Jack W. Hayford
Pastor, Composer
1934 –
Who is Jack W. Hayford?
Jack Williams Hayford is an American author, Pentecostal minister, and Chancellor of The King's University. He is the founding pastor of The Church on the Way in Van Nuys and was the fourth President of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel from 2004 to 2008.
While working on his second bachelor's degree at Azusa Pacific University, Hayford, on a temporary basis, began pastoring a small congregation, the First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys, where he wound up serving as the senior pastor from 1969 to 1999. The church subsequently became numbered among the largest churches in America, and particularly, the Foursquare denomination, at one point reporting membership exceeding 10,000. Pat Boone was an elder in Hayford's church.
Hayford is a graduate of L.I.F.E. Bible College, where he served as dean of students, and Azusa Pacific University. He is widely known for his past involvement in the Promise Keepers movement, his role as founder and chancellor of The King's University, and for being a prolific author and song-writer, with over 600 hymns and choruses in his catalog.
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