Ken Chant
Ken Chant, MRE, ThD (born June 6, 1933), is an Australian Pentecostal pastor with the CRC Churches International. He was ordained in 1952 in the Christian Revival Crusade. He is the elder brother of Dr Barry Chant, founder (with Rev Dennis Slape) and president for many years of Tabor College, Australia.
He has planted eight churches and been pastor of several others. For several years he was the editor of two of Australia's most successful charismatic/pentecostal journals ("Revivalist" and "Vision"). 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.
Vision International College and University
In 1974, he set up 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 Dr Stan DeKoven set up Vision International University, which merged the correspondence courses with a local church campus programme. The college in 2007 had some 7000 teaching centres in more than 150 countries with more than 100,000 students.
Author and composer
He 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 overseas. Details of his writings can be found on his personal web site (see link below).