Paul Kooistra

Paul Kooistra was the past President of Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina.[1]

Kooistra was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and received an M.Div. from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama.

Kooistra is a Presbyterian minister and the past coordinator of Mission to the World, the missions agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He was elected moderator of the 2008-2009 General Assembly of the PCA.[2]

He served as a pastor and professor at Belhaven College and Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, and president of Covenant Theological Seminary (the official seminary of the PCA).

Kooistra has written devotional booklets Thirty-One Days of Grace, Supper's Ready and Pursuit of Joy.

On July 18, 2014, he was elected president of both Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary, which are affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.[1] However, he resigned in 2016 after an unsuccessful attempt at separating the seminary from the college.[3]

References

1. "Erskine Board Calls Paul Kooistra as President". The Aquila Report. July 18, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
2. "TE Paul Kooistra Elected Moderator of 36th PCA General Assembly". The Aquila Report. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
3. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/08/31/erskine-president-and-board-chair-leaving. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Academic offices
Preceded by William S. Barker	President of Covenant Theological Seminary 1985–1994	Succeeded by Bryan Chapell
Preceded by David A. Norman	President of Erskine College 2014–2016	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by David A. Norman	President of Erskine Theological Seminary 2014–2016	Succeeded by Incumbent