Wesley John Perschbacher was an author and professor at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois where he retired. The son of Garfield Clayton Perschbacher and Rienskje Basstra, Wesley was born August 20, 1932, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was a graduate of Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music, Calvin College, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He died July 31, 2012, in Bloomington, Indiana.[1]