Byron Klaus served as president of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) from 1999-
2015. Prior to his years of service to AGTS, he served for 20 years at Vanguard University
of Southern California in the roles of both faculty and administration. While at Vanguard
University, Dr. Klaus also served as vice president for Latin America Child Care (LACC).
The LACC (currently known as ChildHope) is a child development ministry serving over
80,000 children in 21 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to serving
at Vanguard, he served at churches in California, Texas, and Illinois.
Byron graduated from Bethany Bible College, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,
and Fuller Theological Seminary. His commitment to leadership development in growing
churches around the world has taken him to preach and develop leaders in over 50 nations
in the world.
Dr. Klaus’ scholarly work includes publications and books published by Baker Book
House, Moody Press, Logion Press, Regal Books, Hendrickson Publishers, Regnum Books
International, and Routledge Publishers. He is co-editor of Called and Empowered:
Pentecostal Mission in Global Perspective and The Globalization of Pentecostalism:
A Religion Made to Travel. He is the co-editor along with Kong Hee and Douglas P.
Petersen of the Global Pentecostal Voices book series published by Regnum Books UK.
Since retiring from the presidency of AGTS he has served as an interim university president and interim pastor. He continues his work with ChildHope, serving as the chair of the board for ChildHope Network, the foundation that supports the work of ChildHope. Additionally, he serves as a faculty coach to theological schools in North America with the Wise Stewards Initiative, a program of the In Trust Center for Theological Schools.
Byron lives with his wife, Lois, in Oregon City, OR, and is the proud father of two daughters, and a doting grandfather and great-grandfather.