Dr. Gary Sivewright is Chaplain, Vice President for Campus Ministries, and Professor of Religion teaching youth ministries and Christian education at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Gary began his work at MVNU in the fall of 1991.

Before coming to Mount Vernon, Gary served as Minister of Youth at Bethay, Oklahoma First Church of the Nazarene and Shawnee, Kansas Church of the Nazarene from 1972-1979. In December of 1979, he joined the staff of Nazarene Youth International Ministries as editor of junior high curriculum. Gary later became editor of two teen magazines, Bread, and Teens Today, Bread winning the prestigious Award of Excellence from the Evangelical Press Association in 1986.  He was elected Director of NYI Ministries in 1986. He has authored five books: Following, Still Following, and I Choose to Follow and A New Thing devotional books for teens; Walking by Faith in Jesus Alone Together, a Bible study guide for World Youth Congress 1983; and co-wrote Parents, Teens, and Other Strangers -- The ABC"s of Family Communication with Dr. Dan Croy of Olathe, Kansas. Gary speaks to thousands each year in camps, retreats, revivals, conventions and conferences and is a frequent contributor to Holiness Today magazine.

Sivewright's latest project is Gary Sivewright's FamilyWorks, an eight-hour seminar to aid local churches in their ministry to the family. Focusing on communication between parents and teens and parents and kids, Sivewright uses interactive exercises to let families see the responsibilities they have to each other to build a Christian home. As one childrens pastor said after experiencing FamilyWorks, "You had us talk about things I knew I should be asking my children, but never found the time." Though a majority of FamilyWorks is spent working with families, time is also spent showing the Church how it can be a support network for parents and their children. 

Dr. Sivewright is a graduate of Southern Nazarene University, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and earned his doctorate from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Gary and his wife, Carol, are the parents of two grown children, Chad and Jason.