About the Author:

Kenneth Uptegrove is a Christian writer who desires to speak to the entire Evangelical Christian community. Ken is the founder and sole operator of ArkHaven Ministries. Ken uses the apologetics style of writing, and is well known for being academic, thorough, and gracious. His prior career as a computer professional influenced this style of writing. Ken is a revivalist whose burning desire is to see churches, cities, regions, and whole nations completely transformed by the power of God.

In 1986, at age fifty, he went into full time ministry, concentrating his efforts on writing a newsletter, articles for a local paper, and working on a book. Since going into ministry work he has studied church history and related subjects extensively, such as Bible manuscript history, Bible translations, and Holy Land archeology. He also is interested in such subjects as cosmology, astronomy, geophysics, paleontology, anthropology, Egyptology, naturopathy, and horticulture. His interest was never of the intellectual sort, quite the opposite. His quest was more of the mystical or spiritual sort, wanting to gain a broader and deeper understanding of God and His creation. Leonard Ravenhill said in one of his letters that Ken was "educated in the Holy Ghost school of silence."

Ken was an honor student and all-conference basketball center in his high school years (1952-56). Then he spent three years in the Army (1957-60), two of which were spent in Germany. In July of 2005 Ken and his wife, Joyce, celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary. Joyce died in December 2005. They have three sons and seven grandchildren.

Ken's father was a first stringer at the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and a Golden Gloves boxer in 1932, 33, & 34, and was a successful educator and coach.

Ken believes that anyone who has studied church history extensively will have grown beyond the boundaries of the fellowship of believers they believe God would have them worship with. We can only be in one church, but our paradigm can be much larger than the doctrine of that one church. That is why Ken feels that he can speak to the entire Evangelical Christian community (and Ken considers Charismatics and Pentecostals to be Evangelical). And this uniquely qualifies Ken to be able to edit the work of fellow writers from many different doctrinal groups.

Read more about this ministry and visionary at www.arkhaven.org/about_author.htm