Dr. Phil Fernandes is the senior pastor of Trinity Bible Fellowship and the president of the Institute of Biblical Defense. Fernandes founded the Institute of Biblical Defense in 1990 to help train Christians in their defense of the faith. He also teaches Bible, philosophy, and world religions at Crosspoint Academy and the Gateway School of Ministry in Bremerton, WA. He has completed doctoral work in philosophy of religion (Greenwich University) and is currently completing doctoral work in apologetics ministry (Southern Evangelical Seminary). He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, and the International Society of Christian Apologetics.