Bruce Wilkinson

[2] Wilkinson started his career as a college professor at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Wilkinson traveled to Russia to teach in conjunction with the presentation of the Jesus film.

As part of this new project, he launched "Heart for Africa", which mobilized volunteers to plant backyard vegetable gardens for orphans and people living with hunger.

TEN was formed to provide "innovative, practical and culturally relevant training" for pastors and leaders in the global South.

[4] Wilkinson's ministries have also reached Swaziland,[5] a country whose king, Mswati III, he tried unsuccessfully to meet during the early 2000s, leading him to return to the United States.