User:Kenn Iskov

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Education

   * Cert. IV in Workplace assessment & Training,  2003
   * M.Litt (Distinction) in Cultural Studies, CQU, 1998.
   * Ph.D Studies, Princeton Seminary.
   * Master of Theology (Th.M advanced academic degree, specialising in education), Princeton Seminary, New Jersey, USA, 1986.
   * Master of Divinity (M.Div professional management degree for ministers), Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, New York, USA, 1983.
   * Bachelor of Theology, (B.Th) Alliance College of Theology, Canberra, 1976.
   * "A" Grade Electrical licence, ACT. 1975.
   * Diploma of Theology (Dip. Th) Melbourne College of Divinity, 1973
   * Diploma of Electrical Engineering, (Dip.E.E) Footscray Institute of Technology, 1969.


About Kenn Iskov, Principal, Living Light Bible College, Papua New Guinea.


Kenn was born in 1947, grew up on a dairy farm in North East Victoria and came to faith in Christ at 17 through the influence of Methodist Youth Camps. He trained and worked as a professional Electrical Engineer for several years.


He studied for a Diploma of Theology at Melbourne Bible Institute, graduating in 1973. After service as a communications consultant with Christian Media Australia he moved to Canberra and completed a Bachelor of Theology at the Alliance Theological College in 1975. While in Canberra his wife Leonie gave birth to twin sons, and in 1976 the family moved to Western Australia to pastor a newly- planted Christian & Missionary Alliance church.


In 1980 after the birth of a daughter, Kenn and his family moved to Nyack, New York on a scholarship and completed a Master of Divinity degree at Alliance Theological Seminary in 1983. He went on from there to Ph.D studies at Princeton Theological Seminary but did not complete the program and graduated with a Master of Theology in the field of practical theology in 1986.


The family returned to Australia in 1986 and Kenn served as pastor of Ku-ring-gai Alliance Church in West Lindfield for six years. In that time he served as Vice President of the C&MA and as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance College of Theology. He also taught as adjunct faculty at the College. In 1990 Kenn launched a lay training program called Second Track using programmed learning materials and within four years had one hundred students around the country studying by extension.


In 1993 Kenn returned to engineering for a season and completed a Master of Literature in Cultural Studies through Central Queensland University. He returned to pastoral ministry in 1996 and has served with Senior Pastor Ian Jagelman on the staff of an innovative multi-congregational church in Sydney’s North. Kenn served as Ministry Pastor at the Lane Cove congregation, and as technical consultant in various areas.


From 1997 to 2003 Kenn served as adjunct faculty at Tabor College, Sydney, concluding service there as the Head of the Department of Ministry.


In 2003 Kenn moved to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to work with Living Light Foursquare church, a 2000 member Pentecostal church with a range of community service ministries. In 2005 Kenn founded Living Light Bible College which in 2007 has a student body of forty. He continues to serve as Principal of this school


Kenn and his wife Leonie have three adult children, and maintain a home in lovely Ermington in Sydney, Australia. Leonie works as a nursing administrator for Living Light Health services, running two clinics and a range of community service initiatives. Kenn's interests include music, computers and painting. He dabbles in watercolours, haunts the Art Gallery of NSW when in Sydney , and is investigating the inner workings of the Linux computer operating system.