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Ken Chant

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Vision International College and University
Author and composer
Bibliography
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External links

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Ken Chant (born: Kenneth David Chant; 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 Barry Chant, who is the founder (with the Reverend Dennis Slape) and former president of Tabor College, Australia.

Chant has planted eight churches and been pastor of several others.^[2] For several years he was the editor of two Australian charismatic and 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]

On June 9, 2014, Dr Chant was appointed of the Order of Australia (OAM), General Division, in the Queen's Honours List.^[5]

Vision International College and University

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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 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.^[6]

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.

Bibliography

Sitting on Top of The World (Bethany Fellowship, 1972) {{ISBN|978-0-87123-526-8}}
Building the Church God Wants {{ISBN|978-1-875577-00-2}}
Dynamic Christian Foundations {{ISBN|978-1-61529-045-1}}
Dazzling Secrets for Despondent Saints {{ISBN|978-1-884213-89-2}}
Authenticity and Authority of the Bible {{ISBN|978-1-61529-044-4}}
Faith Dynamics {{ISBN|978-1-61529-064-2}}
Clothed With Power {{ISBN|978-1-61529-039-0}}
The Pentecostal Pulpit (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-050-5}}
Better Than Revival (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-040-6}}
The Cross and The Crown (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-049-9}}
Throne Rights (Vision Publishing, 2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-060-4}}

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. ^¹Biography of Ken and Alison Chant, included in "Discovery", Vision College Publications, 2009.
5. ^2014 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), "The Reverend Dr Kenneth David Chant - For service to religion, and to theological education."
6. ^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

5 : 1933 births|Living people|Australian Pentecostal pastors|20th-century Christian clergy|Pentecostal writers

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