|
DR.
JACK W. HAYFORD
 Those
called to the ministry today face challenges unimagined by
predecessors just a generation ago. Many serve God in societal
environments not anticipated by traditional seminary training.
Helping equip pastors – of many denominations, serving diverse
communities around the world – to effectively lead their congregations
in dynamic, Christ-centered ministry is the current focus
of Dr. Jack W. Hayford.
A
prolific and best-selling author, Pastor Hayford has penned
more than three dozen books, 600 hymns and choruses, including
the internationally known and widely recorded "Majesty,"
and hundreds of teaching cassettes distributed worldwide.
He is perhaps best known, however, as founding pastor of The
Church on the Way (TCOTW), the First Foursquare Church
of Van Nuys, California. His service to TCOTW, which began
as a temporary assignment to pastor 18 people in 1969, continued
fruitfully for more than three decades as the congregation
grew to more than 10,000 active members.
Now
led to focus his ministry chiefly on issues of church leadership
and on expanded outreach to denominational and interdenominational
gatherings at colleges, seminaries, parachurch and other organizations
around the world, this "Pastor to Pastors" has,
along with the church elders, transferred the senior pastor
role at The Church on the Way to Rev
Jim Tolle.
In
addition to his above ministry roles, he also serves as President
of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. This
movement has 38,000 churches and 49,000 pastors in 136 nations,
with a constituency of nearly five million.
Nationally
and internationally, Dr. Hayford addresses a broad range of
gatherings and audiences annually, from TCOTW’s own annual
Autumn Leadership Conference to the Lausanne II Congress on
World Evangelism, the Pentecostal World Conference, National
Religious Broadcasters Conventions, National Association of
Evangelicals, and the Gospel Music Association. He has been
a regular speaker at Promise Keepers Conferences across the
nation and anchored the organization’s 1997 "Stand in
the Gap" event on the Washington D.C. Mall. He also has
been featured at the famed Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service,
the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Schools of Evangelism,
the National Congress on Biblical Exposition, Christians in
Government, Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International
and, earlier this year, the National Prayer Service following
the inaugural ceremonies for President George W. Bush. He
has traveled and ministered in more than 40 nations, and has
led study tours to Israel, the Middle East and the Mediterranean
25 times as part of his teaching ministry.
Founder
and Chancellor of The
Kings College (1987), an interdenominational Bible training
center for men and women seeking a deeper understanding of
the Holy Scriptures and The
Kings Seminary (1999), a new graduate school of theology
and advanced-level ministry training, Dr. Hayford is responding
to the call to help prepare leaders for the "Spirit-Formed"
Church for the 21st Century with an institution
meeting the highest institutional and academic standards.
Through The
Jack W. Hayford School of Pastoral Nurture, founded in
1997, he serves senior pastors with intensive, seven-day small
group (35-40 people) sessions, as well as through shorter-term
pastoral institutes that involve other nationally recognized
leaders on church-related issues and skills along with Pastor
Hayford. To accommodate pastors who might not be able to travel
to Los Angeles for the intensive weeklong sessions, Pastor
Hayford recently began conducting one or two day Regional
Schools of Pastoral Nurture at various locations across
the country.
Touching
millions who resonate with his passionate, yet non-theatrical
style, Pastor Hayford’s Living Way Ministry teaching cassettes
are distributed worldwide. Daily and weekly teachings on radio
and television reach into all 50 states and the District of
Columbia, as well as Australia, Canada, Central Europe, the
Middle East, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Taiwan.
In addition, Pastor Hayford is a frequent contributor to numerous
Christian periodicals, senior editorial advisor for Ministries
Today, a member of the editorial advisory board of Christianity
Today’s Leadership Journal, and general editor of the
Spirit-Filled Life publications produced by Thomas Nelson
Publishers that have sold over two million volumes.
Interviewed
regularly by both secular and religious media; he has been
a thought-provoking guest on numerous news programs and talk
shows, including Ted Koppel’s "Prime Time Special"
(ABC), "Prime Time" (ABC), USA Radio Network, Christian
Broadcasting Network, Focus on the Family, Trinity Broadcasting
network, Moody Broadcasting, and "The Merv Griffin Show,"
among others. With keen insight into God’s Word and a commitment
to practical application, he has become recognized for balance
in preaching the truth. He avoids extremes, while not diluting
or compromising the demands of truth, graciously revealing
the heart of a holy and merciful God for each situation or
issue.
Born
in Los Angeles and raised in Oakland, Calif., he has been
married since 1954 to Anna (Smith) Hayford. The couple has
four children and eleven grandchildren.
"Brethren,
having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way, which He consecrated for us..." Hebrews 10:19-20
 Jack
Hayford Ministries
14800 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, CA 91405-2233
(800) 776-8180 * FAX: (818) 779-8411
Privacy
Statement
Last updated on: 7/09/03
|
