A Conversation with Greg Waybright

Kevin Kompelien is the 17th president of Trinity.

Rev. Kevin Kompelien previously served as the president of the Evangelical Free Church of America for nine years, from 2015-2023. Before that time, he was the international leader for the Africa Division with ReachGlobal (the international mission of the EFCA) and a senior leader of the mission.

A graduate of TEDS (MDiv ’83), Kompelien served over twenty years as pastor of two EFCA churches. In addition, he served on the North Central District Board, chairing the church planting committee, and on the Central California District Board (now EFCA West). In June 2019, President Kompelien was presented with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. A native of Thief River Falls, MN, Kompelien and his wife Becky have been married for 42 years. They have four grown, married children and nine grandchildren.

Gregory Waybright (PhD Marquette University) is President Emeritus of Trinity. Waybright served as Trinity’s thirteenth president from 1995 to 2007. He went on to serve as senior pastor of Lake Avenue Church, a 4,000+ member congregational church in Pasadena, California, for twelve years before serving as Wheaton’s Interim Chaplain for two years from 2020–2022.