John Allen Knight (November 8, 1931 – February 2, 2009) was a minister in the

Church of the Nazarene The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa within Johnson County, Kansas. With its members co ...

, general superintendent in the

, president of Mount Vernon Nazarene College (1972–1975), and editor of the

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, now known as Holiness Today (1975–1976). He was born in

Mineral Wells, Texas Mineral Wells is a city in Palo Pinto and Parker Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 16,788 at the 2010 census (14,644 in Palo Pinto and 2144 in Parker). The city is named for mineral wells in the area, which were highly popu ...

and died at the age of 77 while on vacation in

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. The John A. & Justine A. Knight Scholarship Fund at Southern Nazarene University is named for him and his wife.

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