Ken Chant

Rev Ken Chant (M.R.E, Ph.D)

Ken Chant (born 6 June 1933), is an Australian Pentecostal pastor with the CRC Churches International.^[1] He was ordained in 1952 in the CRC. He is the elder brother of Dr Barry Chant, who is the founder (with the Reverend Dennis Slape) and was, for many years, the president of Tabor College, Australia.

Ken Chant has planted eight churches and been pastor of several others.^[2] For several years he was the editor of two Australian charismatic / Pentecostal journals ("Revivalist" and "Vision").^[3] He has been the principal of four Bible colleges (in Australia and the USA) and has spoken and taught in churches, crusades, conferences, seminars and colleges in a dozen different countries worldwide.^[4]

Vision International College and University

Main articles: Vision International College and Vision International University

In 1974 he established Vision International College in Launceston, Tasmania, as a "Bible correspondence school". To enhance this teaching ministry, he moved to the USA in 1981 and, with Dr Stan DeKoven, established Vision International University, which merged the correspondence courses with a local church campus program.^[4] In 2010 the college had some 7000 teaching centres in more than 150 countries with more than 100,000 students.^[5]

Author and composer

Chant is the author of 40 books, including many college texts. He has also composed a number of gospel songs published in various collections both in Australia and other countries.

Notes

1. ^ CRC National conference Report 2009, "List of Credentialled Pastors."
2. ^ See the official history of the CRC, "Flames of Revival," compiled by Dudley Cooper; published by the National Executiuve of the CRC, Victoria, Australia, 1995; and "Heart of Fire," by Barry Chant; House of Tabor,1984.
3. ^ Both journals are now out of print.
4. ^ ^{a b} Biography of Ken and Alison Chant, included in "Discovery", Vision College Publications, 2009.
5. ^ From a newsletter report sent out from the international office of the college in Ramona, California, in January 2010

External links

• Ken and Alison Chant's personal website

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