Glen R Needham

Dr. Glen Needham is a biologist with specialized training in Entomology and Acarology (mites & ticks).
B.S. Biology, SW Oklahoma State University
M.S. & Ph.D. in Entomology at Oklahoma State University. Faculty member at Ohio State University since 1978 teaching biology, entomology and acarology, including the Acarology Summer Program, while doing research on physiology, ecology, behavior and control of ticks, honey bee mites and house dust mites.

Personal Story

Five significant events punctuated my spiritual life in 1995.

• I took my 8 year-old son to Africa and we stayed with missionaries for a week;
• I went to Egypt where I walked up Mt. Sinai (Moses Mountain) on Easter morning;
• I went on an Emmaus walk;
• I read a little book, Christianity: The Faith That Makes Sense, which satisfied a lot of my serious concerns about the Bible.
• Finally, I got involved in the Faculty Christian Fellowship on campus at the invitation of a colleague.

These experiences collectively drove a head knowledge of Christ about 12 inches down to my heart. Since then I have had an insatiable desire to know God in a personal way.

The university should actually be the natural venue for exchange of ideas and beliefs like this. Currently I meet with two guys from my building on campus for an hour at lunch time to discuss current events from a Christian perspective, and to study the Bible. A similar group of women has started recently.

I now attend a Bible-believing church with my family. We have started a small group that meets in our home weekly. Welcome, worship, word and witness form the basis of the gathering we call a TLC group.