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Hoskins to give annual Powell Missions Lecture March 10

Ben Hoskins speaks in a recent chapel service. (Photo by Lyla Dietz)
Ben Hoskins speaks in a recent chapel service. (Photo by Lyla Dietz)

JACKSON, Tenn.March 2, 2026 — Ben Hoskins of the International Mission Board will deliver the W.D. Powell Missions Lecture, entitled “From Everywhere to Everyone: How the Global Church Is Taking the Gospel to the Nations,” at Union University March 10.

Hoskins, a 2002 and 2007 graduate of Union, serves as the IMB’s cluster leader for global Chinese ministry. He graduated from Gateway Baptist Theological Seminary in 2022 with a Doctor of Ministry degree.

Appointed by the IMB in 2008, Hoskins has served in East Asia planting churches, leading teams and training gospel workers. He was a founding member of HIM, an Asian Baptist mission agency

He and his wife Tabitha live in Taiwan with their four children.

Named after a Union alumnus and a pioneer Southern Baptist missionary to Mexico in the late 1800s, the W.D. Powell Missions Lecture Series is co-sponsored by Union’s School of Theology and Missions and the IMB to honor Union alumni who have served in international missions.

Hoskins will deliver his lecture at 3:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium, located in the Barefoot Student Union Building. The event is free and open to the public.


Media contact: Tim Ellsworth, news@uu.edu, 731-661-5215