Ken Anderson Biography
Ken Anderson Biography Ken Anderson, 88, founder of Gospel Films, author of 77 books and founder of Ken Anderson Films. Born in Buena Vista County, Iowa, Anderson was raised by a godly grandmother and father following the death of his mother shortly after childbirth. In 1938 he married Doris Jones, known worldwide as “Mrs. A,” who survives. Anderson attended Wheaton and Trinity colleges, and was licensed to the ministry by the Evangelical Free Church. He pastored in Isle, Minnesota, and later in Newman Grove, Nebraska. In the early 1940s he got involved in the newly-formed ministry Youth For Christ, which was founded in Winona Lake, Indiana, by Billy Graham and others, and Anderson became the first full-time editor of the YFC magazine, which now is “Campus Life” magazine, published by Christianity Today, Inc. Through YFC he met Bob Pierce, who invited him to China in 1948, where the two preached to tens of thousands of young people in more than a dozen cities. A short documentary ...