The Gospel in 10,000 boxes
BAGUIO, Philippines — Filipino Christians gasp as Chris Swinford tells them what he found in a box in an African village. Speaking to a packed auditorium…
Erik Tryggestad
Editor
Erik Tryggestad joined the staff of The Christian Chronicle in 2001 after working as a writer and assistant editor for the Savannah Morning News in Georgia. His favorite part of working for the Chronicle is covering international news. He’s a regular participant in mission trips abroad and has filed stories for the Chronicle from more than 65 nations. He became the Chronicle’s editor in December 2013.
Born in Falls Church, Va., he grew up in Macon, Ga., at the Southside Church of Christ (now Thomaston Road Church of Christ) and graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1996. He earned a master’s in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1999 and was a reporter for the Athens Daily News. He was an active member of the Georgia Christian Student Center at the Campus View Church of Christ and remains a die-hard fan of the Georgia Bulldogs.
Tryggestad is a deacon of the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, where he met his wife, Jeanie. Dr. Jeanie Tryggestad is a pediatric endocrinologist and attending physician for the Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center. She’s also a frequent teacher of Bible classes for children. The Tryggestads have two daughters.
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A seeker finds his voice
MANILA, Philippines — He seems like an unlikely candidate to receive Sunset International Bible Institute’s 10,000th solar player. And his country seems like an unlikely place…
Duck boat tragedy claims three church members
When they boarded a tourist “duck boat” in southwest Missouri, it’s unlikely that Steve Smith and his two children, Lance and Loren, realized they were…
Prayers — and food — for Venezuela
'We can’t save the whole country, but we can help.” Michael Hursey and Russ Garner believe that fervently when they speak about Venezuela, a place…
Can Churches of Christ be saved?
KRESS, Texas — "Oh land of rest, for thee I sigh. When will the moment come, when I shall lay my armor by, and dwell in…
Churches of Christ in India respond to Kerala floods
The worst monsoon floods in a century have claimed more than 350 lives since June and displaced nearly a million people in the Indian state…
Just how dangerous is Central America?
Immigrants who illegally cross the border into the U.S. often do so because life in their home nations has become too dangerous. Among those nations…
At the border, a prayer for ‘forgotten people’
REYNOSA, Mexico — Virginia Chaves knows what people think of her. “We have a bad reputation,” says the 51-year-old Mexico City native, who worked for…
Responding to that other crisis on the border
McALLEN, Texas — For weeks, the world’s attention focused on this south Texas city and others along the U.S./Mexico border. News of mothers separated from…
‘We do not go to church anymore’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ‘I don’t know how they can ever fire me now,” Joey Spann said of his church. “I mean, how could they tell me I…
