Chris is founder and pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, a multi-ethnic ministry in urban Midtown. Over the past 12 years God has created a diverse racial and socioeconomic community in St. Paul's, centered on a vision of the glory of Christ becoming the glory of Atlanta.

He attended Wheaton College and Covenant Theological Seminary, pastoring an inner-city church in Pittsburgh for 5 years before being called by Perimeter Church to plant a scratch plant in Midtown. He and his wife Marijane have two sons, Alex and Iain.