Rex Horne

Dr. Rex M. Horne, Jr. became the 15^th president of Ouachita Baptist University on June 1, 2006.  Prior to his selection as president by the Ouachita Board of Trustees, he had served as Senior Pastor of Little Rock’s Immanuel Baptist Church for almost 16 years.

Dr. Horne is a graduate of Lyon College (formerly Arkansas College) in Batesville, Arkansas.  He earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and the doctor of ministry degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.  A native of Bastrop, Louisiana, he grew up in Camden, Arkansas.

In addition to his service as pastor of Immanuel, he has pastored churches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.

Dr. Horne currently serves as a trustee for Baptist Health.  He was president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention from 1995 to 1997, and has served as a trustee of Ouachita Baptist University and Lyon College.  For ten years, Dr. Horne was a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He also hosted Conversations, a live talk show which appeared weekly on Victory Television Network.  He has authored three books, “Potluck Dinners and Other People Parables,” “Our Conversations,” and “Insights from Kingdom Builders.”

He is married to Becky Horne, and they have four grown children.