CH (COL) Pete Sniffin (D.Min.) is President’s Professor of Pastoral Theology. Chaplain Sniffin’s academic interests include ministry leadership and expository preaching.
Chaplain Sniffin has extensive ministry experience having served as an active-duty U.S. Army Chaplain for 30 years. He is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Chaplain Sniffin spiritually led soldiers across the United States and overseas to include service as the Chief of Religious Support Operations for all U.S. personnel in the Afghanistan theater of war. During his tenure as a chaplain, he also led multiple military chapel congregation in the U.S., overseas and in the combat theater. He served as the Director of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center and as the 41st Commandant of the U.S. Chaplain Center & School, leading that institution to its highest ever accreditation rating and designation as a U.S. Army “Institution of Excellence.” Chaplain Sniffin was inducted by the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains as a Charter Member of the College of Military Preaching. In retirement from active duty, Chaplain Sniffin has served as Ligonier Ministries Senior Advisor for Chaplain Outreach, as Professor of Chaplaincy Studies at Birmingham Theological Seminary, and as an Assistant Professor of Leadership at Liberty University.
Education:
- DMin in Ministry Leadership, Rawlings School of Divinity, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
- ThM in Ministry (Preaching), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA
- MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
- MSS, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA
- MMAS, United States Army Command & General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS
- BA in English, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA
Congregational Ministry:
- Co-Pastor, New Kabul Compound Chapel, Kabul, Afghanistan
- Assistant Pastor, Tower Barracks Chapel, Grafenwohr, Germany
- Lead Pastor, Wiesbaden Army Airfield Chapel, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Interim Pastor, Lee Barracks Chapel, Dexheim, Germany
- Lead Pastor, Faith Community Chapel, Fort Bragg, NC
- Lead Pastor, Wiesbaden Air Base Chapel, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Associate Pastor, Freedom Chapel, Fort Stewart, GA
- Associate Pastor, Chapel in the Vale, Fort Stewart, GA
Teaching & Professional History:
- Professor of Chaplaincy Studies & Director of Chaplain Programs, Birmingham Theological Seminary, Birmingham, AL
- Assistant Professor of Leadership, College of Arts & Sciences and Rawlings Divinity School, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
- Senior Advisor for Chaplain Outreach, Ligonier Ministries, Sanford, FL
- Assistant Professor of Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA
- Director, Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center, Fort Jackson, SC
- Commandant, U.S. Army Chaplain Center & School, Fort Jackson, SC