In His Place

Author Info

Harry C. Griffith is an attorney by education, graduating from the University of Mississippi Law School as Editor-in-Chief of the Mississippi Law Journal and winner of the Phi Delta Phi Award as Outstanding Law Graduate.  After serving in the Army JAG Corps, he became a corporate attorney and then executive, rising to the position of Vice President-Administration, before accepting God's call into fulltime Christian work as a lay person.   He founded the Bible Reading Fellowship in the United States in 1971 and served as its President for 27 years.  He was also Executive Director of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer for eleven years and Executive Officer during the formation years of the Anglican Mission in America.  He was a co-founder of Faith Alive, a lay witnessing ministry, and Adventures in Ministry, a lay ministry organization.   He has had more than 20 books published on a wide range of subjects: prayer, Bible study, evangelism, lay ministry and marriage.  His publishers include Tyndale, Zondervan, Eerdmans, and A. R. Mowbray (England).   Harry has been called a Christian entrepreneur because of his varied and creative ministries over the years.  He is a speaker, writer, teacher, poet, lawyer, business executive, husband, father, grandfather and founder of several Christian and business organizations.  He has also held a wide range of positions in civic, service, business and political organizations.