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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Australian pastor (1933–2024)}}<br />
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| name = Ken Chant<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|6|6}}<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|9|24|1933|6|6}}<br />
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| occupation = Pastor, author, speaker<br />
| spouse = Alison Chant<br />
| website = [http://kdchant.vision.edu/ kdchant.vision.edu]<br />
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'''Kenneth David Chant''' (6 June 1933 – 24 September 2024) was an Australian [[Pentecostal]] pastor with [[CRC Churches International]].<ref>CRC National conference Report 2009, "List of Credentialled Pastors".</ref> He was [[ordination|ordained]] in 1952 in the CRC. He was the elder brother of [[Barry Chant]], who is the founder (with the Reverend Dennis Slape) and former president of [[Tabor College, Australia]].<br />
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Chant planted eight churches and was pastor of several others.<ref>See the official history of the CRC, "Flames of Revival", compiled by Dudley Cooper; published by the National Executiuve of the CRC, Victoria, Australia, 1995; and "Heart of Fire", by Barry Chant; House of Tabor,1984.</ref> For several years he was the editor of two Australian charismatic and Pentecostal journals, ''Revivalist'' and ''Vision''.<ref>Both journals are now out of print.</ref> He has been the principal of four Bible colleges (in Australia and the USA) and has spoken and taught in churches, crusades, conferences, seminars and colleges in a dozen different countries worldwide.<ref name=bio>Biography of Ken and Alison Chant, included in "Discovery", Vision College Publications, 2009.</ref><br />
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On 9 June 2014, Chant was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM), General Division, in the Queen's Honours List.<ref>[[2014 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)]], "The Reverend Dr Kenneth David Chant - For service to religion, and to theological education."</ref><br />
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Chant died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tribute – Ken Chant |url=https://crcchurches.org/news/67-tribute--ken-chant |website=CRC Churches International |access-date=27 December 2024 |date=28 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=It is my sad duty to advise you that Rev Dr Ken Chant passed away in the early hours of the 24th of September 2024. |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509859291658831&id=100079042927061&set=a.181792124465551 |website=New Life Christian Centre on Facebook |access-date=27 December 2024 |date=25 September 2024}}</ref><br />
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== Vision International College and University ==<br />
{{Main|Vision International College|Vision International University}}<br />
In 1974 he established [[Vision International College]] in [[Launceston, Tasmania]], as a "Bible [[correspondence school]]". To enhance this teaching ministry, he moved to the US in 1981 and, with Stan DeKoven, established [[Vision International University]], which merged the correspondence courses with a local church campus program.<ref name=bio/> In 2010 the college had some 7,000 teaching centres in more than 150 countries with more than 100,000 students.<br />
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== Author and composer ==<br />
Chant was the author of 50 books, including many college texts. He has also composed a number of [[gospel song]]s published in various collections both in Australia and other countries.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
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* ''Sitting on Top of The World'' (Bethany Fellowship, 1972) {{ISBN|978-0-87123-526-8}}<br />
* ''Building the Church God Wants'' {{ISBN|978-1-875577-00-2}}<br />
* ''Dynamic Christian Foundations'' {{ISBN|978-1-61529-045-1}}<br />
* ''Dazzling Secrets for Despondent Saints'' {{ISBN|978-1-884213-89-2}}<br />
* ''Authenticity and Authority of the Bible'' {{ISBN|978-1-61529-044-4}}<br />
* ''Faith Dynamics'' {{ISBN|978-1-61529-064-2}}<br />
* ''Clothed With Power'' {{ISBN|978-1-61529-039-0}}<br />
* ''The Pentecostal Pulpit'' (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-050-5}}<br />
* ''Better Than Revival'' (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-040-6}}<br />
* ''The Cross and The Crown'' (Vision Publishing, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-049-9}}<br />
* ''Throne Rights'' (Vision Publishing, 2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61529-060-4}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://kdchant.vision.edu Personal website]<br />
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