Kenneth Zed EllisonKen Zed Ellison came from a blue-collar working family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Educated at Bluefield College, Carson-Newman College (now University) and New Orleans Baptist Seminary, Ken holds doctorates from New Orleans Seminary andAsia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary. Early pastorates were in Virginia, Louisiana and Georgia. He serves as Pastor Emeritus of the Eastside Baptist Church, where as the founding pastor of the church, he served seven years before working in Southeast Asia. With his wife, Mary, and two children, Brent and Melissa, he spent thirty-two years in overseas mission service with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as evangelist, church planter and theological educator. Read More Read Less