Terry Moffitt, Ph.D.
Board Chairman – Family Policy Network, Inc.
After twelve years of teaching Government, Understanding the Times, Economics, World and American History, and Physics to high school students, Terry Moffitt served for eight years as the principal of Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, North Carolina. During that time, the school became the largest Wesleyan school in the world. In 1989, Moffitt was elected to the High Point City Council. During his three year tenure on Council, he drafted and passed North Carolina’s first Adult Entertainment Ordinance containing licensing provisions. Since that time the ordinance has been used in more than 80 cities across the country to control sexually oriented businesses. In 1993, Moffitt traveled to Eastern Europe to teach Russian teachers and administrators how to establish courses in Biblical Morals and Ethics in Russian public schools and colleges at the request of the Russian government. Since that time, over 80 million Russian students have taken the course. In December 1994, the House Committee on Education and Labor enlisted Moffitt to help establish and prioritize the education agenda of the 104th Congress. In 1995, Moffitt served as the East Region Director for the Alan Keyes for President ’96 campaign committee. In 1997, Moffitt spent time in Croatia and Bosnia visiting orphanages and refugee camps in the aftermath of the war in Bosnia.
Moffitt has appeared as an invited guest on numerous television and radio shows, including ABC’s “Nightline,” Fox News Channel’s “FoxWire” and “Fox and Friends;” and NBC’s “Today” program. He received an Angel Award in 1995 for Inspirational Programming and has written for publications such as Charisma Magazine, The Pathfinder and The Carolina Christian News. Moffitt is also an Adjunct Professor of School Law in the graduate program at Columbia International University and teaches the Political Action major each summer at the Summit at Bryan College.
Dr. Moffitt received his BA in Secondary Social Studies Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while playing basketball on a sports scholarship. He earned an M.Ed. in Educational Administration and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a PhD from Jacksonville Theological Seminary. Dr. Moffitt and his wife live in High Point, North Carolina.