Erik Tryggestad
Assistant Managing Editor
Recent Articles
- In Haiti, 'the solution is development'
- Faith in a land of zombies
- Smashing idols in West Africa
- Couple shows God’s love in Afghanistan
- Video games, Ugandan warlord and flip-flops take the stage at Tulsa Workshop
- Africans encouraged to be ‘just Christians’
- Indigenous church asks Church of Christ to help replace its slain pastor
- Around the World, May 2012
- Living the Thai Life: Texas students serve in Southeast Asia
- In U.S., Kenyans see God’s love after medical nightmare
Recent Blog Posts
- Christians in Africa, U.S., mourn loss of Berkeley Hackett, pioneering missionary to Kenya
- Oklahoma Christian students help extinguish dorm fire in Tanzania
- African church hosts Deaf Awareness Day
- Texas minister heads effort to replace house of family who lost daughter to fire
- High-flying video urges believers to share faith in the workplace
- A snake-handling Church of Christ? Fiction author makes unfortunate name choice
- Ecuador missionary Dottie McBride dies at 67
- Update: More anti-Christian attacks in northern Nigeria
- Minister killed while attempting to aid pregnant shooting victim
- Pepperdine Bible Lectures celebrate 'The Rushford Years'
Credentials
Member, Associated Church Press
Member, Professional chapter, Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists
Background
Erik Tryggestad joined the staff of the Chronicle in 2001 after working as a writer and assistant civic editor for the Savannah, Ga., Morning News. He is the Chronicle's assistant managing editor, covering international news and features. During his time with the Chronicle, Tryggestad has filed stories from more than 30 countries.
Born near Washington, D.C., he grew up in Macon, Ga., and graduated from Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1996. He earned a master's in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1999 and was a reporter for the Athens, Ga., Daily News. He was an active member of the Georgia Christian Student Center and remains a die-hard fan of the Georgia Bulldogs.
Tryggestad met his wife, Jeanie, in Oklahoma. Dr. Jeanie Tryggestad is a fellow in pediatric endocrinology at the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma. They are active members of the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. Their daughter, Maggie, was born in 2008.
One of his most treasured possessions is a pair of sneakers that walked on the soil of four continents — North America, South America, Europe and Africa — within one calendar year. The shoes, now mostly brown, are enshrined in his closet, much to his wife's chagrin.
