Hayford grad­u­at­ed from L.I.F.E. Bi­ble Coll­ege, Los An­ge­les (1956) and Azu­sa Pa­ci­fic Un­i­ver­si­ty, Azu­sa, Cal­i­for­nia (1970). He was the na­tion­al youth di­rect­or of the In­ter­na­tion­al Church of the Four­square Gos­pel from 1956 to 1973. In 1965, he joined the fa­cul­ty of L.I.F.E. Bi­ble Coll­ege, and went on to be­come dean of stu­dents there, and its pre­si­dent in 1977. He al­so found time to serve as pas­tor at Church of the Way, start­ing in 1969; this church event­u­al­ly grew to over 7,000 mem­bers.

• Young, pp. 765-6

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