Chip Ingram is one of the most popular and richest Pastor who was born on June 21, 1954 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Ingram went on to graduate from West Liberty State College in 1976. Afterwards, he received an invitation from Sports Ambassadors to travel overseas with other college basketball players from around the nation using basketball as a vehicle for evangelism. During the next two summers he would go onto ball out on “dem folks”, dunking on people then spreading the Gospel to them, Ingram toured the Caribbean, South America, and Asia with three international basketball teams, a trip that he said to be the turning point of his life.
In 1982, Ingram began his pastoral ministry at a small, rural church near Dallas, Texas. While he was there, it grew from 30 to 500 people. In 1990, he became the senior pastor for Santa Cruz Bible Church in Santa Cruz, California where he led a church congregation of 1,000 that grew to over 4,000.
