Shane Pruitt serves as National Next Gen Director for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and, beginning in spring 2025, as a student ministry instructor in the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries at Southwestern, team-teaching student ministry courses alongside senior professor Richard Ross. God saved Pruitt when he was twenty-one years old, and he surrendered to ministry leadership at twenty-three. He has served in vocational ministry for more than twenty years as a student pastor, teaching pastor, church planter, lead pastor, and denominational evangelism director.

Pruitt is a traveling communicator, evangelist, and Bible teacher who speaks to more than one hundred thousand people each year about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the author of several books and Bible studies and co-hosts The GenSend Podcast. His articles have been featured by RELEVANT, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, The Gospel Coalition, Crosswalk, Church Leaders, and Baptist Press, and he is a monthly guest on the nationally syndicated Point of View Radio Show. Pruitt and his wife, Kasi, have been married for twenty years and live in Rockwall, Texas, with their six children.