Dr. Friesen brings more than a dozen years of pastoral experience to Mars Hill Graduate School. Dwight was the community-curate of an Eastside emerging simple church for more than eleven years; he is licensed and ordained by the Christian & Missionary Alliance.  Dwight earned his Doctor of Ministry degree at George Fox University, where his dissertation research focused on the development of a relational hermeneutic toward connective church leadership and structure. He earned his masters degree from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois and his undergraduate degree from Ambrose University College in Calgary, Alberta. He is active locally and internationally with missional and emerging church movements, serves on the “Faith & Order Commission” of the National Council of Churches and blogs irregularly at www.dwightfriesen.com. Dwight, his wife Lynette and their son Pascal live in Bellevue, Washington.