Dr. Paul Cedar

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Dr. Paul A. Cedar
Chair and CEO of the Mission America Coalition
Dr. Paul Cedar is the Chair of the Mission America Coalition.  Before Chairing and serving as CEO of 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 and a director of a Youth for Christ Ministry.
 
Deeply committed to the ministry of evangelism in the United States and around the world, Paul served as Chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization where he currently serves as a Senior Advisor.   He is a member of the National Prayer Committee and on 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 “Compassionate Leadership” of which he co-authored with Dr. Ted Engstrom, President Emeritus of World Vision.  Paul 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.
 
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