Paul David Washer (born 1961) is an American Protestant Christian evangelist with a Calvinist theology affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Biography Washer reports converting to Christianity while studying at the University of Texas at Austin to become an oil and gas lawyer.[5][6] He moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years.[7] In 1988, while in Peru,[8] Washer founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support indigenous missionaries witnessing to people of their own cultures.[9][10] As of 2017, the organization supported 238 missionary families in 41 countries.[11]
Washer later returned to the United States, and has resided in Radford, Virginia, since 2010,[12][13][14] where he continues as the missions director of HeartCry.[15]
Washer is sometimes identified as part of the New Calvinism movement,[16][17] although he has expressed concerns with this movement.[18][19][17][20
