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Jack Williams Hayford (; born June 25, 1934) is an American author, Pentecostal minister, and Chancellor of The King's University (formerly The King's College and Seminary). 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 2009. 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 (the name later was changed to "The Church on the Way"), 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.〔http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cgi-bin/mega/db.pl?db=default&uid=default&view_records=1&ID= *&sb=5〕 Pat Boone was an elder in Hayford's church. Hayford is a graduate of L.I.F.E. Bible College (now Life Pacific 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. He is the author of the popular 1978 hymn "Majesty", which is rated as one of the top 100 contemporary hymns, performed and sung in churches worldwide.〔http://www.praisecharts.com/ccli-top-100/〕〔http://www.worshiparchive.com/song/majesty〕〔Bessman, Jim. "(Words & Music: Brentwood/Benson Gets Songs by Hayford )" ''Billboard'', November 10, 2001, Vol. 113, No. 45, page 58. ISSN 0006-2510〕 In 1995, he recorded ''Men in Worship'', under the Hosanna! Music label, with 1500 men. == Early life == Jack Williams Hayford was born on June 25, 1934 to Jack and Dolores Hayford, who had married two years earlier on September 28, 1932. His father had served in the military as a young man and served as a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Hayford's mother, Dolores, was a Bible teacher who spoke at interdenominational women's classes and Women's Aglow Fellowship (now Aglow International).〔 Hayford was born with a muscular condition in his neck, however his condition improved. Although Hayford's parents did not always attend church, he has credited them with providing him with a Christian upbringing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack W. Hayford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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