Prentice Meador (1938–2008)

DR. PRENTICE MEADOR JR., a Lipscomb University professor and former senior minister at Prestoncrest Church of Christ in Dallas Texas.

For more than 40 years, Dr. Meador was a minister serving large churches in California, Illinois, Missouri, Washington, Tennessee and Texas. Most recently, he spent 19 years at Prestoncrest and left in 2007 to return to his alma mater in Tennessee to teach.

Dr. Meador grew up in Nashville and began preaching at age 15, a calling he continued throughout his academic career. His ministry was not always in churches; sometimes it was on the campus of a major state university, on a nationally syndicated television show or in other countries.

A 1960 graduate of Lipscomb University in Tennessee, he later earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois. He taught communications at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Washington, Southwest Missouri State University and Abilene Christian University. He was a member of the Lipscomb University and Abilene Christian University boards of trustees.

The author of three books, Dr. Meador was a panelist for The American Religious Town Hall Meeting, a syndicated television program, which debuted in 1952.

In 1992, Dr. Meador became managing editor of 21st Century Christian Magazine.

He had a universal interest in evangelism. During his ministry in Dallas, he made eight trips to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to preach the gospel as the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.