Meet Dr. ToNY WOLFE
South Carolina Baptist Convention
Executive Director-Treasurer-Elect
About Dr. Wolfe
Dr. Tony Wolfe is the Associate Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention where he has served churches and church leaders since May 2017. In his 23 years of ministry experience, he has served Southern Baptist churches in Texas and Louisiana as a denominational leader, interim pastor, pastor, worship leader, Christian educator, and pastoral counselor. Tony is passionate about strengthening churches, raising up church leaders, and mobilizing Christ’s people to reach their neighbors and the nations with the gospel. He is personally committed to biblical inerrancy, strategic evangelism, cooperative missions, expositional preaching, and team-based leadership.
Tony holds degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and Lamar University and is currently in the final stages of earning a Ph.D. in Evangelism and Missions from Southwestern, researching confessionalism and cooperation in Baptist history from 1609-1925. He enjoys fishing, reading, writing, and a good LSU Tigers football game in his free time. Tony and Vanessa were married on April 14, 2001, and have two sons: Ethan (20), a youth pastor in Oklahoma and a student at Oklahoma Baptist University, and Aaron (16), completing his junior year in High School.
Dr. Wolfe will begin his role as Executive Director-Treasurer on April 1, 2023.

Education
(2024) - Doctor of Philosophy: Evangelism and Missions, SWBTS (in progress)
2016 - Doctor of Educational Ministry: Leadership, SWBTS
2010 - Master of Arts in Religion: Pastoral Counseling, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
2005 - Bachelor of Music, Lamar University
Credentials
2012 - Ordained by Calvary Baptist Church Rosenberg, TX
2004 - Licensed by Ridgewood Baptist Church Port Arthur, TX
Honors and Denominational Service
2022 - Present Lifeway Christian Resources Board of Trustees
2022 - W. Oscar Thompson Evangelism Award, SWBTS
2021-2022 - Executive Committee Member, Criswell College
2019 - Teller’s Committee, SBC
2018 - Credentials Committee, SBC
2014-2017 - Executive Board, SBTC
2012-2017 - Moderator and Committees Chair, Neches River Baptist Association
2016 - R. Othal Feather Award for Evangelism in Education, SWBTS
2012-2014 - Board of Trustees, Pineywoods Baptist Encampment