Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School (LBC | Capital) in Lancaster celebrated the inauguration of its sixth president, Thomas L. Kiedis, at a ceremony on April 29. Kiedis was named LBC | Capital's sixth president on Feb. 1, 2020, following 40 years of service to the church and biblical higher education.
Attended by college trustees, board members, administrators, faculty members, staff members, students, family members, and others from the community, the inauguration ceremony included a keynote address by Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College; an investiture ceremony by trustee Michael Van Belle and president emeritus Peter Teague, who served as the LBC | Capital president from 1999 to 2020; and an inaugural response by Kiedis.
Before his presidency, Kiedis served as a senior pastor at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, Fla., where he started in 2007 as the director of leadership development and church planting. Previously, Kiedis served as the dean of the chapel and assistant professor of ministry at Palm Beach Atlantic University and for many years as a pastor and church planter.
Kiedis earned a bachelor's degree from Mid-South Bible College, Master of Arts in religious education from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. in leadership from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Kiedis has had extensive time in the classroom at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.
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