Erik Tryggestad
Assistant Managing Editor
Recent Articles
- Camp mainstay Cecil Perkins mourned
- Missionaries return after five years of nurturing churches in Ukraine
- Texas boy’s legacy will live on in Africa
- Fear and faith: As Kenya battles terrorists, church looks to take the Gospel to its increasingly Muslim neighborhood
- Christians offer 'Seoul-ful' prayers for North Korea
- Around the World, February 2012
- Remembering 2011: The year in quotes
- From Bible smugglers to suppliers: Eastern European Mission at 50
- Fortune and faith in Costa Rica: In the land of 'pure life,' Churches of Christ seek to reach their secular culture
- Around the World, January 2012
Recent Blog Posts
- Video: Arkansas minister helps neighbors who 'fall through the cracks'
- Reader feedback: What is the future of non-denominational Christianity in the U.S.?
- Updated: Pioneering missionary Maxine Timmerman dies
- Updated: Members injured, church buildings destroyed in Philippines quake
- Church member in American Samoa gets volleyball scholarship to Texas university
- Two years after Haiti quake, churches struggle to solve 'the most complex humanitarian crisis of modern times'
- Scenes from a Sunday in Nairobi
- Sunday morning sting: Man accused of stealing during worship
- In the 'sex tourism capital of the world,' Christian fights child prostitution
- West Tennessee wreck claims three church members (updated)
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.
