Teaching Plan Writer
Roberta Watson has worked with StudentLife Bible Study and LifeBibleStudy as a writer and editor since 2004. As a free-lance writer, she specializes in adult and youth Bible studies. She has served the local church in Sunday School, Discipleship, and Women’s Ministry as well as her state convention and local association as a conference speaker, trainer, and education director. She holds a Master of Arts in Christian Education from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where she has served as an Adjunct Professor at the North Georgia campus. She and her husband, Todd, have two adult children. Katie is an elementary school teacher who married her high-school sweetheart Travis. Will is working while pursuing his BBA. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, knitting, and traveling.
Commentary Writer
Dr. Tan Flippin is Pastor of Discipleship at Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas. He has been married to Janet for 32 years and they have two grown children: a son, Drew, and a daughter, Erin, who is married to Aaron King. Tan has been in the ministry since 1983 and has been a youth minister, curriculum editor, seminary professor and administrator, and minister of education. Tan’s hobbies are fishing, biking, reading, and writing. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas; a Master’s degree in Christian Education from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; and a Doctor of Education degree in Christian Leadership from Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Tan accepted Christ when he was eight years old.
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General Editor
Dr. Margie Williamson has served as a writer and editor, seminary professor, associational worker, and minister’s wife. She began writing in 1982 and has written Bible studies and devotions, Christian magazine articles, a training book for teachers of teenagers, academic articles, textbook chapters, and a dissertation. She completed two degrees at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary—a master’s and a Ph.D. in Christian Education. She worked for Clarity Publishing from 2007-2010 as the Executive Editor of LifeBibleStudy for adults and for NavPress as an editor. Currently, she works as an editor and writer of both adult and student curriculum at Life Bible Study. Her favorite thing to do each week is to teach a senior adult Bible study. Margie and her husband, Bob, have two amazing children, two incredible grandchildren, and one dog.