Honoring the Scholars and Servants Behind Our Curriculum
Recognizing the faithful men whose wisdom and dedication shaped the foundation of our educational resources.
Dr. Ed Tutton
Founder and Senior Editor of Teaching All Nations, Fundamental Baptist Missions International missionary
Both Ed and Carolyn grew up in Christian homes. Carolyn was saved when she was eight years old in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Ed was saved at the age of fourteen in Buffalo, New York. They met at Bob Jones University and were married soon after graduation in 1967.
They planned to go to the mission field, but God had other plans for them. Their mission board requested that they wait a year before starting their deputation. During that year, the pastor of their home church asked them to start a Christian school. This began a thirty-year adventure, working in the area of Christian education. Carolyn became a teacher, supervisor, and principal while Ed established and directed both Christian schools and Bible colleges in America.
Their calling to become missionaries was realized in 2004 when they were asked to join Team China, a missions team sent from First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. Their assignment was to win souls and write the curriculum for English training schools. On their thirty-eighth wedding anniversary, they left to serve as missionaries in Jilin, China, where they saw hundreds saved and many baptized and added to house churches.
Three years later, they traveled to Kumasi, Ghana, to establish the Hyles-Anderson College of West Africa. It was in Ghana, Africa, working with Adam Ogle and his family, that they realized that the great need in world missions was to close the gap between world evangelism and global church planting by training a larger number of men in their own communities and cultures to go to the “next towns” and start mission works. From this need, Ed and Adam got a vision to produce the Teaching All Nations program which is now being used to train men around the world, using the biblical model introduced by Christ in the New Testament. This FREE three-to-four-year program is a step-by-step Bible college curriculum organized into 150 lessons, using the question-and-answer method to find answers in the Word of God.
As pastors in America became familiar with TAN, they asked for a similar program to be made available to teach their own people. Due to their continued requests, the Teaching Our People Bible program has been incorporated into the overall TAN program while using the same format. The same concepts which have been used to strengthen the spiritual lives of people in foreign countries are now available to be used in our churches in America.
In their fifty-second year of marriage, Ed and Carolyn are still serving the Lord by providing Bible-training materials to missionaries (TAN) and to pastors in America (TOP).
Dr. Philip Pins
June 20, 1947 - June 7, 2024
Phil Pins went home to be with the Lord on Friday, June 7, 2024. Philip John Pins was born to Albert and Esther Pins on June 20, 1947, in Dubuque, Iowa.
He met his wife, Joyce, in college, and they have been married for 55 years. Together, they have four children and 13 grandchildren.
Phil grew up in the town of Dyersville, Iowa. He helped his family on their acreage and was the oldest of six children. He was a starter on the high school football team and was nicknamed "Bear Paws" by some due to the size of his hands.
While in his second year of college, his father had a stroke that required Phil to leave school and come home to help provide for the family.
He later completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. His patriotism led him to volunteer during the Vietnam War, and he was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Army toward the very end of the war.
Phil trusted Christ as his Saviour in 1975 while working in St. Paul, Minnesota. He felt God’s call to ministry in 1980 while attending the First Baptist Church of Rosemount, Minnesota. After their pastor recommended he consider attending Hyles-Anderson College, Phil and Joyce moved to Indiana in August 1981.
While attending college, he began working in the Asian community in Chicago, reaching Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees. He completed the Pastor’s Refresher Course in 1983 and a Master of Education degree in 1984. He was asked to teach Greek in the fall of 1984. Phil was awarded an honorary doctorate from Hyles-Anderson College in 2015.
Phil served as the Asian ministry leader at the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, for 40 years. He reached Asians of many nationalities, especially many Chinese in the last 25 years. He has been on many mission trips, seven of which have been to China. He is known for his passion to share the Gospel.
While teaching at Hyles-Anderson College, Phil ran a side lawn care business. He was known by his employees as a tireless worker and a kind leader. His sense of humor was not seen by most due to his reserved manner, but those who worked alongside him got to enjoy this endearing side. His mowing company was responsible for mowing over 100,000 yards, and he had one customer for whom he mowed for over 25 consecutive years.
Phil taught Greek, Hebrew, Bible, English, and linguistics for 40 years at Hyles-Anderson College. His goal was to prepare Christian workers who would rightly divide God’s Word as they served throughout the world.
Phil’s favorite Bible verse was II Timothy 2:15: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
His life was marked by consistency in his walk with God, by his passion for winning souls, by his love for his wife and family, by his genuineness, and by his commitment to integrity.
Phil is survived by his wife, Joyce (Schares); his four children: daughter, Emily (James) Riley; daughter, Bridget (Derek) Morgan; son, John (Jennifer) Pins; daughter, Esther (Robert) Osgood; his thirteen grandchildren: Meghan (Jacob) Bayliss, Alyssa Riley, Kaitie Pins, JP Riley, Travis Pins, Trevor Morgan, Ethan Osgood, Levi Osgood, Grant Morgan, Brooklyn Pins, Stacy Osgood, Eric Osgood, and Russell Pins; his siblings: sister, Kathy (Terry) Telger; sister, Mary (Lee) Walters; sister, Betty (Ray) Flores; brother, Tim (Mary) Pins; and brother, Chris (Sharon) Pins; his in-law siblings: Russ and Connie (Schares) Exstrom and John and Nancy (Schares) Jacobs; and many nieces, nephews, and dear friends.