Stanton Appointed Chair of ANU Religion Department

Rev Mark Louw, Africa Regional Education Coordinator

Dr Daryll Stanton has been appointed as the new Chair of the Religion Department at Africa Nazarene University (ANU), replacing Dr Rodney Reed who was named Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs effective June 2010.

Stanton has served as a member of faculty at ANU in the Religion Department since 1997. He is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University with a BA in Religion in 1975, and received the MA in Religion from Olivet in 1981. Two years later he was awarded the MA in Missions from Nazarene Theological Seminary (1983). In 1997 he received the Doctor of Education from California Coast University. His dissertation was entitled: "A Wesleyan-Holiness Theological Model for Use with English as a Second Language Students".

Stanton was advised, in his letter of appointment, that “one major challenge” which needs to be addressed “immediately is the recruitment of sustainable numbers of students in the department”.

In his response to his appointment, Stanton stated, “It is my desire to ensure that our department standards are ‘world class and relevant to the situation in Africa’ as well as to the doctrine of the Church of the Nazarene. It is our prayer that God will give many more students who we can equip to impact the mission of the Church of the Nazarene in Kenya and throughout Africa. We believe the best days are to be seen here at ANU with a number of new programmes plus the new open and distance delivery systems.”

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