Watchman Fellowship president to speak at Tecumseh church

James Walker, the president of Watchman Fellowship, will be the guest speaker at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday at Tecumseh’s First Baptist Church, 301 S. Broadway.
Walker is a former fourth-generation Mormon with more than 20 years of ministry experience in the field of Christian counter-cult evangelism, apologetics and discernment. He has been interviewed as an expert on new religious movements and cults on a variety of network television programs, including “Nightline,” “World News Tonight” and “The News Hour.”
On Sunday morning, Walker will speak on “Counterfeit Christianity” and at 6 p.m. his topic is “From Mormonism to Christianity.” Both presentations are free and open to the public.
Walker holds a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies and a master’s in theology from The Criswell College in Dallas. He serves on the faculties of Arlington Baptist College and The Criswell College as adjunct professor and co-teaches an annual workshop on alternative religions at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Baptist minister and a member of the Society for the Study of Alternative Religions, the Evangelical Press Association, and serves on the board of directors of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions.
In addition to network television, Walker has been interviewed as an authority on alternative religions and cults on numerous nationwide Christian radio programs. These include “Truths that Transform” with Dr. D. James Kennedy, “Hope for the Heart” with June Hunt, “Open Line” with Kirby Anderson on the Moody Broadcasting Network, and Marlin Maddoux’s “Point of View.” He also hosted a video training program on witnessing to Mormons for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Walker was born in 1955 to a Mormon family in Jacksonville, Fla. He left the Mormon Church and, in 1984, he joined the staff of Watchman Fellowship, becoming president of the organization in 1994. Watchman Fellowship is a nonprofit educational organization headquartered in Arlington, Texas, with additional offices around the country and in Romania. Watchman Fellowship is an apologetics and discernment ministry that provides research and evaluation on cults, the occult and new religious movements from a traditional Christian perspective.
Walker is involved with evangelism and apologetics in a variety of related fields, including Mormonism, the New Age Movement, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Way International, Armstrongism, the Unification Church, Christian Science, Satanism and the occult.
He teaches and preaches throughout the world in churches, colleges, and universities. He also has spoken at the chapel services of a number of seminaries, including Denver Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Romanian Baptist Seminary in Oradea, Romania.
In addition to teaching, he has organized and participated in evangelistic outreaches at Jehovah’s Witnesses’ district conventions, Mormon temple openings and pageants and New Age events.