New president for Tyndale House Foundation

Jeremy Taylor has been installed as president and CEO of Carol Stream-based Tyndale House Foundation, becoming only the third president in the foundation's history.

Jeremy Taylor, who has served on the foundation's board of directors since 2005, replaces his father, Mark Taylor. Mark Taylor served as president of the foundation from 1973 to 2018 and continues as chairman and CEO of Tyndale House Publishers.

At an installation service held at Tyndale House Publishers on Oct. 1, Mark Taylor handed Jeremy a baton, symbolizing the transfer of leadership.

"In a relay race, each runner carries the baton, and they pass it from hand to hand," Mark Taylor said. "My father (Kenneth Taylor) handed me the leadership of the foundation in 1973. Today I pass this baton to you as a visual image that I am passing the responsibility of leadership of the foundation to you."

As a fiction editor at Tyndale House Publishers for 20 years, Jeremy Taylor has worked with some of the industry's top authors. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Wheaton College and is pursuing a master's in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Jeremy and his wife, Nancy, live with their five children in Wheaton.

Tyndale House Foundation was established by Kenneth and Margaret Taylor in 1963 - a year after the initial publication of "Living Letters," the New Testament Epistles paraphrased by Kenneth Taylor. Although the Taylors had 10 children and lived on a modest income, Taylor established Tyndale House Foundation to distribute the royalties through grants to support Christian work around the world.

During the second year of its publication, 600,000 copies of "Living Letters" were distributed by the Billy Graham Association and those royalties were the first funds paid into the foundation.

For more than 50 years, the foundation has received all royalties from the sales of "Living Letters," "The Living Bible" and the "New Living Translation." In 2001 Ken and Margaret Taylor transferred ownership of Tyndale House Publishers to the foundation and, as a result, dividends from the profitable operations of the publishing company also now flow to the foundation.

The foundation uses all those funds to make grants for Christian ministry around the world.

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world's largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles and digital media.