Dean, School of Intercultural Studies

Professor of Intercultural Studies

• Ph.D., Washington State University
• M.A., Washington State University, Pullman
• B.A., Western Oregon University

The son of New Tribes missionaries to the Philippines, Dr. Pennoyer spent his childhood years among the Mt. Pinatubo Negritos of Zambales province. He attended elementary schools in Tondo, Manila and Villar, Iba and Botolan, Zambales. He was at Faith Academy from 1959-1963, and graduated from Kings High in Seattle in 1965. In 1973-74, he studied the religion and customs of the Tawbuid tribe. His thesis, Tawbuid Plants and Ritual Complexes, and six subsequent articles in professional journals, are the only comprehensive published statements on this isolated tribal group of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. He worked for seven years (1975-1982) with one of the nation's largest multi-tribal councils, the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington (STOWW). As the Executive Director of a staff of thirty, and an annual budget in excess of $1 million, he ran socio-economic, health, legal, and natural resource programs for 18 small tribes in Washington and Oregon. At Seattle Pacific University (1983-1991) he headed up the Intercultural Institute of Missions, a coordinative entity on campus that worked with the faculty, staff, and students at SPU to strengthen the missions program and to develop, promote and seek funding for missions and international programming. He also ran a Greater Seattle annual missions conference, administered a Pew Foundation grant to internationalize the curriculum of Christian colleges, and acted as the recruiter and training host for an ESI summer program that sent people to China to teach English. Dr. Pennoyer came to Biola from the Snohomish Free Methodist Church where he was the Senior Pastor (1991-1998). In 1997, he was ordained an Elder by the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America. During the 1989-90 school year, he also preached and taught Bible classes at Eastside Free Methodist in Bellevue, Washington. He planted and co-pastored a non-denominational church, Family Bible Fellowship of Puyallup (1976-1981). He is a member of the Southern California Conference of the Free Methodist Church, serves on the Board of FEBC, and is the President of the Evangelical Missiological Society. Dr. Pennoyer and his wife Joann have four children, Heather Kooiman, Rachel McClelland, Amanda, and Timothy, and a grandson, Samuel Kooiman. They live in Hacienda Heights, Calif.

Publications

Books, Articles

• “Negritos of SE Asia”, “Negritos, the Ayta of Mt. Pinatubo” “Moros of Mindanao” in Carl Skutsch, ed. Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York Routledge. 2005
• “Christology and Transformation - A Focus on Genealogy and Transformational Roles” in Luis K. Bush, ed. A Unifying Vision of the Church's Mission. Pattaya, Thailand LCWE. 2004
• “Caring for the Harvest Force in the New Millennium.” Tom Steffen and F. Douglas Pennoyer, eds. Pasadena William Carey Library 2001
• “Rival Forces in Spiritual Warfare.” Light and Life Magazine, February. 1996
• “Wrestling with Dark Angels Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Supernatural Forces of Spiritual Warfare.” Edited with C. Peter Wagner. Ventura, CA Regal. 1990
• “Demonic Captivity of Primitive Tribes.” Light and Life Magazine, March. 1990
• “Inati The Hidden Negrito Language of Panay”, Philippines Philippine Journal of Linguistics . Vol. 17, No. 2, Vol. 18, No. 1. 1987
• “People of the Moon with Ken Tollefson.” A socio-political study of the Snoqualmie Indian tribe 1848-1986 submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Acknowledgement Project. 1986
• “Ritual in Tawbuid Life”, in Anthropos, Internationale Zeitschrift fur volker-und Sprachenkunde, St. Augustin, Deutschland, 70, 693-709. 1980.
• “Spirits, Specialists and Tawbuid Cosmos”, in Folk, Dansk Ethnografist Forening Kobenhavn, 18, 247-261. 1976.

Source: http://cook.biola.edu/grad/faculty/douglas_pennoyer/