I was born in Hogansville, Georgia, but I consider Americus, Georgia my home town because my family moved there when I was in the second grade.  I was educated at Georgia Southwestern College, where I earned a B.S. in Business Administration/Management, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where I earned a M.Div. in Pastoral Ministries/Counseling and an Ed.D. in Psychology/Counseling.   While in New Orleans, I was an Alcohol and Drug Counselor at the Brantly Baptist Center where I completed a two-year internship for the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board.  I was also Associate Pastor of Vieux Carre Baptist Church, located in the French Quarter.  Vieux Carre is a French word meaning "Old Quarter".  Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, and the French Quarter  provided great opportunities to study psychology and the ministry.  During my first year at the seminary I met a beautiful Spanish student from Honduras, Dina Espinoza.  Dina and I were married in 1985 while I was in the doctoral program in New Orleans.  From New Orleans Dina and I moved to Alabama where I pastored a church for almost two years.  By this time, I was eager to get back to my home state of Georgia, so when I learned through the Seminary that the South Georgia Baptist Counseling Center was advertising for the position of Director/Counselor, I quickly applied.  Dina and I moved again to Waycross, where I became Director of the Waycross Office and also an itinerant counselor, traveling to offices in Jesup, Hazelhurst, and our main office in Albany.  The traveling, the long hours, the responsibilities of being director, and the emotional drain of the counseling profession were quite a challenge.  My goal and dream from the start of my graduate education was to eventually teach.  So when I learned of an opening at Waycross College, I jumped at the opportunity.  In the Fall Quarter of 1989, I began teaching psychology and sociology and I have been grateful ever since for the blessings of my position.   And on May 13, 1991, my wife and I were blessed with our first and only child, Anthony.
    My interests outside of education and ministry include reading, sight-seeing, photography, fishing, military history, collecting and painting miniature soldiers, science fiction and fantasy, and I have a dream of one day becoming a successful writer.  If you would like to see some photographs I took of our recent trip to Honduras and learn more about my family, click here.

Anthony Hendrix
 

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