Nick Kalivoda served as a lecturer in Bible and Bible Archeology in Louisiana State University’s Continuing Education Program  for more than ten years and has been the teacher of the Campus Bible Class each Sunday morning in the University’s Faculty Club.  He also teaches the daily Radio Bible Courses program which has been giving expository teaching to audiences in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast states since 1986.

The Radio Bible Courses has promoted understanding of the Bible through home bible classes, seminary courses on videotape, New Testament Greek, and evangelism training for lay persons.

Kalivoda earned a B.A. degree in Bible archeology at Wheaton College (Illinois), a Master of Journalism degree from Louisiana State University, and studied at Dallas Theological Seminary from 1948 – 1951.  Western Conservative Seminary in Portland, Oregon, honored him in 1994 by conferring the honorary Doctor of Laws degree for “distinguished Christian service” as a layman.  He is the first layman to be so honored.

He has directed 16 Bible Lands tours, visiting both archaeological and biblical sites in Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Greece and its Islands.  He is author of “Grace,” and “Heaven’s Password,” the latter translated into Chinese and Spanish, along with 30 Bible courses on cassette tapes.  He has taught Bible classes in Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Bible Churches in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kalivoda served as Religion Editor of the “Morning Advocate,” the newspaper of Louisiana’s capital city, 1981 – 1983, and is former public relations spokesman for LSU.  He retired in 1984 following a career as director of the University’s Office of Media Services.  He served in leadership positions in both regional and national public relations organizations and was a member of the Organizing Board of Directors of the National Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

For many years he served on the Steering Committee for the annual Louisiana Governor’s Prayer Breakfast and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Medical Centers of West Africa, a Baton Rouge-based missionary organization.  In 1987 he was honored with the “layman of the Year Award” by the Mid-South District Kiwanis International.

He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Grace Evangelical Society.

He is a World War II veteran, retiring from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.  He was a member of the U.S. track team from Okinawa who competed in the Allied Track and Field Meet in Shanghai in 1946, competing in the javelin throw and the hurdles.