Eddie Lamar Gilley

Eddie L. Gilley is the area director for the Baptist Collegiate Ministries in Gainesville, Florida. He has worked with College Students (Collegiates for the sake of distinguishing college and high school students) since 1980 in some capacity. First as a minister of youth and students, then as the director of a ministry to collegiates only in a local church and now for the last twelve years as the BCM director at the University of South Florida for seven and the University of Florida for the last five. He currently works with the Gator baseball and softball teams as their chaplain. He has taught numerous seminars on the subject of college students in the church and how to work with them and written many articles for various publications. He published the book Collegiate Ministry in the Local Church: Implementing The Impossible Mission available from the author. He completed a Doctor of Ministry degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2003.