Kay Arthur

Kay Arthur’s exciting, practical approach to the Scriptures has influenced thousands to use the Precept™ Inductive Bible Study Method in their personal studies. Her distinguished Christian character, Bible teaching, championing of biblical literacy, and national radio and television programs motivate others to discover truth for themselves. Kay’s passion is for people to be established in God’s Word.

 At the age of 29, a divorced mother of two working as a nurse, Kay called in sick to the hospital where she was working because she was sick at heart, sick over the life of sin she had been living. She had a religion but did not possess a relationship with God. On the morning of July 16, 1963, she fell on her knees as a sinner and rose as pure and whole in the Lord’s sight. “For ‘Whoever will call upon the name of the LORD will be saved’” Romans 10:13. (NASB). “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NASB). She hungered and thirsted for the Word of truth and began studying the Bible. Her relationship with the Lord and scriptural findings turned her sorrows into joy and her mourning into laughter.

God’s love poured down upon her in 1965 when she married a missionary with the Pocket Testament League named Jack Arthur. Together they served as missionaries in Mexico for three and a half years until health issues led them back to the States. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jack began managing a Christian radio station, and Kay began a teen Bible study. Though the study started as a small gathering in the living room of the couple’s home, it soon grew from teens to college students to adults. From the beginning of the gatherings Kay’s and Jack’s deepest desire was to establish people in God’s Word. The ministry they founded in 1970 became Precept Ministries International where they served together as CO-CEOs until February 2012 when they stepped down and their son David assumed the role of CEO.

Kay is the teacher and host of Precepts for Life, a daily television, radio, and online program which takes the student through the Bible book-by-book, verse-by-verse using Precept’s Inductive Bible Study Method. Precepts For Life TV and Radio reaches more than 75 million households each day and more than 30 countries while the online program is available to almost everyone on the planet.

Kay Arthur currently resides in Tennessee.

Jack Arthur

Jack Arthur’s unwavering commitment to the Lord continues to impact the lives of countless people through his strong faithful service to the Lord Jesus Christ and Precept Ministries International. God’s call on Jack’s life started early. Raised by his grandparents on their Indiana farm, Jack began to hear God whispering to his heart.

Five days after graduating from high school in 1944, Jack joined the Navy. Twice God removed Jack from ships that were later destroyed during the war. God’s sovereign hand was clearly on Jack’s life.

Jack later spent a few months at Purdue University, but without a clear direction for a career, he left school to go back to the family farm. In 1953, after trying his hand at various jobs, at the urging of his Sunday School teacher Jack went to Tennessee Temple University where God’s call to the mission field became evident.

The night Jack graduated from Tennessee Temple with a Th.G. in 1956, he drove his car back to Indiana, sold it and used the money to buy a ticket to Africa. Saying goodbye to his grandparents, he began an adventure that would eventually take him to 70 countries, serving with The Pocket Testament League for 10 years.

God used Jack’s passion for missions to call many others to give their lives for foreign missions as he spoke at Tennessee Temple’s chapel meetings. It was on one of these visits ‘back home’ in 1965 that Jack met a young widow with two sons, a woman two years old in the Lord who wanted to be a missionary—and who, while a student at Temple, was told by the Lord that she was going to marry “Jack Arthur.” Until that ‘night’ all Kay had was Jack’s picture on a missionary prayer card.

Little did they realize what God had in His plan. While serving the Lord as independent missionaries in Mexico for three and a half years, God gave Jack and Kay a son, David Lee Arthur. They named him David because they wanted a “man after God’s own heart”—and that he is! When Jack and Kay were forced to leave Mexico because Kay developed a heart condition, they didn’t realize that God had in mind a ministry that would reach far beyond Mexico to nearly 150 countries and 70 languages—but in His time and His way.

After returning to Chattanooga, Jack became station manager of WKES-FM, a Christian radio station, and Kay, at the request of their church, began to teach the Bible to teens in their home.

The student ministry grew to such large numbers that as they prayed about where to meet, God laid “farm” on their hearts. And a farm it was! Thirty-two acres just five minutes from the airport where eventually people would fly in from all over the world. As the ministry expanded from teens to adults and children, all hungry to know how to study God’s Word for themselves, and the workload became greater, in 1970 Jack left the radio station to work full time in the ministry. Buildings began to go up and Jack was never happier than when involved in their construction or riding the tractor again, cutting the grass and hay. It’s quite a story—a testimony of the faithfulness of God in the life of a faithful man.

Jack, who battled cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease, died peacefully in his home early in the morning of January 9th, 2017 with his loving wife of half a century, Kay, by his side. He was 90 years old. The couple had celebrated their 51st anniversary on December 16th, 2016.

Jane Hart

Jane faithfully served alongside her husband Tom as the co-national director and as director of training for Precept Ministries Canada. Her involvement with Precept Ministries’ dates back to the 1980’s when she began a Precept Inductive Bible study group in Brantford, Ontario. Her passion to see people established in God’s Word led her to become one of the first Precept workshop trainers in Canada.

Jane’s involvement with Precept Ministries dates back to the 1980s when she began a Precept Inductive Bible study group in Brantford, Ontario. Her passion to see people established in God’s Word led her to become one of the first Precept workshop trainers in Canada.

As a gifted Bible teacher and communicator, she travelled across Canada teaching inductive Bible study. Her love for the Lord was evident in her workshop training and conference speaking. Jane stepped down with her husband from national leadership in December 2012, and she continued on as director of training.

After more than 25 years of serving with Precept Ministries in Canada, in April 13th, 2013 Jane Hart left the ministry due to her health. Five years later, on April 13th, 2018, Jane passed away. Jane’s ministry and mentorship has impacted the lives of thousands of Canadians.

Tom Hart

Tom was introduced to Precept Ministries International through his wife Jane’s involvement in training programs and weekly Bible studies and became a follower of Jesus Christ in 1981. Making the transition from a career as a lawyer in a busy practice, Tom became the national director for Precept Ministries in Canada in 1992, serving together with his wife Jane in establishing the ministry.

In January 2013, after handing over national leadership responsibilities to a new national director, Tom moved into the role of director of finance and advancement. He retired from Precept Ministries Canada in March 2015 to spend more time with his family, which includes three adult children and five grandchildren.