Full name |
Edwin Leonard “Jack” Frizen, Jr. |
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Birth |
March 9, 1925, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Death | December 22, 2012, Orlando, Florida | |
Family |
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Parents |
Edwin Leonard and Hannah Sweiberg Frizen |
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Marital Status |
Married Grace Elizabeth Howell, August 3, 1950. Grace died on December 27, 2005 |
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Children |
None |
Conversion |
At the age of 7. At the age of 12 he dedicated his life to missionary service |
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Education |
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1943, 1946-1949 |
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL; BA, Anthropology |
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1949-1950 |
Columbia Bible College Graduate School; MA Missions |
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1963 |
Florida State University; MS, Guidance and Counseling |
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ca. 1977-1980 |
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; DMiss. |
Career |
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1943-1946 |
United States Navy, the Seabees. While in the service he was one of those who began the G. I. Gospel Hour, a radio program and evangelism ministry that eventually became the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade (FEGC) and later SEND |
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1949-1953 |
Member, Board of Directors, Far Eastern Gospel Crusade |
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1951-1953 |
Assistant to Executive Secretary, Home Secretary, and Treasurer of FEGC, Minneapolis |
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1954-1957 |
Philippine Treasurer and Business Manager, FEGC |
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1958 |
Furlough |
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1959-1963 |
Missionary to the Philippines, FEGC |
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1963-1991 |
Executive Secretary (1963-1974) & Executive Director (1975-1991) of International Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) |
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1964-1992 |
Member of the board of directors of Tyndale House Foundation |
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1977-1993? |
Trustee of the Henry Parsons & Susan Coleman Crowell Trust and secretary & treasurer (ca. 1984-1988) |
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1986-1987 |
President of Wheaton College Alumni Association |
| 1991-1992 | Consulting director with IFMA | |
| 1998-1999 | Acting U. S. Director for Pioneers-USA | |
Other significant information |
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1976 |
Layman of the Year, National Association of Evangelicals, 1976 |
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1977 |
Co-editor, Evangelical Missions Tomorrow |
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1992 |
Authored, 75 Years of IFMA, 1917-1992 : The Nondenominational Missions Movement , based on his doctoral dissertation |
| 1992 | Distinguished Alumnus, Columbia International University. In 2002, the Pioneers Frizen Missionary Training Center was named in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Frizen. | |
| 2002 | The Pioneers Frizen Missionary Training Center was named in honor of Jack and Grace Frizen. | |
| 2009 | Received the Pioneers' Lifetime Ministry Achievement Award | |
| 2010 | CrossGlobal Link Lifetime Service Award | |
| Member of the board of directors of numerous Evangelical organizations, including the Evangelical Missions Information Service, the National Association of Evangelicals, the World Evangelical Alliance | ||
| Member and elder at the College Church of Wheaton, Illinois, USA where he led the early morning prayer service for 17 years | ||
| Member of the Filipino International Church of Orlando, Florida, USA | ||