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Jessica Dalton

Jessica Dalton

Jessica Dalton has a strong desire to see people encounter God and experience transformation through worship. “I have a passion to write worship songs that are full of truth and reveal God’s character, but are also musically creative,” she said. “I have a passion ...
Courtney Widelitz

Courtney Widelitz

Courtney Widelitz was a full-time makeup artist before feeling God call her to The King’s University to pursue a Masters in Practical Theology. She had a growing desire to understand and know the Word of God and be able to live it and share it with others. Born ...
Oli Snyder

Oli Snyder

A prophetic word inspired Oli Snyder to eventually leave the corporate world to study theology at The King’s University. “About ten years ago, while I was sitting outside the Dallas Convention Center during a business event and reading my Bible, a man from Korea ...
Jared Barber

Jared Barber

Jared Barber says The King’s University is the only thing that brought him to Texas. The Shreveport, LA native felt led to enroll at TKU after a conversation with his former youth pastor. “We had a four hour lunch at Applebee’s about it,” he exclaimed. “I had no ...
Charlotte Barnes

Charlotte Barnes

Charlotte Barnes reconnected to God’s big picture for her life when she audited two classes at The King’s University. “I have been a stay-at-home mom for 22 years,” she said. “I am also an artist and I taught first through tenth grade art classes at a private ...
Jay Axtell

Jay Axtell

Jay Axtell says he knows firsthand that life doesn’t stop after 40. In 2009, through answered prayer to a prophetic word, the doors opened for Jay to start work on a Master of Divinity degree in Messianic Jewish studies at the Van Nuys campus of The King’s ...
Kipepeo Asha

Kipepeo Asha

Kipepeo Asha (“Asha”) discovered her passion on a trip to Israel over a decade ago. “I fell in love with the people and was encouraged by their love for God, their country and one another,” she explained. “But, I also experienced the many divisions between ...
Brandon Bailey

Brandon Bailey

Brandon Bailey is a native Texan attending our main campus in Southlake, Texas. God began stirring his heart to attend seminary several years prior to this campus launch, but when he heard that The Kings was coming to partner with Gateway Church, he said he knew ...
Chandler Schmitz

Chandler Schmitz

Born in Forth Worth, Chandler Schmitz grew up in the panhandle of Texas and later returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to pursue a degree in Theological Studies at TKU’s main campus in Southlake. Obeying the voice of the Lord combined with her love for studying ...
Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris was born in New York, but grew up primarily in Brazil. After moving back to the states years later, she got saved while attending a retreat at a Brazilian church in the Dallas area. She had no idea what God had in store for her life, including ...
Jonathan Landis

Jonathan Landis

Jonathan Landis had years of exposure to ministry and a business education background, but he saw in TKU an opportunity to dramatically strengthen his administrative, pastoral and leadership skills. With a deep calling to encourage and inspire this ...