Greg Laurie

About

Greg Laurie (born December 10, 1952) is an American evangelical pastor, evangelist, and Christian author, who as of July 2026 had continued to lead his congregation and serve as a crusade leader, in the role of senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, Riverside, California. He also is the founder of Harvest Crusades. Laurie is also the subject of the 2023 film Jesus Revolution, which tells the story of how he converted to Christianity and got his start in ministry in the midst of the Jesus movement.

Greg Laurie was born in 1952, in Long Beach, California. He was raised by a single mother who was married seven times in total. He worked as a newspaper boy for the Daily Pilot in Orange County, California. Laurie was not raised in the Christian faith or a church environment; in 1970, when Laurie was 17 years old (while attending Newport Harbor High School), he became a Christian as a result of the ministry of evangelist Lonnie Frisbee, in a period when the Jesus Movement was exploding in Southern California.

In 1973, Laurie began a home Bible study in Riverside, California, an opportunity given to him…