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Daniel Ketchum Biography:
Daniel Ketchum, Ph.D.
Wife: Carol Ketchum
  
  • Director of Nazarene Missions International (NMI), Nazarene global prayer initiatives, engagemagazine.nazarene.org, Global Mission partnerships, and Global Mission deputation.
     
  • Until mid-2006, Daniel and Carol served in the Eurasia region as field strategy coordinator on the India and South Asia fields with 25% of the world’s people living in eight nations. More than 1,800 students are enrolled in SANBC and more than 2,000 organized churches on 19 districts, growing by more than one new organized church per day each year for the last several years.
     
  • Prior to India and South Asia, they served as field strategy coordinator for two fields: Western Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe (20 nations across northern Africa and southern Europe).
     
  • Before becoming missionaries, the Ketchum’s served as lead pastor, last at Nampa, Idaho College Church. Daniel, an ordained elder, also served as a general board member, global president of Nazarene Youth International (NYI), district superintendent, and university trustee.
     
  • Daniel and Carol are graduates of Northwest Nazarene University. Daniel completed a M.Div. at Nazarene Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. at the University of Idaho (Christian formation and biblical, spiritual disciplines).
       
  • Their son, Ryan, his wife, and four children serve as Nazarene volunteer missionaries. Ryan has also been a worship leader and a residential director at Northwest Nazarene University. Their daughter, Cherie, and husband have three children and serve a Church of the Nazarene near Seattle, she as worship pastor and he as youth pastor.

 

Updated May 2010

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