President Tim Tennent will be speaking. President Tennent became President of Asbury Theological Seminary in July of 2009. He came to Asbury Seminary from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., where he has served as professor of world missions and Indian studies since 1998.
Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he has pastored churches in Georgia, and preached regularly in churches throughout New England and across the country. His publications include articles in various missions journals and Indian publications.
Tennent is the author of several books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations, (ISPCK, 2000); Christianity at the Religious Roundtable, (Baker Academic, 2002); and Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think About and Discuss Theology, (Zondervan, 2007). He is the co-author of Revitalizing Practice, which is about challenges to theological education in North America (Peter Lang, 2008). Tennent is also the author of a missiology textbook entitled Invitation to World Missions: A Missiology for the 21st Century, which will be published in 2010.
Tennent’s wife, Julie (Myers), also graduated from Gordon-Conwell with the M.E.M. degree in 1984 and is a church organist. They have two children, Jonathan, 234 and Bethany, 22. After relocating to Lexington from Massachusetts, Tennent started his position at Asbury Seminary on July 1, 2009.
