Name: Dr. Craig A. Loscalzo
Title: Senior Pastor
Email: craigl@ibc-lex.org
Phone: 685-3221 or 685-3222

Dr. Craig A. Loscalzo is the senior pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky, where he has served since 1996. He came to this pastorate from eight years of teaching ministry as the Victor and Louise Lester Associate Professor of Christian Preaching, at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Following four years of active service in the United States Air Force (1968-1972), and eight years of employment with Honeywell, Inc. (1974-1982), as a medical electronics service supervisor, Pastor Craig pursued a call to vocational Christian ministry. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received the Bachelor of Science degree from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He holds the Master of Divinity and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Southern Seminary. He did postdoctoral study as Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee.

Pastor Craig is a popular speaker and conference leader. He has written three books: Apologetic Preaching: Proclaiming Jesus Christ to a Postmodern World; Evangelistic Preaching That Connects; and Preaching Sermons that Connect: Effective Communication through Identification. He has also contributed to several other books and has written numerous articles in both scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Craig writes a regular column about preaching on the Internet called The Online Pulpit. It can be accessed at www.ivpress.com.

He is married to the former Aunchalee Uphasook of Bangkok, Thailand. They have two grown children--Aunchalee Elaine, Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.) and Michael Craig (Louisville, KY.).