Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond was a senior staff member and vice president at-large with InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship/USA™ and leader of its Ministry In Daily Life Resource
Group. He was a pioneer of evangelism and
ethnic ministries within InterVarsity and launched a ministry to students headed
for the secular marketplace.
His work with Marketplace resulted in numerous products aimed at graduating collegians and “marketplace Christians.” These have included ten years of hosting the national “Marketplace Voices” daily radio program, and launching two marketplace newsletters. He was also the initiator, team-leader and creative developer of the award-winning Word in Life Study Bible, published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
He has been on the leadership team of the Urbana® Student Missions convention for 30 years. He is widely recognized as a productive evangelist and effective lecturer. Mr. Hammond was active in church renewal and the laity movement, and served on the board of Christianity Today. A former Presbyterian Church (USA) elder, Pete earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Bible and philosophy in 1959 from Houghton College, New York. He went on to receive a Master of Divinity degree in 1962 from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton MA.
Pete Hammond passed from this life to the next, in Madison, Wisconsin, shortly after his wife Shirley, on December 29, 2008. He left behind three children, ten grandchildren and a lasting legacy in the form of changed people and changed organizations.
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