Arthur S. Williams was born on Nov. 18, 1931, in Connersville, Indiana, a town of about 15,000. He attended Sunday school and church frequently but was taught only to live by a good moral code and very little about the bible. Through his teen years and onto college at Purdue University he gradually drifted away from religion.In the spring of 1953 he found Christ as his Savior through the witness of a friend at his place of employment. At this time he began to attend Calvary Baptist Church, a fundamental church, in Connersville.Because he desired to get bible training in the fall of 1953 he entered Tennessee Temple Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He met and married Peggie Thompson there in August 1959. In the spring of 1960 he graduated with a BA from Temple. After he had taken some graduate courses he was invited to become an assistant pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Connersville, Indiana, on an interim basis while he was seeking to associate with a mission board. In the spring of 1961 Art moved with his family to Wheaton, Illinois, to train with Open Air Campaigners (O.A.C.) He entered full-time work with OAC in the spring of 1962 and on September 12, 1962, Art Williams was ordained to the ministry of the Gospel by the Calvary Baptist Church of Wheaton, Illinois. Art served with OAC as an evangelist for nearly 30 years. During that period he founded the New Jersey Branch, directed the Greater New York City Branch, served as United States Field Director, and finally, as United States General Director from 1980 until March, 1991.In the spring of 1991 he, with others, planted a fundamental mission, which is called the Bible Open Air Mission. -(BOAM) is totally committed to open-air evangelism and to the great commission and in helping sound local churches. Art is now serving as an evangelist and General Director of B.O.A.M.