 The chair was inaugurated in 1993 and named the Donald N. and Kathleen G. Bastian Chair of Wesley Studies.In 2016 Greenville University (formerly Greenville College) established the Donald N. and Kathleen G. Bastian School of Theology, Philosophy, and Ministry, as well as the Donald N. Bastian Chair of Pastoral Theology and Christian Ministry.Bastian, who was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, is married to the former Kathleen Swallow and the two of them have four children.