Madeira Baptist Church is honored to host evangelist and apologist Braxton Hunter from Sunday, October 2, 2011, through Wednesday, October 5, 2011.  The Sunday morning service will be held at 10:15 a.m.; the Sunday evening service will be held at 6:45 p.m.; and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening services will each be held at 7:00 p.m.

About Braxton Hunter
Braxton Hunter is a rising star in America as a gifted crusade evangelist, motivational speaker and apologist (defender of the faith).

Though a young man of 30 years of age, Bro. Braxton has already preached in some of the nation's largest and most prestigious churches while sharing the conference stage with such notables as Dr. Stephen Olford, Dr. Peter Lord, Dr. Johnny Hunt, Dr. Junior Hill, Dr. Jerry Vines and Dr. Bobby Moore.  At the 2010 Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Florida, he was elected as the President of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelist.  He is the youngest person ever to be elected to this position.

He has served two churches as senior pastor and both congregations saw dramatic growth.  The latter church, Cornerstone Baptist of McMinnville, Tennessee, grew from an average worship attendance of 275 to 550 in two years.  The church tripled its income under Bro. Braxton's direction and averaged eighty baptisms per year.  He was named Religious Leader of the Year for 2004 in Warren County, Tennessee.

In addition to his remarkable pastoral achievements, Bro. Braxton has conducted large area-wide crusades, television crusades, successful revivals at very large and very small churches alike, and has preached at Trinity Baptist College of Clearwater, Florida, where Billy Graham had previously spoken in chapel.

Bro. Braxton attended Middle Tennessee State University where he met his wife, Sarah, and graduated with honors fro Trinity Theological Seminary of Newburgh, Indiana.  Because of his Grade Point Average there, the nationally recognized Omicron Psi Honor Society invited and accepted him as a member.

Having a heart for teens, Bro. Braxton speaks in high school assembly programs and hold the attention of the entire student body, as few speakers are capable of doing.  He challenges the youth to a noble life devoid of drugs, alcohol and premarital sex.

Record-breaking attendances and decisions for Christ have been the results of each of his crusades and revival meetings.

His sermons on defending the faith are so clear and definitive that he is now in demand to help church members learn how to battle the anti-Christian culture with a skilled use of the Word of God.  He has written a book entitled Blinding Lights:  the glaring evidences of the Christian faith in which he gives helps to the believer to know what he believes and why.  His forthcoming work, Death Is a Doorway, will be released this fall.

Braxton Hunter is now the Evangelist and Director of Trinity Crusade for Christ, a nationally recognized organization that was founded in 1991 by Dr. Harold Hunter.  Since that date, this ministry that Braxton now leads has seen over 67,800 decisions for Christ and shared teen suicide presentations to over 1.1 million.

Braxton currently resides with his wife Sarah and his daughter Jolie in Evansville, Indiana.