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Kenny Benge
Kenny has served with InterVarsity for three years, and has over
20 years of ministry experience. Kenny
grew up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Farmlands
and oil fields provided the context for his early years and stimulated his
curiosity for his hobbies such as rock collecting, chemistry, birds and
geography. It was in his native
Oklahoma that his love for the outdoors began. His spiritual journey began in this small community centered around
family and church.
He graduated in 1980 from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and worked in the petroleum industry before entering vocational ministry. His vocational ministry experience prior to InterVarsity included undergraduate campus ministry, men’s discipleship, and overseeing adult discipleship on staff at a local church. He completed the Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, with a concentration in Church History.
Kenny currently serves as Team Leader for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministry at Vanderbilt University, and has a direct ministry role working at the Owen School of Management.
Most of the experiences above were learned with the love and
encouragement of his wife of twenty-one years, Laura. She has contributed greatly to his learning process about
life and relationships. Together
they enjoy and cherish their four children: Seth (19), Will (17), Betsy (15),
and Ted (13). He loves being in the
outdoors, is an avid “birder” (a serious bird-watcher), loves golf, and
reads novels (favorite authors: Wallace Stegner, Flannery O’Connor, Annie
Dillard, Wendell Berry, P.D. James, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Eugene Peterson).
He and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee and attend Saint
Bartholomew’s Church.
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November 2003
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