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Floyd Cunningham
Floyd T. Cunningham (born September 22, 1954) is an American historian and ordained minister, who has been a global missionary in the Philippines for the Church of the Nazarene since 1983, who served as the fifth president of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary from July 1, 2008 until April 3, 2013. Cunningham is serving currently as the academic dean and distinguished professor of the history of Christianity at APNTS, and is the author of ''Holiness Abroad: Nazarene Missions in Asia'', the editor and co-author of ''Our Watchword & Song: The Centennial History of the Church of the Nazarene'', and the author of dozens of articles in academic journals and magazines. Cunningham is a Life member of the Philippine National Historical Society, a member of the American Society of Church History, the Wesleyan Theological Society, and the American Historical Association since 1980.
==Early life and education==
Floyd Timothy Cunningham was born in Washington, D.C., USA on September 22, 1954,〔"Cunningham, Floyd Timothy", ''Who's Who in the World'', 21st ed. (New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2003).〕 as the oldest of the three children of Floyd Enus Cunningham (born August 17, 1921 in Bethesda, Maryland; died September 7, 1992 in Montgomery County, Maryland),〔"Mr. Floyd Cunningham", ''Frederick News Post'' (Frederick, MD: September 9, 1992):5.〕 an auto parts salesman (and later manager and owner) at the NAPA franchised Maryland Motors in Rockville, Maryland, and Eleanor Wagner Leighton Cunningham (born October 6, 1923 in Rockville, Maryland), later a secretary in the Montgomery County Public Schools system,〔Eleanor W. Cunningham, ''All the Days of My Life: The First Ninety Years "God's Prevenient Grace in Action.'' AuthorHouse, 2014.〕〔("Eleanor Cunningham" ), 2007.〕〔("About the Author" ).〕 and the author of five books,〔Susan Singer-Bart, ("Gaithersburg woman captures images in poetry: County senior discovers new identity as author" ), Gazette.net (April 6, 2011).〕 including ''He Touched Her'' (Warner Press, 1973),〔("He Touched Her" ).〕 and ''Miss Apple: Letters of a Maine Teacher in Kentucky'' (2003) about her mother, Ethel Valentine Applebee (born February 12, 1893 in Enfield, Maine; died November 15, 1973 in Maryland),〔Eleanor W. Cunningham, ("From Maine To Kentucky (Part 1)" ), ''The Kentucky Explorer'' (2000).〕 who had taught for nine months from September 1920 at the Chandler Normal School in Lexington, Kentucky for the American Missionary Association.〔Eleanor W. Cunningham, ("From Maine To Kentucky: Letters Of A Maine Schoolteacher" ), ''The Kentucky Explorer'' (2000).〕〔("About the Author" ).〕 Cunningham is the elder brother of Christian romance novelist Janice Ethel Elder (born August 19, 1959), author of ''Manila Marriage App'' (Pelican Press, 2015),〔() "Manila Marriage App"〕〔(), ("Meet Jan" ).〕 (inspired by her brother's life as a single missionary),〔Renee Blair, ("The Coffee Corner Goes to The Philippines with Jan Elder" ) ''Renee's Inspirational Moments'' (September 20, 2015).〕 and also customer service manager for Christian publisher, The Word Among Us;〔("Nazarene cultivates lasting experience with Christ during 72 years as Sunday school teacher" ), ''NCN News'' (July 20, 2011)〕 and Rev. Dr. Diane Kathleen LeClerc (born March 26, 1963),〔("About the Author" ).〕 professor of historical theology at Northwest Nazarene University since 1998,〔("Nazarene cultivates lasting experience with Christ during 72 years as Sunday school teacher" ), ''NCN News'' (July 20, 2011)〕〔("Graduate Faculty" )〕 Pastor of College & Career Ministries at Five Mile Church of the Nazarene in Boise, Idaho,〔("Dr. Diane Leclerc" )〕 former president of the Wesleyan Theological Society (2007-2008),〔Thomas Jay Oord, ("WTS joins with Society for Pentecostal Studies to examine science and theology" ), ''NCN News'' (March 20, 2008).〕〔("Diane (Cunningham) Leclerc" )〕 and the author or editor of four books, including ''Singleness of Heart: Gender, Sin, and Holiness in Historical Perspective'' (Scarecrow Press, 2001) and ''Discovering Christian Holiness: The Heart of Wesleyan Theology'' (2010).〔("Professor publishes new book on holiness" ), ''NCN News'' (December 15, 2010).〕
