Following 25 years in pastoral ministry and a three-year tenure as Vice President of the National Association of Evangelicals, Bob Wenz has now returned to a ministry focused on his principal passion and his primary calling: a teaching, training, and coaching ministry for churches and pastors to elevate preaching and worship to a higher level.
Bob holds bachelors and master’s degrees in speech communication from Arizona State University where he wrote his master's thesis on the unique nature of expository preaching. He earned a master’s degree in religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School [Trinity International University], and a doctor of ministry degree from Bethel Theological Seminary [Bethel University].
He served as senior pastor of churches in Michigan, New York, California and Washington, D.C., during which time he also developed and international teaching and training ministry for national church pastors. He has ministered in nearly forty countries since 1987. The Reverend Bob Wenz holds ministerial credentials with the Christian and Missionary Alliance as well with the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.
Bob teaches part-time at the King’s College and Seminary -- including courses in church history and Patristics, preaching, and advanced preaching, and apologetics -- and at Pikes Peak College in Colorado Springs he is an adjunct professor of philosophy.
He is also the author of Room for God? A Worship Challenge for the Church Growth and Marketing Era [Baker Books, 1994], and Navigating Your Perfect Storm, released by Biblica at the end of 2010.
Bob is also a regular contributor to Christianity Today, aLife, and other publications.
Bob has returned to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Evangelicals through 2013.
Suellen and Bob Wenz have been married 35 years and have two children – Andrew and Lauren Wenz Hardy, who both live in Colorado Springs. Suellen is an editorial specialist with Compassion International, a child sponsorship agency.