Pastor Chase was born and raised in San Diego, California where he spent much of his youth playing basketball and hanging out in the sun. He graduated from Concordia University, Irvine with a degree in Business Administration in 2006 and from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis with a Masters of Divinity in 2010. He’s served the Lord in both large and small churches, campus ministry at ASU, and in both preschool and elementary school ministries.

His passion is to see churches not only grow and reach unchurched people, but also to ensure they are firmly planted and are not easily shaken. He’s married to his wife Karla, whom he says “is one of the most wonderful women of God he’s ever met.” They have three children, Grant, Emma and Nathan.