Dr. Pieter Pikkert

Peter has a B.Th. from Prairie Bible College, an M.S.Sc. from Syracuse University and a D.Th. from the University of South Africa. He also graduated from the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, has the CELTA Certificate, Leicester University's Advanced Diploma in TESOL, the Advanced Diploma in Arabic from the University of Jordan (Amman) and has studied Turkish at the University of Istanbul.

He is comfortable in 4 languages, Arabic, Dutch, English and Turkish, and has written numerous articles and a number of books, including The Fall of Christendom and the Rise of the Church, two descriptive grammars, A Basic Course in Modern Kurmanji and A Basic Course in Modern Turkish, such novels as Desecrated Lands and The Visitor, as well as Protestant Missionaries to the Middle East: Ambassadors of Christ or Culture?

He is an adjunct faculty member at Toronto Baptist Seminary and is the lead facilitator for the applied linguistics course PLANTS taught by MissionPrep (Toronto).

Peter has spent much of his adult life teaching Bible and Theology in the Middle East and, together with his wife Anna, continues to reside there--when not teaching elsewhere. They have two children, Owen and Rita.