Dr. Paul A. Cedar - Biographical Sketch
Dr. Paul Cedar is the Chair of the Mission America
Coalition. Before joining the Mission America Coalition, he served as
the President of the Evangelical Free Church of America for two three-year
terms, as the Senior Pastor of Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California
for ten years, as Executive Pastor and Pastor of Evangelism at Hollywood
Presbyterian Church and as Pastor of several Evangelical Free Churches.
He was also a Crusade Associate with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
and a Crusade Director with evangelist Leighton Ford.
Deeply committed to the ministry of evangelism in the United States
and around the world, Paul serves as Chairman of the Lausanne Committee
for World Evangelization and as a member of the National Prayer Committee
and the Board of the U. S. Center for World Missions. In addition, he
is on the Advisory Boards of a number of strategic ministries.
Dr. Cedar is the author of eight books with the most current volume
entitled
A Life of Prayer. He has served as adjunct professor
or visiting professor at five theological seminaries in the United States
and has lectured at a number of colleges and theological seminaries
in other parts of the world.
Paul and his wife Jeannie live in California and have three children
and four grandchildren.
