BIO:
Kelly and Connie are members of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) and Kelly is a former Ruling Elder. Connie became a Christian while in elementary school and Kelly in his first year of college in 1981. Though Connie has had an interest in missions, Kelly dragged his feet over the years! In the 1990s Hugh Wessel (of Mission to the World) explained to Kelly the need for music missionaries. This sparked an interest in missions for Kelly. In 1992, working with Scott MacNaughton (Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church), Dehnert founded the International Chamber Seminar (Telfes, Austria) for the purpose of reaching Austrian musicians with the gospel. While in the ICS planning stages, the Dehnerts were challenged by Linleigh Roberts to pursue the possibility of teaching at the African Bible College in Malawi. Within two days of hearing from Linleigh while he was in Malawi, the Dehnerts had received an incredible amount of confirmation that God was indeed sending them to Malawi to teach for one year while Kelly was on Sabbatical from Central Wyoming College. Remarkably, neither Kelly or Connie had any thought or desire of traveling to Africa for any reason prior to the events of those two days! Soon after arriving in Malawi in the fall of 2003 the Dehnerts were asked to stay on as long-term missionary faculty by the college administration. The Dehnerts returned to the United States and decided during the year following that God was calling them back to Malawi after fulfilling Kelly’s Sabbatical contractual terms. The Dehnert family is now in their second year of an indefinite, long-term commitment to African Bible College.

"Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's biggest problem..."
~ Matthew Parris in As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God