Paul Kooistra

Paul Kooistra was the past President of Covenant Theological Seminary, Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina.
Kooistra was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and received an M.Div. from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama.
Kooistra is a Presbyterian minister and the past coordinator of Mission to the World, the missions agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He was elected moderator of the 2008-2009 General Assembly of the PCA.
He served as a pastor and professor at Belhaven College and Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, and president of Covenant Theological Seminary (the official seminary of the PCA).
Kooistra has written devotional booklets "Thirty-One Days of Grace", "Supper's Ready" and "Pursuit of Joy".
On July 18, 2014, he was elected president of both Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary, which are affiliated with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. However, he resigned in 2016 after an unsuccessful attempt at separating the seminary from the college to protect the seminary from LGBTQ activism.