Rev. Joel E. Kim

 Rev. Joel E. Kim

Rev. Kim has taught New Testament at Westminster Seminary California since 2005 and in
2017 was appointed as the fourth president of WSC. He previously taught at Calvin Theological
Seminary and International Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, as well as in Taiwan and
Indonesia. Rev. Kim is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and has
served as a pastor in several churches in Michigan and Southern California since his graduation
from WSC in 1997.

As the son of a Christian Reformed Church minister, he was catechized in
the Three Forms of Unity from childhood. When he was nine years of age, he and his family
moved from South Korea to Southern California, where he would learn English and retain
fluency in Korean. He has served the global church through agencies such as the Southeast
Asia Partnership, and, among other notable leadership positions, he chairs the Candidates and
Credentials Committee of the Korean Southwest Presbytery of the PCA. Among other
publications, he co-edited Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert
Godfrey (Westminster Seminary California, 2012). Rev. Kim’s doctoral studies in historical
theology were with the noted scholar Professor Richard A. Muller at Calvin Theological
Seminary.

Rev. Kim and his wife, Sharon, have a daughter and a son; the family resides in Escondido and attends New Life Presbyterian Church.