Biographical Information

Doyle Max Kee

Childhood

Doyle was born May 13, 1938, in Tipton, Oklahoma to James and Bonnie Kee. When he was two years old, the family moved to Texas. Until Doyle was seven years old, the family moved several times: Wichita Falls, Hawley, Spur, Dickinson, and New Deal, Texas. He lived in and around Lubbock, Texas, until he was 14 years old. After two years in Bowie, Texas, he moved with his mother and three sisters to Searcy, Arkansas.

Schooling

Doyle received his high school diploma from the Harding Academy in Searcy. He received a B.A. from Harding University with a major in Bible and a minor in math. In 1963, he received a M.A. from the Harding Graduate School with emphasis on Old Testament studies. Later, Doyle received the "Diplôme de théologie moderne" (equivalent to the bachelor of divinity in the States) from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Family

In 1958, Doyle married Barbara Ethridge. Barbara has a B.A. from Harding University in music. They have four children: Mark, David, Bonnie, and Daniel. The three older children are married and there are five grandchildren. All the children and in-laws are active Christians.

Work

Doyle worked in campaigns in the northeast of the USA while in school. He preached a year for the church in Sitka, Alaska, while working in a hospital. While in school, he preached for the church in West Point, Arkansas. His first full-time preaching ministry was with the church in Clarendon, Arkansas. From 1963 to 1969, Doyle preached for the church in Syracuse, N.Y. After working in French-speaking campaigns in Montreal and Paris, Doyle and family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in January, 1970, to begin the church. Their work there led to an independent church by 1989. Doyle and Barbara worked a year (1990-91) in the States to inform the brotherhood of needs and opportunities in the French-speaking world and to recuit workers. After helping organize a campaign in Sherbrooke, Canada in June 1991, Doyle and Barbara returned to Geneva to initiate several new ministries in the context of the French-speaking mission world. This has involved publications in French, evangelistic and medical campaigns in Europe and Africa. Follow-up work and church planting continues in Romania, Strasbourg, France, Central African Republic and Madagascar.

Special Activities

• Doyle published a small magazine in French from 1970 to 1990.
  
• He helped organize and coordinate two of the first International Fellowship of European churches (Strasbourg '83 and Metz '87).
  
• He edited and published ten books in French on various subjects.
  
• He translated and published in color the John Hurt correspondence course.
  
• He has thus far edited and published in French 19 of the 22 books of the "Living Word Commentary" series.
  
• He has made nine missionary trips to the Muslem northern provinces of French-speaking Cameroon (West Africa) to help the development of churches in that area and to give guidance to three national workers. More recently he has worked in Madagascar, Chad, Togo, Central African Republic and Bénin.
  
• Doyle has developed the School of the Master (Ecole du Maître), a two-year leadership training program by correspondence, which is being used throughout the French world.
  
• He has helped in the establishment of a Center of Biblical Formation for French Africa in Cotonou, Bénin.
  
• In Cotonou, Bénin, he has set up for French Africa a central office of the World Bible School.
  
• Doyle is responsable for the world-wide distribution of the French version of the leadership training magazine "Truth for Today".
  
• The latest ministry has been the placing of a home page on the internet for Bible teaching resources in French and another home page for the French-speaking churches of Christ in Europe.
  

Barbara has raised four children, worked with a world-wide French correspondence course program, and is developping a complete three-year French Bible study program for children's classes.