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Craig Newborn was born in Seven Springs, North Carolina. He completed his college education at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, earning a B.A. in history and religion and an M.A. in history with a secondary education emphasis. Thereafter, he spent four and a half years as a Bible teacher at San Diego Academy before accepting a call to overseas missionary work.  He served more than 14 years in Kenya, Iran, and Lebanon in varying capacities, including church pastor, Bible teacher, evangelist, field president, departmental director, and university chaplain.

After returning to the U.S., he accepted a teaching position at Loma Linda Academy in Loma Linda, California.  While teaching at Loma Linda Academy, he also earned an M.A. in Theology and a Ph.D. in Theology and Personality from Claremont School of Theology.  In 1997, Dr. Newborn moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where he became the Vice President for Student Services at Oakwood University.  From January 1999 through August 2006, he was the founding Director of the Oakwood Branch Office of the Ellen G. White Estate and was also a professor in Oakwood University’s Department of Religion and Theology.
 
On August 26, 2006, he was installed as the Senior Pastor of the Oakwood University Church.   He is married to Janis Stephens Newborn, Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Oakwood University, and they have two adult children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and three grandchildren.  He and his wife are avid birdwatchers.

Books that Pastor Newborn recommends for reading:

• Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire
• The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwandan Tragedy and the Churches, Hugh McCullum
• Eyewitnesses to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
• The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Richard Lischer