Dr. Matt Henslee

Collin Baptist Association elected Dr. Matt Henslee as Executive Director/Associational Missionary on August 12, 2021. Dr. Henslee is the husband of Rebecca (for just over 17 years now), and they have the joy of raising four daughters they adopted in 2015. The Henslees reside in Farmersville and serve First Baptist Church of Farmersville where Matt is the Assistant Preaching Pastor.

In addition to serving over seven years as a senior pastor, Henslee brings fifteen years of experience as a student, children, education, or worship pastor in churches in various contexts and sizes. All told, his experiences range from young church plants to established churches, and everything in between in over 22 years.

Dr. Henslee graduated from Dallas Baptist University with his BA in 2006 and MDiv and DMin from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2015 and 2021, respectively. He maintains a close relationship with SWBTS as an adjunct professor of church revitalization and leads the Hemphill Center for Church Revitalization. Henslee authored God Can Save Me?, Jonah Over Coffee, Text-Driven Invitation, Evangelize to Revitalize, Path for PEACE, and co-authored Replanting Rural Churches and The People Walking in Darkness with Dr. Kyle Bueermann. He is a fixture at Lifeway Research and NAMB Replant blogs, but also has bylines at Religion News Service, Washington Post, Baptist Press, SWBTS’ Preaching Source, Biblical Recorder, SEBTS’ Pastor Center, Baptist New Mexican, Southern Baptist Texan, Baptist Courier, The Aquila Report, and more.

In addition to over two decades of ministry experience, Henslee has served Southern Baptists in several capacities. He previously led Mountain Valley Baptist Association’s church planting efforts, served the Baptist Convention of New Mexico as the 2nd vice president from 2018-2019, and then as 1st vice president from 2020-2021. He served as the managing editor of LifeWay Pastors from 2018-2020 and on the Credentials Committee at the 2019 Annual Meeting in Birmingham. More recently, Dr. Henslee served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference in 2022, and on the Leadership Council of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Currently, he co-hosts Not Another Baptist Podcast and The Potluck Podcast, two podcasts under one channel that aim to encourage pastors (NABP) and share SBC news and views (TPP).