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Ron Crandall was born and grew up in Michigan. He graduated with honors from Michigan State University in 1964. Under a Rockefeller Grant for Theological Education, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California where he received his doctorate in pastoral theology in 1969. He is an ordained elder in the Kentuky Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Dr. Crandall worked as a missionary in Vietnam during 1966 and 1967. He served churches in Alhambra and Anaheim, Callifornia and Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. In 1977 he was appointed to the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship in Nashville, Tennessee where he served for six years as Director of Local Church Evangelism. In 1983 he joined the faculty of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky where he now serves as the McCreless Professor of Evangelism.
His special interests and expertise include: ministry and evangelism in smaller churches; theology and evangelism and Christian decipleship; local church evangelism and church growth; conversion; personal evangelism; Christian witness; Wesleyan perspectives in evangelism; and new church planting.
Dr. Crandall is a sought after leader for renewal weekends, retreats, workshops, and seminars as well as consultant to conferences, districts, and local churches. He has served on the International Steering Committee for the Walk to Emmaus and has been active in the United Christian Ashram movement. He has contributed to various international study groups on evangelism, and served on the executive committee for the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education. His publications include numerous articles in periodicals and journals, devotional writing for the Upper Room, evangelism resources for the United Methodist Church, two books on the small church There's New Life in the Small Congregation (Discipleship Resources, 1983), Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church (Abingdon, 1995, and The Contagious Witness: Exploring Christian Conversion (Abingdon, 1999).
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