Greg Laurie Harvest Christian Fellowship

Greg is an American pastor and author who serves as senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship with campuses in California and Hawaii. He is also the featured speaker of the nationally syndicated radio programme *A New Beginning. *

Greg was born in Long Beach California on 10th December 1952. He was raised by a single mother who had 7 marriages in vastly different locations such as New Jersey and Hawaii. He was not raised in a Christian or church environment.

His first job was working as a newspaper delivery man for the Daily Post in Los Angeles.

In 1970, aged 17, he became a devout Christian under the evangelist Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Habor High School.

Aged 19 Greg was given the opportunity to lead a Bible study of 30 people by pastor Chuck Smith, at Calvary Chapel.

Harvest Christian Fellowship was formed from this group.
In 2013 it celebrated its 40th anniversary and has become one of the largest churches in the USA (15,000). It has another dedicated campus in Irvine and 4 satellite campuses - Woodcrest, Eastvale, South Corona and Lahaina, Hawaii). Harvest recently merged with Kumulani Chapel in Maui, Hawaii and that churchis now called Harvest Kumulani. In 2017 it became affiliated to the Southern baptist Convention.

In 1990 Greg began holding large scale public evangelistic events called Harvest Crusades. Since that time 7.9 million people have participated in person or online around the USA and 400, 000 have made public professions of faith. The crusades have been held in a number of American cities plus Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

In 2012 Harvest Crusades launched Harvest America - a nationwide simulcast from one location to 2,400 venues.

Greg is the featured speaker on A New Beginning a 30 minute daily radio programme, broadcast to 800 radio outlets, featuring relevant biblical teaching. Greg Laurie,tv is a weekly television programme on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) . He is a regular speaker on a number Television channels.

In 2013 he was the Honorary chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force.
Greg serves on the board pf directors for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He is chaplain for the Newport Beach Police Department.

In 2017 he organized a movement called The Year of Good News. After all the fake/depressing news he wanted to - call upon Christians in America to make 2017 The Year of Good News.

He has found time to author 70 books including his autobiography Lost Boy, which was turned into a documentary… He also wrote the notes for the Start! Bible in the New King James Version.

His tremendous Christian work has been recognized. He holds honorary degrees from both Biola and Azusa Pacific Universities.

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About Greg Laurie
Christian Podcast Network
What Harvest America
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