Meet Dwight.
Dr. Dwight Peterson serves as Executive Director at Capital Church in Columbus, Ohio, where he leads operations, pastoral care, and ministry development alongside the senior teaching team. He is also the author of OnTrack Devotions — a daily inductive Bible study, published and used by churches for over three decades, that equips believers to build genuine Bible study skill and personal devotional discipline.
Dwight's doctoral work focused on spiritual formation skill development as an essential part of discipleship in the local church — a thesis that maps directly onto Anchor's conviction that real ministry preparation happens inside the work, not adjacent to it. From 2001 to 2021 he served as a professor at Clarks Summit University (formerly Baptist Bible College), teaching youth ministry, biblical theology, and Christian leadership to undergraduate and graduate students preparing for vocational and bivocational service.
Before academic work, he spent sixteen years in full-time youth ministry at First Baptist Church (Elkhart, IN) and Brookdale Baptist Church (Bloomfield, NJ). Cumulatively across decades, Dwight has also coached basketball and golf at both high school and collegiate levels — work that taught him how skill, discipline, and patient repetition shape people, the same forces that shape disciples and purposefully maintain a gospel presence in the community around him.
Anchor students gain access to a faculty member who has spent his career inside the local church, has authored material used widely for spiritual formation, and teaches from the texture of weekly pastoral responsibility — not theory alone.
He holds a Doctor of Ministry and Master of Ministry from Baptist Bible Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Communication from Grand Rapids Baptist College.
