Greg Laurie
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Greg Laurie (born 10 December 1952) serves as the senior pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship, a Calvary Chapel, in Riverside, California.
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[edit] Ministry
He became a Christian under the ministry of Pentecostal evangelist Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Harbor High School. Then, at the age of 19, he had the opportunity to lead a Bible-study of 30 people originally started by Frisbee at All Saints Episcopal Church in Riverside, CA. The church that formed from this group has grown to become one of the largest churches in the United States.[citation needed]
Laurie holds two honorary doctorates (from Biola University and Azusa Pacific University), although his formal education ceased at high school. He serves on the boards of directors for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association[1] and for Samaritan's Purse.[2]
[edit] Publishing and media
Laurie has written several books, including The Upside-Down Church (1999, co-authoured with David Kopp: the book won a Gold Medallion Book Award in the "Christian ministry' category[3] in 2000), Every Day with Jesus (1993), and Wrestling with God (2003). Most recently he has published Loser and Winners, Saints and Sinners: how to finish strong in the spiritual race. He also worked as a contributing author of study notes for the New Believer’s Bible and the The Seeker’s Bible: New Testament : New Living Translation (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2000, ISBN 0842339280).
Host of the television program Knowing God with Greg Laurie and of the syndicated radio program A New Beginning, Laurie has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, Fox News, MSNBC,and CNN. He also functions as a guest commentator at Worldnetdaily.com, and appears regularly on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Laurie also founded (1990) and features as a speaker for public evangelistic events called Harvest Crusades — large-scale evangelistic outreach projects which local churches organize nationally and internationally. Well over three million people have attended Harvest Crusades in California, Seattle, Oregon, Philadelphia, New York, Hawaii, Florida, North Carolina, New Zealand and Australia.
[edit] Personal life
Laurie resides in Newport Beach, California with his wife, Catherine. They have two sons: Christopher (1975) and Jonathan (1986); and granddaughter Stella (2006).
[edit] Published works
- Loser and winners, saints and sinners: how to finish strong in the spiritual race. New York: Warner Faith, 2005, ISBN 0-446-50015-1
- Why Believe
- A Passion For God. Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 1998, ISBN 1565078020
- Marriage Connections. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0842353569
- Discipleship : giving God your best. Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House, 1993, ISBN 1565070399
- Living Water (cartoon tract). Maranatha Publications/Maranatha! Evangelical Assoc, 1972
- Looking at the People (cartoon tract). Maranatha Publications/Maranatha! Evangelical Assoc, 1972
[edit] References
- ^ Billy Graham Evangelistic Association 2006 Annual Report, Page 18
- ^ Samaritan's Purse 2006 Ministry Report, Page 38
- ^ Evangelical Christian Publishers Association 2000 Gold Medallion Book Awards Winners
