Dean Trune

Dean grew up in a Christian Church near Lapeer, Michigan. His father was an elder in the congregation for 25 years. Dean and his family are currently members of the South Lansing Christian Church in Lansing, Michigan. Dean claims that outside of salvation, God’s greatest blessing to him has been my wife Bonnie. They were married in 1971 and live in Okemos, Michigan. They have two adult children. The oldest, Kim, and her son, DeShawn, also live in Okemos. The youngest, Ryan, and his wife, Reka, and grandson Zane live in Phoenix, Arizona. Ryan is a doctor working at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital. They consider their children and grand kids incredible blessings from God.

He didn’t sense that God was leading him to a Bible college after high school so he attended a secular university campus. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics. He also received a master’s of science degree from U of M in engineering. Since entering the ministry, he has also completed some graduate work in ministry.

He worked at General Motors in Flint, Michigan for 12 years before God led him into ministry as the campus minister at Michigan State University for Michigan Christian Campus Ministries. After 11 years with MCCM at Michigan State, God led him to begin Harvest Campus Ministries, which was a campus ministry planting organization. A campus ministry was planted in 1995 at the State University at New York in Albany, New York. In April of 1999, the Harvest board of directors changed the ministry’s name to Impact Ministries International which now is a network of campus ministries, prayer ministries, and discipling ministries.

Additional ministries have been established in South Carolina, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, Ireland, and New Zealand.

In 1995, God uniquely opened a door for Dean to also begin leading prayer seminars around the country. To date, God has allowed Dean the opportunity to lead seminars in about forty of the states, and in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, and Thailand. He has also had the opportunity to teach on prayer in Hungary and China. God has also given him the opportunity to have a “front row seat” at several revivals on Christian campuses and university campuses. He firmly believes that prayer must be the basis of all we do individually and all we do in ministry. He also believes strongly in this statement, “God has blessed my ministry in spite of me, not because of me.” He adamantly believes that his love for God must be more passionate than his love for his family and for his ministry (especially ministry).

Dean had a book published in 2009 entitled The Path Toward Passion. It covers nine spiritual disciplines that help develop intimacy with God.

In 2010, God led the board of directors of Impact Ministries International to birth two ministries out one ministry. The result is a campus ministry called Impact Campus Ministries and a teaching/coaching ministry called Intentional Impact. Dean oversees Intentional Impact, which focuses on ways to bless the kingdom of God.

In 2011, Dean had a second book published entitled, God’s Divine Appointments. It contains instructions about divine appointments and 58 stories of his best divine appointments.

In 2012, Dean had a third book published entitled, Radical Character for Pursuing God. It contains 10 character qualities that will help us pursue God radically.

Dean’s interests include dating his wife, spending time with his kids, jogging, reading, teaching, and people.