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Dr. T.E. VanBuskirk is the founder and President of The Foundation for Biblical Studies and President of Salt Lake Baptist College/Salt Lake Bible College- providing free Bible education worldwide. The Foundation exists to help finance the college and from 2009 to 2017 over 12,000 students have studied online with an average of 500 students studying at any one time and an average of 200 graduates per year through online and on-campus courses as well as through SLBCs many Study Centers around the world.

Born in 1945 in Ellensburg, Washington, Doc Van was a professional musician from the age of 14 until the age of 40 entertaining under the stage name of Terry Vee. After receiving Christ as Saviour in 1985 he began serving in local churches in the Gospel Music Ministry; authoring more than 50 gospel songs and playing guitar and performing them from Texas to Alaska. In 1982 he began his studies at Texas Baptist Bible College and received a Bachelor of Theology in 1985. Completing his studies with Texas Baptist Bible College distance learning program and completing further studies with Salt Lake Baptist College he received his Master Degree of Theology from Salt Lake Baptist College in 1994 and a Doctor of Literature degree in 1995. Four years later, in 1999, he received a Doctor Degree of Theology from Salt Lake Baptist College.

While in Bible College in Texas he served as Associate Pastor and and Music Director from 1980 to 1983 and in 1984 started a mission Church in Coppell, Texas, which he pastored for 1 year until graduating from College. After graduation, in 1985, he moved back to his home state of Washington and pastored a church in Port Angeles, WA, for a little over a year in which he reunited the two factions of the church which had split the year before. Serving once again in the itinerant Music Ministry for several years, in 1990 he joined the staff as Associate Pastor and Music Director at Bible Baptist Church in what was to become Taylorsville City, and served as a professor at Salt Lake Baptist College and remained there for two years. In 1992 he moved to Butte, Montana, to pastor a church and from there he moved to Renton, WA, in 1993 and served as Associate Pastor and Music Director in a small church and founded and operated a Christian School, Renton Educational Co-op, for 4 years. Moving back to the Salt Lake Valley in 1997 he pastored a church in Ogden Utah from then until 2001. In 2000 his wife, Bonnie, was diagnosed with cancer and in 2001 they moved to Taylorsville, Utah, because, by that time, she required around the clock care. While serving there as Associate Pastor, Music Director, and Vice President of SLBC, his wife, Bonnie, went on to Heaven in 2002. In 2004 Dr. Van was diagnosed with Colon cancer and had surgery to remove the tumor. In 2004 he married Gracia and they remained on staff at Bible Baptist Church. In 2014 Doc Van became the president of Salt Lake Baptist College and started the online arm, Salt Lake Bible College in 2009 and founded The Foundation for Biblical Studies the same year. He remained at Bible Baptist Church as Associate Pastor and Music and Video Director. In 2020 Salt Lake Bible College (Video) was instituted and began educating students via live and archive lectures on the internet. Dr. VanBuskirk continued to run the online Bible Colleges as well as the Salt Lake Baptist College campus until 2022. At that time he was ordered by the sponsoring church's new pastor to shut down the online presence of Salt Lake Baptist College and remove it from the internet. Leaving Bible Baptist Church and Salt Lake Baptist College he then became the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. In that year, 2022, he founded Heritage Baptist College through which he reinstituted online studies for new students as well as access for those current students who no longer had online access to Salt Lake Baptist College. Salt Lake Bible College, Heritage Baptist College, and Salt Lake Bible College (Video), are still in operation and educating students internationally as well as at their campus at Heritage Baptist Church in Salt Lake City.

Dr. VanBuskirk (Doc Van) has authored over 60 textbooks, workbooks and short studies, and written several dozen gospel music compositions and produced, performed, and recorded 6 gospel music CDs as well as teaching and producing hundreds of television programs and online lecture-video courses for SLBCV.