Dr. Donald M. Joy --

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Biographical Information

We have enjoyed several decades of serving both university and college groups and congregations through our seminars and Staley lectureships. We continue to travel throughout North America and to the Black Sea for Romanian marriage and family conferencing--and to other destinations that call us--including singles, conferences and marriage retreats.

At home a mile from Asbury Theological Seminary, we are studying "child development: in the most remarkable laboratory: hosting great grandchildren five days a week and celebrating God's good creation as we are amazed at God's grace through the generations.

Robbie is extending her career as an elementary schoolteacher and reading specialist, and Don expands his career observations as "professor of human development and family studies."

Don has lectured at more than thirty colleges and universities. In 28 years he taught more than 3,000 graduate students at Asbury Seminary who were preparing for ministry. He also hosted more than 300 of them in once-a-week brown bag lunch groups in his office. From those exchanges his insights appear in of Men Under Construction. Below you can click for a free downloading of Walk On! That book insists that the best spiritual growth curriculum is dealing with life’s agendas, especially those which are painful. Click "Books and Resources" to the left, and check out the books and video curricula the Joys have prepared. Their “Two Become One”—God’s Blueprint for Couples updates their earlier title Lovers: What Ever Happened to Eden.

Click here to read Donald Joy's official biography written by Dr. Chris Kiesling for the web project sponsored by the North American Professors of Christian Education in their biographical gallery of "Outstanding Christian Educators of the 20th Century." For Joy's autobiography click on the autobiography link on this page.

Click on one the links at the top for a listing of Dr. Joy's Speaking Schedule, a list of his published works / resources, and on Contact Information to see how to book the Joys for working in your setting