Soon after their wedding on May 9, 1953, Cunningham's parents moved into a newly constructed three-bedroom house at 715 Crabb Avenue, in the Maryvale section of Rockville, Maryland. The Cunningham family attended a local congregation of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) in Montrose, Rockville, Maryland, where Eleanor's family had attended from its incorporation in October 1929,〔"Church is Incorporated", ''The Frederick Post'' (Frederick, MD: October 19, 1929):1.〕 and had taught Sunday School since 1939.〔Floyd T. Cunningham, ("Endnote: Memory" ), Paper presented at the Nazarene Global Theology Conference (2002):4.〕〔("Nazarene cultivates lasting experience with Christ during 72 years as Sunday school teacher" ), ''NCN News'' (July 20, 2011)〕 In January 1964, Cunningham joined the Loyal Temperance League, a children's organization founded by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and pledged to abstain from alcohol.〔"LTL Program Given at Rockville". ''White Ribbon Herald'' (January 1964):13.〕 Soon after, Cunningham's family moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland, where, seeking a church that holiness, they began to attend the newly opened local Church of the Nazarene (then located in the former Methodist Episcopal Church at Brookes Avenue), that had been founded on January 5, 1964.〔("Nazarene cultivates lasting experience with Christ during 72 years as Sunday school teacher" ), ''NCN News'' (July 20, 2011)〕 In the summer of 1965 the Cunningham family attended the Church of the Nazarene's annual Washington-Philadelphia District Camp Meeting in North East, Maryland, and after reading children's books about pioneer Nazarenes H. Orton Wiley, R.T. Williams, and Reuben "Uncle Bud" Robinson, Cunningham was converted at the age of 10 during that camp meeting.〔Floyd T. Cunningham, ("Endnote: Memory" ), Paper presented at the Nazarene Global Theology Conference (2002):4.〕 On September 26, 1965, Cunningham was received into full church membership of the Gaithersburg Church of the Nazarene by Pastor Wallace H. Smith.
From 1966 to 1968 Cunningham attended Gaithersburg Junior High School. At the age of 16, While a student at Gaithersburg High School (1968-1972), where he had perfect attendance, Cunningham felt a call to Christian ministry.〔Todd Aebischer, ("Celebrating 30 Years of Service to the Asia-Pacific Region" ), ''Around the Region News'' (November 7, 2013).〕 After graduation from Gaithersburg High School on June 12, 1972,〔"Gaithersburg High Announces Graduates", ''Frederick News'' (Frederick, MD: June 3, 1972):20.〕〔(Missing Classmates )〕 Cunningham attended Eastern Nazarene College, where he was awarded "Most Quiet for the Freshman Class of 1973",〔''Eastern Nazarene College Greebook'' (1973).〕 and where he was the pianist accompanying the Crossmen Quartet (Don Arey, Dennis Cushing, Barry Compton, and Dale L. Binkley) on their tour of churches and on their 1972 LP "Sweeter Gets the Journey". In 1976 Cunningham received the Bachelor of Arts ''cum laude'' from ENC in religion and history. Cunningham subsequently studied at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was the student assistant to Nazarene theologian Dr. J. Kenneth Grider.〔J. Kenneth Grider, (''Entire Sanctification: The Distinctive Doctrine of Wesleyanism'' ), (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1980; Digital edition, 2006):6.〕 In 1979 Cunningham graduated from NTS with a Master of Divinity ''cum laude''. Cunningham studied at Johns Hopkins University in his native Maryland, where he studied under Timothy L. Smith and received the Master of Arts degree in History in 1981, and a Ph.D. in History in 1984〔(Cunningham, Floyd ).〕 for his dissertation "The Christian Faith Personally Given: Divergent Trends in Twentieth-Century American Methodist Thought", which included chapters on Methodists Edwin Lewis (1881–1959); Social Gospel liberal Ernest Fremont Tittle (October 21, 1885 - August 3, 1949); conservative Harold Paul Sloan (1881–1961); and Evangelical humanist Lynn Harold Hough (September 10, 1877 - July 14, 1971). While studying at Johns Hopkins, Cunningham was a research assistant in American Religious History (1981-1983).
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