TKU Stories
Nathan Nkhama

Nathan Nkhama

Nathan Nkhama is a husband, father, local pastor, radio talk show host, and lifelong student. Needless to say, he’s a busy guy. And in 2014, 15 years after moving here from Zambia, Africa, and five years into pastoring his church here, he realized he was in a...

Oli Snyder

Oli Snyder

A prophetic word inspired Oli Snyder to eventually leave the corporate world to study theology at The King’s University. “About ten years ago, while I was sitting outside the Dallas Convention Center during a business event and reading my Bible, a man from Korea...

Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris was born in New York, but grew up primarily in Brazil. After moving back to the states years later, she got saved while attending a retreat at a Brazilian church in the Dallas area. She had no idea what God had in store for her life, including pursuing...

Rachel Sabo

Rachel Sabo

When Rachel Sabo’s dad told her she should go to The King’s University interest meeting, she didn’t exactly want to. But, like parents often are, he was right, and she soon learned she couldn’t have been more wrong. At the time, Rachel was majoring in psychology at a...

Rob Groves

Rob Groves

With a wife and four boys, Rob Groves made the unconventional choice to go back to school. The decision to uproot his family from their established life in Seattle was difficult, but he knew what God was calling them to and to fulfill that call he would need further...

Sarah Phenix

Sarah Phenix

Change has been a constant in Sarah Phenix’s life. “My family has moved every two years or less for most of my whole life — mostly within the state of Texas,” she explained. Sarah mainly sees the moving (due to the nature of her father’s job) as having had a positive...

Sarah Sanders

Sarah Sanders

For Sarah Sanders, choosing to come to The King’s University was far from business as usual. For the last ten years, the business arena has been Sarah’s world. Besides running her own small property business, she also most recently served as a Principal Advisor for...

Shay Beard

Shay Beard

Shay Beard has a message she’s passionate to share. “I want everyone to know that God not only loves them — He likes them,” she exclaimed. “Being a Christian is not about following rules,” she continued. “It’s about spending time with the One who created us....

Steven and Renate Hazel

Steven and Renate Hazel

Steven and Renate Hazel are a dynamic couple with larger-than-life personalities that quickly set them apart – and their story is no different. With over ten years of successful medical-field experience and as leaders in their local church, Steven and Renate had no...

Vivian Wells

Vivian Wells

A year ago Vivian Wells could not have imagined the ways in which God would dramatically redirect her path. She graduated from college with her Bachelors in Marketing and soon after followed God’s call to work on the mission field. During a short break at home she was...