Daniel K. Hicks

Daniel Hicks serves as the Chief University Advancement Officer at Bob Jones University. He received his B.A. in history and M.A. in church history from BJU and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1997. He is licensed attorney in North Carolina and South Carolina and currently serves on the North Carolina State Bar Legislative Committee and has been appointed to the North Carolina Bar Estate Planning Council for 2006-2007. He is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, a national peer-review rating service for attorneys, which is the highest mark an attorney can receive, indicating that he or she has attained the highest level of competence and ethics in his or her field. He was recognized by Who’s Who 2006 for achievement in the legal profession. Daniel is married to Dr. Amy Hicks, a biochemist at Wake Forest University, and they have one son.

C. Stanley Eby: President

Stan Eby holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in voice performance from Bob Jones University and a doctorate in voice performance from Boston University. He is an ordained minister and has many years experience as a minister of music. He has taught music on every level from elementary to graduate school. He is presently on the faculty at BJU where he teaches singing and vocal pedagogy and conducts the Chamber String Orchestra. In December 2007, Dr. Eby sang the title role in Simeon, a new Christian opera composed by Dr. Dwight Gustafson. In 2012 he will conduct his fourth major opera production at BJU. He is married and has three children and 2 grandchildren.

Timothy Fisher: Executive Director

Dr. Tim Fisher is wellknown for his work in several different fields of musical endeavor. After receiving both a B.A. and an M.A. degree from Bob Jones University, he taught there on the music faculty for nine years. While a student and a faculty member, he spent his summers and weekends traveling to local churches ministering the Word of God in song. Tim has sung in well over one thousand churches all over the United States and in several foreign countries. Deborah grew up in Finland as the child of missionaries, and received a B.A. and an M.A. in voice performance from BJU. Tim and Deborah are the parents of a daughter, Christina Elizabeth, born in April 1992, and are members of Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC, where Tim serves on the pastoral staff as minister of music. Tim received an honorary doctorate from Bob Jones University in the spring of 2003.

In 1988 Tim founded Sacred Music Services, an organization dedicated to providing sacred recordings for the home. In this capacity Tim uses his abilities as both an arranger and a producer to bring together a variety of groups including a children's choir, an orchestra, a men's choir, and a brass choir. Sacred Music Services has achieved a reputation for producing some of the finest traditional sacred recordings available today.

As a speaker Tim travels to churches, conferences, Christian colleges, and high schools to discuss the issues of Scripture and music. He is author of The Battle For Christian Music (1992), a book that grew out of a need the author saw to address some of these musical issues in more detail. In the fall of 1999 he released a second book called Harmony At Home, addressing musical issues as they relate to home and individual worship. In 1994 Tim was instrumental in starting Discover Christian Music, a company which is dedicated to the distribution of a wide variety of conservative sacred recordings.

Tim brings a unique but biblical perspective to the often controversial subject of Christian music. His involvement as a teacher, a singer, an arranger, a producer of more than 200 sacred recordings, and a student of the Bible gives him the background needed to address many different areas of musical concern today.

David A. Smith, CPA: Treasurer

David is a 1984 graduate of Bob Jones University, where he earned a BS in accounting. He began his public accounting career in 1988 and is currently a partner in the CPA firm of Martin Smith & Company, CPAs, PA, located in Greenville, South Carolina. He was licensed as a CPA in 1989, and is a member of the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. His primary fields of practice are audit and tax, including corporate, individual and non-profit organizations. He is married and has two children.