Denise Muir Kjesbo
2000-
Director and Lead Faculty, Children's and Family Ministry
Kjesbo joined Bethel after serving 13 years as associate professor of educational ministries at North American Baptist Seminary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her background includes adjunct teaching at North American Baptist College in Edmonton, Alberta, and at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. She serves on the pastoral staff of First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls as contemporary worship coordinator. Kjesbo has been involved in children's and family ministry from small church plants to large established churches. She has been a workshop presenter for two curriculum publishing companies, travelling throughout the United States and Canada to train and equip those serving in children's and family ministry. Kjesbo is the co-author of Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry, and author of numerous magazine and journal articles.

Education
B.A., Bethel College; M.Div., North American Baptist Seminary; Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School