December 1-3, 2010
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Charles Price, Pastor The Peoples Church Toronto, Canada |
Charles Price has been the Senior Pastor of The Peoples Church in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada since September 2001, with a weekly
congregation of 3500 people. He has a weekly hour-long television
programme, Living Truth, which is broadcast
coast to coast in Canada each week, as well as in the United Kingdom,
Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Korea and Japan.
Charles Price came to Christ through a Billy Graham film
at the age of twelve in Hereford, England. On leaving school he farmed
for two years in Zimbabwe before returning to England to attend
Capernwray Bible School for one year. He then spent three years at
the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, Scotland. He was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Tyndale University in Toronto in
2004.
In 1975, Charles became a field representative of the
Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers, based at Capernwray
Hall, Lancashire, England. This responsibility involved an itinerant
ministry of evangelism and Bible teaching for approximately half of the
year, the rest of the time being spent at Capernwray Hall. Charles
taught in the year-long bible school, and for fifteen years led the
summer conference program from June to September each year.
In September 1993, Charles was appointed Principal of
Capernwray Bible School while continuing in a wide international
conference, convention and evangelistic ministry.
He has preached in over 75 countries on 5 continents
around the World and is the author of 7 books, some of which have been
translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
Hindi, Malayalam, Farsi, Korean and Latvian.
Charles has been married to Hilary since 1980. They have
three children: Hannah, Laura and Matthew.