Kent Parks

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President and CEO — Beyond

Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They regularly lead church planting movement trainings around the world. He also equips people to better understand mission strategy, biblical theology, and the biblical basis of missions. Previously, he served as a strategy coordinator for launching movements among unreached people groups (UPGs) in Southeast Asia. He has also developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent is Co-Facilitator for Ethne—ethne.net—(a global network of UPG-focused leaders), is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, and is Senior Associate for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization. Kent pastored in Texas for seven years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor and the academic dean of a seminary and has also taught internationally in graduate schools. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas as well as his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Kent and Erika have two adult daughters also serving the Lord.

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Bhojpuri Breakthrough

One of the largest Church Planting Movements in the world, the Bhojpuri movement began in the 1990s and continues to spread gospel light into the regi...

Featured on: Thursday, June 6, 2019

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International Day for the Unreached

An alliance of evangelistic ministries is calling on all Christians to participate in the second International Day for the Unreached on May 20, 2018....

Featured on: Thursday, March 29, 2018

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Disciple-making Movements as a Biblical, Holistic, and Radical Solution – Beyond

In the mid-1980s, 24% of world’s population (1.8 billion people) had little or no Gospel access. Today, that figure has grown to 29% (2.1 billion peop...

Featured on: Monday, January 29, 2018, AM

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