GET TO KNOW HUTCH
Ken Hutcherson left an award-winning professional football career in 1977, due to a knee injury, and took with him a no-nonsense attitude and an intense drive to communicate the gospel. As a Dallas Cowboy, a San Diego Charger, and, finally, a Seattle Seahawk, he had pursued a life of athletic discipline. Translating this into the spiritual realm, “Hutch” applied himself vigorously to the study of the Bible under Howard Hendricks, Tim LaHaye, and Wilbur J. Antisdale, who had instructed him within Pro Athletes Outreach.
Hutcherson attended Cascade Bible College in Bellevue, Washington, until 1979, adding post-graduate theological studies to his 1974 bachelors degree in education from Alabama’s Livingston University (where he had also been an All-American football player from 1972 to1974).
Setting his sights on ministry, Hutch served eight years as director of high school ministries at Westminster Chapel in Bellevue, Washington. In 1984, he started Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, along with Mark Webster and Dwight Englund. Hutcherson accepted the position of senior pastor in 1985 and was ordained in 1986.
Throughout his career Ken Hutcherson has been a tremendously popular speaker - sharing his faith at churches, conferences, retreats, outreach programs, as a three-time special guest speaker on the Billy Graham Crusade team, and at PAO.
As Antioch blossomed into a thriving multiracial worship center, Hutch honed his message about what God’s true intentions for the body of Christ were in relationship to the modern-day church. "The greatest need today in the church - which does not seem to be important in the average church - is the training of people in evangelism, discipleship and the responsibility they have for the church and responsibility they have for God," said Hutcherson. "So many of our churches today are afraid to stand on the disciplines and Word of God."
He published The Church: What We Are Meant to Be (now re-released as Here Comes the Bride) in March 1998, and Before All Hell Breaks Loose in May, 2001.
