Dr. Frank D. Hankins-Affiliate Assistant Professor of Leadership, MAGL Cohort Mentor; ML523: Mentoring 

Dr. Frank Hankins is co-director of the Network for Developing Latin Leaders (www.ndll.net; and www.nexolatino.wordpress.com), an informal leadership development movement with centers in four Latin American countries.   

After 3 years as a pastor in California, he was on site missionary in Ecuador for 21 years. He continues his work throughout the Latin America region through virtual formats and on site visits. He has taught leadership and mentoring courses in various seminaries and institutes in that region. He has mentoring relationship with leaders in other regions of the world also.  

Frank graduated from Vanguard University in 1977. He went on to earn two Masters Degrees from Fuller Seminary, a Master of Arts in Theology in 1982 and Master of Arts in Cross-Cultural Studies in 1984. In 2003, Frank was awarded the Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Seminary. His thesis explored the spontaneous or informal nature of mentoring in Latino contexts.  

From 2000 to 2004 he team-taught a Fuller Doctor of Ministry course as an adjunct instructor with Dr. J. Robert Clinton.  In March 2003, Frank was awarded the Doctor of Ministry in Global Ministries from Fuller Seminary.  In 2005 he began to teach with Fuller Online and later with MAGL in 2007.  

Frank’s life purpose is to enjoy a passionate friendship with God and serve as a renewed Barnabas type leader to leaders-in-ministry so that they and those that he serves may continue well and finish well. Frank and his wife, Ruthie, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They have three daughters in their twenties. Frank enjoys hiking, camping, and photography.