Vice Chair · Class of A27
Jon Barnes serves Lexington Theological Seminary as Associate Dean as well as the Program Director for the Pathways for Tomorrow Grant. In addition, he is an Affiliate Faculty, teaching in the areas of Church History and Mission. Barnes has over a decade of international experience, serving in South Africa and Mozambique with Global Ministries/DOM and in South Africa, Lesotho and eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) with the Mennonite Central Committee. In addition, he served as Director for Higher Education at HELM from 2016 to 2022.
He received a BA from Gardner-Webb University (1993), a MDiv from Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (2000), and a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2010) in South Africa. In addition to numerous journal articles, Barnes is the author of Power and Partnership: A History of the Protestant Mission Movement (Pickwick, 2013) and co-editor of Restoring Dignity, Nourishing Hope: Developing Mutuality in Mission (Pilgrim Press, 2016). More recently, he wrote “Mission and Ministry in the Age of Pandemics,” which appears in Threshold Dwellers in the Age of Global Pandemic (Pickwick, 2022) and is a guest editor for an upcoming issue of the Review & Expositor focusing on faith responses to imperial Christianity and Christian nationalism.
Barnes currently lives in Nicholasville, Kentucky with his spouse, Dawn, and has two college age kids, Khaya and Aly, that are enrolled at Chapman University.