Karen P. Kennemur
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- M.A.C.E. in Childhood Education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- B.B.A. in Marketing/Management, Baylor University
Dr. Kennemur serves as professor of children’s ministry in the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries. She holds the Bessie Fleming Chair of Childhood education. Dr. Kennemur also serves with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention where she is the children’s ministry and family ministry associate. Prior to teaching, she worked in the local church as a preschool and children’s minister and weekday director.
Dr. Kennemur’s passions are working with and training preschool, children’s, and family ministers. Kennemur is the author of “Teaching Children” in The Teaching Ministry of the Church (2nd Ed. B&H, 2008) and “Nurturing Faith in the Home: Equipping Parents of Children to be Spiritual Leaders” in Family Ministry and the Church: A Leader’s Guide for Ministry To, With, and Through Families (Randall House, 2017). She has also written Sunday School, camp, and retreat curriculum. Dr. Kennemur is a member of the Baptist Association of Christian Educators, Early Childhood Christian Network, and the Society of Professors in Christian Education.
She is married to Danny. They have three children, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren.
Meet Karen Kennemur
Long before Karen Kennemur became professor of children’s ministry and Bessie Fleming Chair of Childhood Education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary her family roots at the institution were already deep. Her dad, Jerry Poteet, was a student at Southwestern when she was born at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth, and she and her family lived on campus until he graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1973. Kennemur’s late mother, Carolyn, worked for the Baptist Radio and Television Commission while her dad was in school.