Joel  Kiekintveld

Joel Kiekintveld

Adjunct Faculty Member

About

Joel is the Co-Director of the Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative and a Street Psalms Senior Fellow.

For 17 years he served Parachutes Teen Club and Resource Center (Anchorage, AK), which he helped found in 2003, as Executive Director and Founding Director. Parachutes served teens ages thirteen to eighteen years old. Many of the active members of the drop-in center were high-risk and street involved. 

Joel has served as a pastor and youth pastor in both Michigan and Alaska.  He currently helps pastor the Christian spiritual community Reclaim in Anchorage, AK. He is an adjunct professor at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary.

  

Joel lives, works, and plays in Anchorage, AK, with his wife Stacey and has three daughters Naomi, Emma (and wife Kelsy, son Luka), and Sydney. Joel lives in an intentional community.

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