Dan Trotter is an NTRF trustee, former editor of The New Reformation Review news letter, a contributing author to Ekklesia, author of Red Neck In Red China, co-sponsor of past small church conferences, team teaches NTRF workshops, planted a church in South Carolina, and since his retirement remains active in a small Baptist church. He has degrees from the University of South Carolina in history, economics, business administration, and law, plus a Master of Arts in Church History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

In addition to their love for their three grown children and several grand-children, Dan and his wife, Linda, have a love for China and its people. He surrendered his tenure at Coker College so as to be able to teach business at colleges in China.