Rev. Paul S. Moore has spent more than 40 years in Christian compassionate ministry around the world.
Raised in a parsonage by Christian parents, Rev. Moore began his ministry as the bass singer in a southern-style gospel quartet called "Key Notes" in the early 1960s.
In 1969, Rev. Moore founded his first church, the Maranatha Christian Center in New Milford, N.J. This church gave birth to the east coast "Jesus Movement." Rev. Moore saw more than 4,000 teens and parents make professions of faith, confirmed by public baptism. Twelve new churches were formed from the overflow of new converts.
Four years later, Rev. Moore founded the Lamb's Center, Manhattan Church of the Nazarene, in New York's Times Square theater district. This mission, located in the legendary Lamb's Club, became a recognized model for contemporary urban ministry for the United States. His best seller, Shepherd of Times Square, documents Rev. Moore's unique outreach techniques to those in the theatrical arts, media and business while leading a growing young adult congregation that also provided social services to the needy.
Here's Life Inner City, the urban ministry outreach of Campus Crusade for Christ under Dr. Bill Bright, was Moore's next endeavor. Established in 1983, it now has expanded to 50 of
the largest population centers in the U.S. Rev. Moore expanded his outreach with CitiHope Radio Ministry in 1985 as the broadcast arm of Here's Life. He was heard daily via satellite on up to 110 stations around the United States.
Moore was inspired to found CitiHope International (CHI), a Christian humanitarian relief, education and development foundation following a mission trip to Belarus and the Chernobyl Nuclear region. There Rev. Moore encountered children dying from exposure to radioactive poison, and he knew that an organization was needed to fill the gap in providing tangible access to medical and nutritional aid for persons in need world-wide.
To date, more than $600 million in assistance has been delivered to 21 countries, targeting more than 10 million beneficiaries. Malawi, Africa, is the latest addition to CHI's mission outreaches beginning in 2003, and CitiHope is pleased to partner there with the Osborne Baptist Church and HopeGivers.
With his wife Tamara, who serves as CitiHope's Central Asia Regional Director, he resides in Andes, N.Y. and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. He has two daughters, a son, two stepsons and 10 grandchildren.