Biography
Dr. Jonathan Grenz, a veteran of more than 30 years of ministry experience, is the dean of the School of Ministry and Catherine T. MacArthur School of Leadership. Before his appointment to the deanship, he served as director of PBA’s Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program and assistant director of the Center for Experiential Learning (PBA’s study abroad department).
Grenz has served as lead pastor, associate pastor in youth ministry and Christian education, and director of a parachurch ministry. His ministry experience has spanned the Midwest, Northwest, southern California, south Florida, and western Canada. He has been a full-time faculty member at Sioux Falls Seminary and an adjunct professor at Taylor University, College and Seminary in Edmonton, Alberta. He has led numerous short-term mission groups and recently has enjoyed opportunities to teach pastors in Colombia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Ukraine. He also served as the president of the We Are Life board of directors, a foundation making a major impact in the lives of people in Colombia by providing them with resources for evangelism, ministry, education, enterprise, health care, and social work.
He co-authored Synergistic Collaborations: Pastoral Care and Church Social Work, seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.
Grenz is passionate about mentoring and equipping emerging young Christian leaders for the church and the world. He also enjoys serving churches through interim pastoring, consulting, leading the student ministries at his church, speaking at retreats, and preaching at local churches.
He and his wife, Susan, are the parents of Jesse, who graduated from PBA with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies and a Master of Divinity, and Phoebe, who graduated from PBA with a Bachelor of Arts in Cross-Cultural Studies.