Chris Brown

Chris Brown has served as a Senior Pastor and Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church since 2004. Prior to that, he developed a nationally recognized student ministry at Azusa Pacific College, where he served as the Campus Pastor. His mid-week Bible study known as "911" started with 80 and grew to over 1,500 students.

A gifted story teller and Bible Teacher, Chris is in great demand as a conference and chapel speaker, forcing him to turn down many more opportunities than his schedule will allow him to accept. His humor and motivational style have helped North Coast Church continue to grow, not only larger, but also younger during his tenure. He shares the weekend pulpit with Larry Osborne - each teaching roughly half the time.

North Coast Church has been recognized as one of the ten most influential churches in America as well as one of the most innovative. Pioneers in the use of Video Worship Venues, North Coast launched the first ever Video Venue in 1998, starting what is now known in ministry circles as the "Multi-Site Movement." Each weekend, North Coast offers over 25 different worship options on multiple campuses - each targeted at a specific demographic or geographic audience.

North Coast Church's Sermon-Based Small Groups take the weekend sermon and dig deeper into its application with a participation rate of 80% of the weekend adult attendance. It's a model that has spread across the nation as churches discover its power to both disciple and slam the back door shut.

The church also has an extensive community outreach, averaging nearly two service projects a day throughout the year. In 2007, they closed the doors of the church two weeks after Easter for the largest weekend of service ever held by a single church. During a 48 hour span, 5,442 members from North Coast Church fanned across the community to complete 96 projects on 56 sites valued at over $1,000,000 in finished work.

Chris is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University. He lives in Oceanside with his wife Amy and their three children.