Richard Nations

Richard Nations is a freelance writer for Baptist publications. He is a husband to his wife, Rachel and father to two children who are now adults and are married. He recently retired as the associational mission strategist for the Sandy Creek Baptist Association in Murrayville, Illinois. He is a contributing writer for the The Pathway, the news journal of the Missouri Baptist Convention. He also contributes to the Illinois Baptist, Springfield, Illinois and The Baptist Paper, Birmingham, Alabama. He is an occasional contract appraisal reader for LifeWay Christian Resources and he is the author of “Why Not Me: You Could Be A Bivocational Pastor” (Lulu Press, 2019). He ocassionally contributes articles for Baptist Press, several Sunday school and church growth magazines for LifeWay Christian Resources and he was the publications editor for The Iowa Baptist, the news journal of the Baptist Convention of Iowa.