Leadership

Gerald Hiestand – Executive Director

Gerald has served as the SAET board president since 2006, and was hired part-time as the executive director in the fall of 2008.  Gerald has degrees from Moody Bible Institute and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has been in pastoral ministry for nearly seven years, and serves currently as the Senior Associate Pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park. Gerald has written a number of scholarly articles (Trinity Journal, Westminster Journal) and has a research interest in historical soteriology and ecclesial theology. His article “Ecclesial Theology and Academic Theology: Why We Need More of the Former” (Reformation 21), provides a concise overview of the SAET’s theological vision for ecclesial theology. Gerald is also the author of Raising Purity: Helping Parents Understand the Bible’s Perspective on Sex, Dating, and Relationships (Iustificare Press, 2009), and along with Jay Thomas, Pure Relationship: Helping Singles Understand the Bible’s Perspective on Sex, Dating and Relationships (Crossway, forthcoming). Gerald and his wife, Jill, have three children.

Dr. Todd Wilson – Associate Director

Todd is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and has served on the SAET board since 2006. Todd has a B.A. in Philosophy, an M.A. in Biblical Exegesis, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Cambridge University. In addition to being the author of several scholarly articles in the area of New Testament studies, he is also the author of The Curse of the Law and the Crisis in Galatia (Mohr-Siebeck), Paul’s Life and Letters (Lion Publishing), and coeditor (with Leland Ryken) of Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching: In Honor of Dr. R. Kent Hughes (Crossway). He and his wife, Katie, both grew up in Carmel, Indiana and have five children.

SAET Board

Gerald Hiestand, Executive Director, President
Dr. Todd Wilson, Associate Director, Vice President
Jonathan Cummings, Symposium Coordinator, Secretary
William Edmondson, Treasurer
Dr. John Yates

SAET Senior Mentors

Dr. Scott Hafemann, Senior Mentor, First SAET Fellowship
Dr. Douglas A. Sweeney, Senior Mentor, Second SAET Fellowship