A Short
Biographical
Sketch
    The evangelist Christopher White is not typical among those in the field, having an
extensive background in the Ivy League.  He graduated cum laude from Yale, where he also sang
with and then directed Living Water, Yale’s Christian a cappella chorale.  He was a leader in
campus Bible studies at Yale for many more years, and worked with Bible studies at Princeton
for several years.  More recently, he has been a regular guest speaker at Yale and Columbia.  An
ordained minister, a singer and songwriter, he is the author of more than thirty sacred songs,
including the lyrical “How Glad the Morning” and “As the Streams of Living Water.”        

    Mr. White, the son of a Congregational minister, was reared in various small New
England towns.  He graduated as salutatorian of Masconomet High School in Boxford,
Massachusetts.  After his freshman year at Yale, he withdrew from the university, unable to afford
the costs, and worked in home improvement contracting in Yonkers for several years.  Later he
returned to Yale to complete his degree, graduating with honors in 1987 with a major in Middle
Eastern History.  His senior essay,
A Time to Favor Zion: the Jews of Jerusalem 1825-1850, was
labeled “brilliant” by the Chancellor of Tel Aviv University.

    Having earned his M.A. in Education in 1991 at Teachers College/Columbia University,
Chris has taught mathematics and history at public and private high schools, including
Scarsdale High School, the Greenwich Country Day School, and the Masters School in Dobbs
Ferry.  As of July 1, 2007, he retired from teaching mathematics at the Convent of the Sacred
Heart in Manhattan to go into full-time evangelism.  Honors received while in education include
being nominated in 2003 to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, being named Outstanding
Teacher in the Upper School at Sacred Heart in 2005, and an Outstanding Teacher award from
the University of Chicago in 2006.  He and his wife Pilar have four sons, ages 12 to 18.  

Center in Wheaton, Illinois.  His ministry in Colombia is sponsored by CEDECOL and the
churches there.