Adult Bible Studies - Teacher
Current Author
For group study
Spring Quarter 2013
"Beyond the Present Time"
Von Unruh
Von W. Unruh is the pastor of Beech Grove United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and the conference archivist and historian for the Tennessee Conference. A former editor of Adult Bible Studies Teacher, Von has also pastored churches in Kingston Springs and Monteagle, Tennessee, and in Fulton, Kentucky.
A member of the Tennessee Annual Conference since 1991, Von is a graduate of Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City. His paternal ancestors were Mennonites who emigrated to the United States in the 1870's and settled in the Dakotas and western Kansas, bringing with them the Turkey Red Wheat that has helped to turn Kansas into the bread basket of the world.
Von is the author of several books and articles published by Discipleship Resources, Abingdon Press, and Cokesbury. Von has served as spiritual director of countless walk to Emmaus and Chrysalis weekends. A former conference secretary of the Tennessee Conference, he is a member of the Wesleyan Theological Society.