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Post Office Box 1451

Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32549

(850) 936-0482

ulf Coast Bible Institute is a ministry of Gulf Coast Baptist Church in Fort
Walton Beach, Florida. Our staff, including the Board of Directors, is
composed mainly of volunteers. They are faithful members of the church and
consider their work in GCBI as their ministry unto the Lord. This enables us
to keep our overhead to a minimum and still provide a quality education.

Dr. M. H. Tabb, M.R.E., Th.D. - President & Founder / Director:

Dr. Tabb, the Pastor of Gulf Coast Baptist Church, founded the Bible
Institute in 1987 to train and prepare preachers for the ministry. He received
his B.A. from Pensacola Christian College. His postgraduate work was
done at Covington Theological Seminary, from which he earned the M.R.E.
and Doctor of Theology degrees.

Dr. James E. Wagner, B.R.E., D.B.S. - Dean:

Dr. Wagner is the Associate Pastor of Gulf Coast Baptist Church, Principal of
the Christian School, and is Dean of GCBI. He received his B.R.E. from
Covington Theological Seminary. He earned his D.B.S. from Gulf Coast
Bible Institute.

Dr. David Turner, B.A., D.B.S. - Prison Curriculum Coordinator:

Dr. Turner is a Missionary and Director of Gulf Coast Prison Ministries, a
ministry of Gulf Coast Baptist Church. He serves GCBI as our Prison
Curriculum Coordinator. GCBI has satellite Bible institutes in state and
privately run prisons in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. He earned his B.A.
from the University of West Florida and his D.B.S. from Gulf Coast Bible
Institute.

olunteers enable GCBI to provide a quality Bible education at a fraction of
the cost of attending a resident college. These volunteers are all faithful
members of Gulf Coast Baptist Church and provide their time and talents as a
ministry to the Lord. These ladies work tirelessly every week transcribing,
duplicating tapes, packaging UNITs, grading courses, mailing materials, and
sorting bulk mail. We praise the Lord for their invaluable help.

Mrs. Tabb oversees all the ladies that
volunteer to help in the Bible Institute. She
also handles enrollment applications,
financial services, and mailings.

Mrs. Hatton is one of our graders and
also provides photography services at our
graduation exercises each year. She also
grades the thesis work.

Mrs. Garrett transcribes study tapes so
the studies can be edited and put into
book form. She is also one of our
graders.

Mrs. Hofmann runs the tape duplicators
that create the study tapes used in our
curriculum. She also packages the UNITs
and is one of our graders.

Pastor Robert L. Cheek, Th.G., B.B.S. - Webmaster:

Pastor Cheek is the pastor of Victory Baptist Church in Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania and a graduate of GCBI. He volunteers his time as our
webmaster. He earned his Th.G. and B.B.S. from Gulf Coast Bible Institute.