Dr. David Ireland is founder and lead pastor of Christ Church, a 10,000-member congregation in North Jersey with over 70 nationalities. A former diversity consultant for the National Basketball Association, Deloitte, and Wycliffe Bible Translators, he has led chapel services for the NY Giants, Jets, and at the U.S. Pentagon. His ministry spans over 75 nations, training leaders worldwide, from Australia’s outback to Kenya’s Rift Valley, Harvard, Indonesia’s mountains, and even behind the post-communist walls of Slovakia.

He is a well-respected columnist contributing to such media outlets like Fox News and Huffington Post. He has authored of over 30 books, including Raising a Child Who Prays and The Kneeling Warrior. Dr. Ireland is working to launch The CARE Center, an integrative suite of services within a 123,000-square foot facility at his Rockaway, NJ Campus. This socially innovative endeavor includes a legal clinic, food pantry, clothing program, mental health services, and 20 other social justice services to empower the marginalized and under-resourced.

Rev. Ireland holds a graduate degree in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, a master’s in theology from Alliance Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Regent University, and completed post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he holds a postgraduate degree in social innovation from the University of Cambridge. Recently appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Faith-Based Initiatives, he and his wife, Dr. Marlinda Ireland, have been married since 1984, with two adult daughters and a son-in-law.