Born in Pennsylvania, Dr. Hunsberger lived most of his early years in Miami, Florida. He received the B.A. degree from Belhaven College in 1966 and the M.Div. degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in 1970. In 1987, he received the Ph.D. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in the field of Ecumenics, Missiology, and the History of Religions. His doctoral work focused on Lesslie Newbigin’s theology of cultural plurality.
George is Professor of Missiology and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, where he has taught since 1989. An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), he has served as a university campus minister in Florida, as pastor of a Presbyterian congregation in Mississippi, as team leader for Africa Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya and on the faculty of Belhaven College.
George is a member of the American Society of Missiology, serving as its Secretary-Treasurer from 1988-1997 and its President from 2004-2005. Since its inception in 1987, he has coordinated The Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America (GOCN). George is the author of Bearing the Witness of the Spirit and co-author of Missional Church and Treasure in Clay Jars. He is co-editor of The Church Between Gospel and Culture, A Scandalous Prophet, and Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context.
George and his wife Katherine are the parents of Lauren (Eisnor), Peter, and Anna (Bogertman), parents-in-law of Dan Eisnor and Mark Bogertman, and grandparents of Kate, Luke and Levi Eisnor, and of Gracie Bogertman. Anna and Dan are both ordained ministers in the Reformed Church in America.