Dr. Ken Mulholland was chair of missionary church planting professor and professor of missions and ministry studies at Columbia Biblical Seminary & School of Missions. He and his wife, Ann, and their three children spent nearly 15 years as missionaries in Central America under United Church Board for World Ministries. They served in Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
In Costa Rica, Dr. Mulholland was dean of extension ministries and professor of pastoral theology at the Latin American Biblical Seminary. He also taught part-time on the faculty of education at the University of Costa Rica and was involved in an extensive ministry of Christian counseling. During his first term of missionary service in Honduras, he initiated and directed one of the first programs of theological education by extension in Latin America. He was president and professor of New Testament at the Theological Institute of the Evangelical and Reformed Church of Honduras.
During 1977, he was visiting professor of pastoral theology at the Evangelical Presbyterian Seminary in San Felipe, Guatemala. In addition, he also taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Fuller Theological Seminary, the Latin America Institute of Missiological Studies, the Overseas Ministry Studies Center, the U.S. Center for World Mission, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Toccoa Falls College Graduate Division and the Graduate College Of Missions, Korntal, Germany. He served as dean of Columbia Biblical Seminary & School of Missions from 1988 to 2001.
Dr. Mulholland served two terms as national president of the Evangelical Missiological Society, formerly the Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions. Previously, he served in the same capacity from 1987-90. He also chaired the board of the U.S. Center for World Mission and of William Carey International University, Pasadena, California.
Prior to entering missionary service, Dr. Mulholland was pastor of Bethel United Church of Christ Charge, a three-church circuit in rural Pennsylvania. Later, while completing doctoral studies in California, he served as interim pastor of Downey Congregational Church in suburban Los Angeles. He recently served as interim pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Aiken, South Carolina.
Dr. Mulholland authored Adventures in Training the Ministry and coauthored World Missions Today: What You Should Know About Global Missions. He has contributed to several books including After Therapy, What?, Biblical and Theological Perspectives for Christian Counselors; Internationalizing Missionary Training: A Global Perspective; and Missiological Education for the 21st Century. He wrote numerous articles and book reviews, including articles in dictionaries of the Bible, Church History and Missions. He traveled to more than 70 nations.
Dr. Mulholland’s wife, Ann (’85), a music education graduate of Whitworth College, served four years as a Presbyterian missionary in Lebanon before their marriage. She holds a master’s degree with a concentration in English Bible from Columbia Biblical Seminary & School of Missions. Dr. Mulholland passed away September 8, 2003.