A Vision For Life - About Calvary Chapel

Pastor Phil

PHIL METZGER is the director and pastor of Calvary Chapel Reaching Europe. In addition, he is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Budapest, Hungary. He oversees Calvary church plants throughout Eastern Europe, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Phil is originally from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa where he served in the youth ministry. He served as a missionary in Moscow, an assistant pastor at a new church plant in Esztergom, Hungary, and then planted and pastored two Calvary Chapels in Kaposvár and Sárbogárd, Hungary. He and his wife Joy has been on the mission field for 10 years. They have four beautiful children: Niki, Karina, Judah, and Hannah.

Pastor Paul

PAUL LANGE is the director of the Bible College. Paul's home church is Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. In 1991 he and his wife left California to serve in Baja, Hungary for five and half years before heading to Austria in the fall of 1997 to work with the Bible College. There he served for almost five years helping to teach people about the missionary life and calling. In 2002 Paul and his family moved with the Bible college to Vajta Hungary where they continue the discipleship ministry. Paul and his wife Jeanette and they have three children: Sierra, Sean and Jake.

Pastor Arpi

ARPAD HORVAT-KAVAI is the operational and financial overseer of the facility, so he is involved in several different aspects of the ministry at CCBCE. He teaches classes at CCBCE and at CCA - a school for missionary children. Arpad was a pastor of the CalvaryChapel in Pecs (Hungary) for a bit more than seven years and he has been teaching at CCBCE since 2002. Both Arpad and his wifeAndrea come from Serbia, and they both got saved at Calvary Chapel Subotica as teenagers. They have one daughter, Nina. read thelatest on the Horvat-Kavai family...

Pastor Caleb

CALEB BELLER and his wife Kim come from Orange County, Southern California. They have 3 little ones, Charis, Hope and Justice. Caleb has been teaching Martial Arts since 1996 and serving on staff as an assistant Pastor at Calvary Chapel Fullerton since 2000. Caleb was also working as a Chaplain for the La Habra Police Department until they arrived in Vajta.

Pastor Shaun

Shaun is the director of the AVFL program. Shaun and Megan studied, interned, served on staff, and were engaged at CCBCE. Shaun, originally from California, attended the AVFL program in the Summer of 2003. Megan, originally from Colorado, was a student at the Bible college, as well as the Missions Training Program. Married in 2007, both have a heart for missions and discipleship.

Ken Dinnen

Ken was originally born in Brockton Massachusetts, but grew up in South Florida. He taught two years at a public charter school before teaching at Calvary Christian Academy Fort Lauderdale, FL. Ken was involved in leadership of the singles' ministry and missions at CCFL. Ken has been a teacher here at CCA since August 2006.

Lisa Collins

Lisa grew up in Oscoda, Michigan and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She had her own advertising and marketing firm before serving as a school teacher at Calvary Christian Academy in Vajta, Hungary in 2003. In 2004, Lisa began assisting Pastor Phil Metzger, her ministry is to help mobilize students onto the mission field through training and providing practical short-and-long term opportunities. In addition, her responsibilities include being a support to churches and missionaries in Europe, and coordinating mission trips for American teams desiring to experience Eastern Europe.

A Vision For Life - About Calvary Chapel

Calvary Chapel is a non-denominational evangelical Christian church that began with 25 people in Costa Mesa, California in 1965 by Pastor Chuck Smith.

Calvary Chapel's pastor, Chuck Smith became a leading figure in what has become known as the "Jesus Movement" of the 1960s. As he reached out to the youth of the counter-culture - the hippies, drug users, and those rebelling against cold traditions, many accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thousands gave their lives to Christ.

From the first Calvary Chapel many men were raised up who went out to plant new Calvary Chapel churches. These in turn also raised up new pastors and church planters so that today there are over one thousand Calvary Chapels around the United States and the world.