Through the leadership of Pastor Spero, Calvary Chapel has fathered a church in Ocean City, Maryland and over 120 works on the African Continent. In the late 1980s the name was expanded to reflect the expanding ministry and became Calvary Chapel Christian Center.
Calvary Chapel International Worship Center is the product of a merger of Calvary Chapel Christian Center and All Nations Worship Center on December 3rd, 1999. The Rev. Shawn Murphy founded All Nations Worship Center in July of 1998. The new congregation held meetings on Sunday afternoons in the sanctuary of Calvary Chapel. In March of 1999, Pastor Spero accepted a call to Florida to pioneer and direct a school for international ministers. Upon the acceptance of this call, he met with the Murphy's to discuss the merger of the two churches. After prayer and affirmation of God's will through the elders, Calvary Chapel International Worship Center was born.
Today CCIWC is affiliated with Covenant Ministries International and continues to develop relationships with pastors who are looking to disciple the city, town or village in which God has placed them.
Calvary Chapel in Severn, Maryland U.S.A.
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Dr. Spero has served as the founder and President of Calvary Chapel Ministries for over 25 years. In June 2005 he and his wife Mary went to Calvary Chapel International Worship Center to celebrate its 40th year anniversary. He met with some of the leaders under Calvary Chapel Ministries and discussed expanding what was already being done through Calvary Chapel Ministries. Part of what was decided was to change the name to Calvary Chapel International Evangelistic Association because the leaders who have been ordained are from several nations of the world.
Life Line Missions, although part of Calvary Chapel Ministries was a separate identity reaching out to the country of Nigeria. Rev. Charles Imler, Dr. Spero's father-in-law, was the founder and director of Life Line Mission until he passed on several years ago. Dr. Spero has been its director since then. Life Line Missions is now the missionary arm of Calvary Chapel International Evangelistic Association. Under its new umbrella, Life Line Missions will not only reach out to Nigeria but it will extend its borders to Cameroon, Ghana, the Ukraine, and India as well as the U.S.A.
Some of the key leaders of Calvary Chapel International Evangelistic Association/Life Line Missions:
• Nigeria has 40 credentialed ministers with Dr. John Ekpo as presiding overseer.
• In Cameroon where has over 50 credentialed workers and Bishop Christian Raymond is overseer.
• In Ghana Bishop Joseph Anokye represents CCIEA. One of the pastors who was credentialed adopted Dr. Spero as his spiritual father and went to the government to officially changed his last name to Spero. His legal name is now Samuel Williams Spero.
• In the country of Ukraine Pastor Rick Schwendinger is Life Line Missions' representative.
• In the country of India, Sudarshan Komanapalli is the CCIEA field representative. For more information on CCIEA, pleas contact Dr. Anthony Spero at
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