Images of the digital administrative offices showing the library and reception area.
Our leadership team oversees specialized departments, including the Department of Research and the Department of Education, which are crucial for monitoring global trends and managing the certified Godhunter curriculum and course offerings. Although all religious viewpoints are welcome to use our resources, our management team (not necessarily all our volunteers) are Christians ascribing to various traditional orthodox views.
President: John J. Tollefsen
Dr. Tollefsen is the Founding President of God-hunting Resources. His relevant experience includes that of a CEO of an Internet content company, international business and non-profit work, and business training. In addition, he is an experienced attorney and retired Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Controls Specialist with over 50 years of experience in business law and complex financial litigation. He served as an Assistant Instructor in Forensic Accounting. In addition to his legal and business expertise, he holds multiple advanced degrees in theology and Christian leadership, including a master’s in theology and a Diploma in Christian Apologetics. For more information
Director: Dr. Philip B. Payne
Education: B.S. Wheaton College, Illinois, 1969 – M.A. NT Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Ill. 1972 – M.Div. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Ill., 1973 – Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institut, 1973 NT research under Peter Stuhlmacher Tübingen University, 1973 – 1974 – Ph.D. NT under J.P.M. Sweet, C.F.D. Moule, University of Cambridge 1976.
Philip B. Payne has been a supervisor of New Testament Studies in many of the colleges of The University of Cambridge and has taught New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and is supervising a Ph.D. student at Columbia International University.
Philip Barton Payne, the founder and president of
Linguist’s Software, is a specialist in New Testament Studies. He is well known for his studies on New Testament Textual Criticism, the Parables of Jesus, and Man and Woman in the Teachings of Paul. He and his wife Nancy were missionaries in Japan with the Evangelical Free Church, where they ministered to students in the Kyoto Christian Studies Center and lectured on the New Testament in various Japanese Seminaries. Phil started Linguist’s Software in 1984 in response to requests for the Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese fonts he had created for use in his studies and ministry. His company now sells fonts supporting more than 2600 languages. Phil and Nancy have three children: David, Kimiko, and Brendan.
For more information, visit
https://pbpayne.com/
Director: Lane E. Tollefsen
Education: B.A. U.C.L.A. 1975 – M.R.E. Western Seminary 1978 – M.I.T. City University, Seattle, Washington, 2001
Lane Tollefsen is a retired teacher who has taught for more than 25 years in Washington state, teaching in public schools and a private Christian school. She is married to John Tollefsen, and they have two children, Kristen and Justin. Lane also serves as Secretary-Treasurer of God-hunting Resources.
Director: Pr. Laurent Cleenewerk de Kiev
Education: Bac C (France) – BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) Informatique de Gestion – BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) Commerce International – DUESTC, Université Montpellier II, IAU – Licence (Licentiate) in Orthodox Theology (Institut Saint Serge, Paris) – Master in Ecumenical Studies (Ukrainian Catholic University) – Doctorate in the Study of Religion / PhD in Eastern Orthodox Christian Studies, St Gregory Nazianzen Institute -Master of Divinity (Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, 50 credits completed) – Master of Public Health (EUCLID faculty track) and Coursera Certificates – Global Health Delivery (Harvard) – Ph.D. in Public Health (UCN)
Pr. Cleenewerk de Kiev’s current professional activities include: International Faculty Coordinator & Oversight Council Chairman at EUCLID (Pôle Universitaire EUCLIDE / Euclid University); Associate Professor of Global Health and Bioethics; Professor of International Administration and Theology (EUCLID / Euclid University); Global Academic Chairman at the Euler-Franeker Memorial University; and Faculty at Ukrainian Catholic University (Institute of Ecumenical Studies)
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK), a member of the International Association of Bioethics / American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, certified in Global Health Delivery (Harvard) and Bioethics & Genomics (HarvardX & USCF)
For more information, visit
https://cleenewerck.org/
