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Charles "Chuck" Ward Smith (born June 25, 1927) is the founder of Calvary Chapel and is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Smith was born in Ventura, California to Charles and Maude Smith. His wife, Kay, directs Costa Mesa's women's ministry, and his son Jeff works at The Word for Today and CSN International. Smith's other three children also work in the ministry. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ...
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Calvary Chapels dove logo which represents the Holy Spirit. ...
Main article: Minister of religion A pastor is the head minister or priest of a Christian church. ...
Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa is a Christian church in Costa Mesa, California. ...
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Early career He graduated from Life Pacific College and was ordained as a pastor for the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. In the late 50's Smith was the campaign manager and worship director for healing evangelist Paul Cain.[citation needed] After struggling as a pastor and being frustrated by church growth and recruitment techniques, he left his denomination and eventually moved to a church called Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, California in December 1965. The church had begun with a small group of people in a mobile home park in 1962.[citation needed] Life Pacific College was originally founded in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California in 1923 as Echo Park Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute by Aimee Semple McPherson. ...
The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel is an evangelical Pentecostal Christian denomination. ...
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Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California. ...
Calvary Chapel In the late 60s and early 70s, Smith brought on staff pentecostal evangelist Lonnie Frisbee. He went out into community to reach the youth with the gospel during the early days of the Jesus Movement. The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ...
Evangelism is the proclaiming of the Christian Gospel. ...
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The Jesus movement was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within the Body of Christ. ...
The church in Santa Ana grew, and as of 2006, 35,000 people attend. Over 1,000 churches have branched out from his church. Some of these churches are led by those who Smith discipled including Greg Laurie, Jon Courson, Mike MacIntosh, Raul Ries, and Skip Heitzig. Greg Laurie Greg Laurie (born 10 December 1952) is the senior pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship, a Calvary Chapel, in Riverside, California. ...
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Mike MacIntosh (born 1944), senior pastor of Horizon Christian Fellowship, San Diego, California, is a Christian leader in the United States. ...
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