Dr. Larry W. Draper has served as full-time evangelist under the auspices of Sound the Trumpet Ministries, Inc. since March 1995. Moody Adams said, "Few men have brought to the field of evangelism the distinction of having served 32 years as a full-time pastor."

Sound the Trumpet Ministries is a worldwide evangelistic ministry pledged to focus at least one-tenth of its efforts on foreign missions and the remainder in the United States.

Dr. Draper has made thirty two mission trips to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus for the purpose of establishing churches and providing training for pastors in the former Soviet bloc. He has also helped train pastors in Ecuador, in Haiti, and in Nepal where it is against the law even to be a Christian. Dr. Draper has conducted, and continues to conduct, evangelistic crusades across America.

A graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Draper attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He received the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministries degrees from Luther Rice Seminary in Jacksonville, Florida. A former minister of music, Dr. Draper served local churches for 32 years as pastor, which include Woodland Park Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Roebuck Park Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama; and West Rome Baptist Church , Rome, Georgia.

This year, 2010, marks his forty-ninth year in preaching the gospel. He is married to the former Sandra Harper of Birmingham, Alabama. Their daughters, Kelli and Kim, also reside in Rome.