Ken Chant

{{Short description|Australian pastor (1933–2024)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|6|6}}

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| occupation = Pastor, author, speaker

| spouse = Alison Chant

| website = [http://kdchant.vision.edu/ kdchant.vision.edu]

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Kenneth David Chant (6 June 1933 – 24 September 2024) was an Australian Pentecostal pastor with CRC Churches International.CRC National conference Report 2009, "List of Credentialled Pastors". He was ordained in 1952 in the CRC. He was the elder brother of Barry Chant, who is the founder (with the Reverend Dennis Slape) and former president of Tabor College, Australia.

Chant planted eight churches and was pastor of several others.See the official history of the CRC, "Flames of Revival", compiled by Dudley Cooper; published by the National Executiuve of the CRC, Victoria, Australia, 1995; and "Heart of Fire", by Barry Chant; House of Tabor,1984. For several years he was the editor of two Australian charismatic and Pentecostal journals, Revivalist and Vision.Both journals are now out of print. 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.Biography of Ken and Alison Chant, included in "Discovery", Vision College Publications, 2009.

On 9 June 2014, Chant was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM), General Division, in the Queen's Honours List.2014 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), "The Reverend Dr Kenneth David Chant - For service to religion, and to theological education."

Chant died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 91.{{cite web |title=Tribute – Ken Chant |url=https://crcchurches.org/news/67-tribute--ken-chant |website=CRC Churches International |access-date=27 December 2024 |date=28 October 2024}}{{cite web |title=It is my sad duty to advise you that Rev Dr Ken Chant passed away in the early hours of the 24th of September 2024. |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509859291658831&id=100079042927061&set=a.181792124465551 |website=New Life Christian Centre on Facebook |access-date=27 December 2024 |date=25 September 2024}}

Vision International College and University

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In 1974 he established Vision International College in Launceston, Tasmania, as a "Bible correspondence school". To enhance this teaching ministry, he moved to the US in 1981 and, with Stan DeKoven, established Vision International University, which merged the correspondence courses with a local church campus program. In 2010 the college had some 7,000 teaching centres in more than 150 countries with more than 100,000 students.

Author and composer

Chant was the author of 50 books, including many college texts. He has also composed a number of gospel songs published in various collections both in Australia and other countries.

Bibliography

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  • Sitting on Top of The World (Bethany Fellowship, 1972) {{ISBN|978-0-87123-526-8}}
  • Building the Church God Wants {{ISBN|978-1-875577-00-2}}
  • Dynamic Christian Foundations {{ISBN|978-1-61529-045-1}}
  • Dazzling Secrets for Despondent Saints {{ISBN|978-1-884213-89-2}}
  • Authenticity and Authority of the Bible {{ISBN|978-1-61529-044-4}}
  • Faith Dynamics {{ISBN|978-1-61529-064-2}}
  • Clothed With Power {{ISBN|978-1-61529-039-0}}
  • The Pentecostal Pulpit (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-050-5}}
  • Better Than Revival (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-040-6}}
  • The Cross and The Crown (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-049-9}}
  • Throne Rights (Vision Publishing, 2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-060-4}}

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