Some of Our Alumni

Defending the Faith

“Trinity gave me a love for the Word. The way [the professors] handled the Scriptures rescued it from becoming merely an academic pursuit. Seminary is possibly the single most important agency that the church has to deal with today because that is where its leaders cultivate their disciplines and form their convictions.”

Ravi Zacharias (MDiv ’76) is the president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and the author of many books, including A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism (Baker, 1994) and Jesus Among Other Gods (Word, 2000).

Dr. John Ankerberg (MA ’72, MDiv ’73) is the host of the nationally televised John Ankerberg Show, a half-hour program that presents contemporary spiritual issues and defends biblical answers. John is also founder and president of The Ankerberg Theological Research Institute.

As Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Dr. William Lane Craig (MA ’74, MA ’75) debates across university campuses with leading non-Christian scholars.

Developing New Leaders

“Trinity has a reputation worldwide as one of the best places for biblical studies. The concentration of biblical scholars is quite amazing.”

Ivor Poobalan (ThM ’05) is president of Colombo Theological Seminary in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Jacob Kibor (PhD ’98) is president of Scott Theological College, Kenya, and chair of the Council for Theological Education in Africa.

K. C. Varghese (PhD ’00) is president of Kerala Theological Seminary in India.

Dr. Craig Williford (’95) is president of Denver Seminary in Colorado.

Dr. Julie Lee Wu (MA ’76) is president of China Bible Seminary in Hong Kong.

Shepherding the Church

“Trinity Divinity School exemplifies the powerful balance between scholarship and sonship, between mind and heart, between precept and practice. I am forever shaped by certain Trinity faculty who cared enough to reach into my life personally during and after class and challenge me in my own walk with Christ.”

James MacDonald (MA ’88) is founder and senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. This church is heard on 650 radio stations through “Walk in the Word.”

Daniel Dong-won Lee (DMiss ’94) is the senior pastor of the 40,000-member Global Mission Church in Seoul, Korea.

Loving Others

Dr. Galen Carey (MDiv ’80, DMin ’92) headed World Relief’s tsunami relief efforts as the Indonesian Country Director.

Ondrej Franka (MA/NT ’85) is the founder of Yugoslavian Evangelistic Society, a ministry that builds up existing churches and helps to plant new ones.

Harold Moore (MDiv ’79) cofounded His Mansion, a holistic ministry for victims of abuse, teenagers with addictions, and youth with behavioral or emotional dysfunction.

Walter Pimpong (MDiv ’86) is executive director of the International Needs Network’s branch in Ghana, working to free the Trokosi slave women.

Arthur Stracinski (MDiv ’98) cofounded ROOF, a Russian orphan charity pioneering high-quality education for Russian orphans.

Dr. Mark Wittig (MDiv ’82, DMiss ’00) works among more than 800 impoverished children in Colombia.

Lynsey Steiner (MA/CP ’02) is director of the Loop Center in Chicago, a CareFirst Pregnancy Center that provides compassionate, confidential care for women facing unplanned pregnancies.

Challenging Christian Thought

“Looking back from now over thirty years, I am very grateful for the master’s program in church history I was able to pursue at Trinity. Dedicated faculty, challenging assignments, wide-ranging inquiry combined with biblical fidelity, a good mix of commitments to the church and the academy--all made for stimulating education of the best kind.”

Dr. Mark A. Noll (MA ’72), McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals.

Dr. Sarah Sumner (MDiv ’91, PhD ’96) is chair and teaching professor in the Department of Ministry at the Graduate School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University and the author of Men and Women in the Church.

Dr. David Wells (ThM ’67) is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has authored or edited fifteen books, including No Place for Truth, or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology and Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision.

Dr. Ray Bakke (MDiv ’69) is chair of the Board of Regents and Distinguished Professor of International Urban Ministry at Northwest Graduate School of Ministry. He is an author and expert on urban ministry.

Dr. Daniel Heimbach (MDiv/MA ’82) is professor of Christian Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a former  domestic policy staff member for President George H. W. Bush.

Helping the Hurting

Dr. Freda Crews (DMin ’82) is the host of “Time for Hope,” a faith-based mental health television program seen on 125 stations around the country.