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Jack Hibbs, Senior Pastor & founder of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, alongside the Real Life network. A key figure in the teaching of the bible, end times prophesy & along with Amir Tsarfati , leads the popular Happening Now program.
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Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013) was an American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to "more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas", [1] some of which are among the largest churches in the United States.
At the beginning of the Jesus movement and into the 1970s, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa was the home church of two pioneering Jesus music groups, Children of the Day and Love Song. Both had their early albums released on the Chuck Smith-created music label, Maranatha! Music. As of 2009, there are more than 1500 Calvary Chapel congregations worldwide.
In 1973, at the age of 20, under the mentorship of Calvary Chapel pastor Chuck Smith, Laurie was given the opportunity to lead a Bible study of 30 people in Riverside, California. [4] The group quickly grew in size, and that same year, Laurie founded the Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside , where he still serves as senior pastor.
The Vineyard has its origins in the founding of a Calvary Chapel church by Kenn Gulliksen and his wife Joanie, members of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, in 1974, in Los Angeles in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In early 1975, thirteen groups met at the Beverly Hills Women's club.
Harvest Christian Fellowship was founded in 1973 by Greg Laurie, who has been the senior pastor since that time. [1]In 2009, it opened a new building, with a 5,000-seat auditorium, a gymnasium, and a High School.
The House of Miracles was a series of Christian communal houses established during the early Jesus Movement under the auspices of Pastor Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California.