Trustees Emeriti
Hardy S. Clemons
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Hardy S. Clemons
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Hardy S. Clemons, trustee emeritus, is a native of Lubbock, Texas, and 1955 graduate of Texas Tech University with a degree in education. He later earned bachelor of divinity and doctor of theology degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He converted his Th.D. to a Ph.D. in 1975 at Texas Tech, where he studied the links between the fields of psychology and theology. He did postdoctoral work at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. From 1961 to 1967, he was senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Texas, and for the next 21 years he served in the same capacity at Second Baptist Church of Lubbock, Texas. In 1988, he became senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Greenville, from which he retired in January 2000. He returned to San Antonio, Texas, where he became executive pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, from which he retired in August 2008. He plans to continue a general ministry of preaching, writing and counseling and is also doing some executive coaching.
Active in denominational and community affairs, he has been the moderator and a member of the executive committee of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and has taught at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Ruschlikon, Switzerland. He co-chaired the Religious Liberty Council of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs and is the author of Saying Hello to Your Life After Grief, published by Smyth and Helwys. He is a recipient of the Wayne Oates Lifetime Achievement Award for Pastoral Care and Counseling, given annually by the Wayne E. Oates Institute. He also received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Furman in 1994.
He and his wife, Ardelle, have a daughter, Kay, two married grandchildren, and one great granddaughter, Hannah Watt.
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