Charles L. Surrett, B.A., M.R.E., M.Div., D.Min, taught preaching courses at Ambassador Baptist College for twenty-eight years.  He also served as a youth pastor for ten years and as a senior pastor for thirty-five years.  He pastored Rose Park Baptist Church of Holland, MI, Dyer Baptist Church of Dyer, IN, and Emmanuel Baptist Church of Kings Mountain, NC.  He not only taught and pastored simultaneously, but he has also held various administrative positions at Ambassador.