DELONN RANCE

DELONN RANCE

DeLonn L. Rance (email)

Doctor of Missiology Program Coordinator

Chair of the Global Missions Department
Visiting Professor of Intercultural Studies

B.A., Bethany College (now Bethany University)
M.A., Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
M.A., Vanguard University
Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary
Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Cristiana de las Asambleas de Dios (El Salvador)

Twenty years of missionary experience among the people of El Salvador and a transforming vision for the training and sending of missionaries from the two-thirds world fire the passion of Dr. Rance’s teaching. Having been raised in Guatemala as a child of missionaries, he experienced a call to raise up Latin Americans for missions before his teenage years began. He arrived in El Salvador as a missionary (and AGTS alumnus) at age 23 and immediately set out to fulfill that calling by becoming the founding dean and professor of missiology for the School of Theology and Missions at the Universidad Cristiana de las Asambleas de Dios. He led in the formation of the A/G Department of Missions in the Salvadoran national church and served as its president for its first eight years, preaching missions across the nation of El Salvador and throughout Latin America. He is the founder of CAMAD, a missionary training center in El Salvador, and is the secretary of Misiones en Conjunto, a network of A/G missions agencies in Latin American and the Caribbean. Together with other leaders, he has helped to build what has become a strong missionary movement in the national churches of the region. In addition to his missionary statesmanship, Dr. Rance served as a member of the Executive Committee and General Presbytery of the A/G in El Salvador for 20 years, and taught at Bethel Bible Institute. His international teaching includes work with Latin American Advanced School of Theology, Latin American Theological Seminary and Bethany College (now Bethany University).