About the UEC – Fresh Springs Association

The UEC – Fresh Springs Association is an Associated Ministry of the United Evangelical Churches (P.O. Box 1000, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045-1000), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1964. All donations to the UEC – Fresh Springs Association are fully tax deductible to the extent that no goods or services were received in exchange for contributions other than intangible religious benefits.

The core purpose of this ministry is evangelism and teaching in the greater New York City metropolitan region, on university campuses, in Latin America, Europe, and southern Asia. We are about the work of proclaiming the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ, promoting unity and cooperation among believers for the advancement of God’s Kingdom, and for the building of His eternal Church. The Bible contains the eternal, unchanging revelation of the mind of our Lord, and remains today the most powerful and effective tool for the transformation of lives, families, and communities. As Psalm 87:7 proclaims, “All my fresh springs are in you.” (NKJV, expanded) The Word of God brings refreshing, transformation, and genuine life to all those who receive and live out Jesus’ message of forgiveness and grace. The proclamation of His redeeming power is our chief work.
 

About Chris White 

Mr. White is an ordained evangelist and teacher, and a member of the Global Network of Evangelists (GNE) of the Palau Association. He has been involved in university campus ministry for more than fifty years, chiefly in the United States. He has been preaching in recent years to tens of thousands of people in towns and cities in Pakistan as well as ministering to pastoral gatherings in India. His thirty-six ministry trips to Colombia were sponsored by CEDECOL (Consortium of Evangelical Churches of Colombia) and by many churches there. His work in Cuba, the Czech Republic, and Ecuador has also been sponsored by local churches in each of those countries.  His latest full-length book, The Nature and Work of the Holy Spirit, published by Thomas E. Lowe, Ltd. in New York City in 2023, received high praise from its reviewers. He has also written several other books, including Discipleship and the Body of Christ (formerly called Come, Follow Me), also published by Thomas E. Lowe, Ltd. The book was been released in the Spanish-speaking world as well under the title, Ven y Sígueme: Como Ser Discípulos y Miembros del Cuerpo de Cristo, published by CLC (Centro de Literatura Cristiana). Most of his books are currently listed on his Amazon Author's Page.

Chris White preaching in the Coliseo de la Luna in Chía, Colombia

Missions and Ministry Experience

Thereafter, he began to work more directly in evangelism, holding a series of campaigns at Columbia and Yale, in churches in New York and Connecticut, and as a member of the ministry team at Manhattan Grace Tabernacle in New York.  He also spoke several times at the Lambs Theatre in Times Square, in open-air Gospel street outreaches on 114th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in Colombian Independence Day celebrations in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, on Wall Street, in Columbus Circle, as well as other places.  He was the main speaker at the Arise New York evangelistic concerts at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park and at the Jones Beach Bandshell which were held through the end of 2019.  He speaks regularly on college campuses in the northeastern United States, and especially in the greater New York City area. For several years, he helped organize and run Campus Renewal Ministries (CRM)’s New York metro area One Cry university prayer and worship gatherings.

For years, Mr. White has been a guest speaker at meetings of the Yale Students for Christ , including the student/alumni retreats in May 2014 and again in October 2023. For more than a decade, he has been working with Christian Union , a Christian ministry with chapters on all eight Ivy League campuses as well as at Stanford University. He has been a guest speaker on the campuses, at student retreats (especially for Yale undergraduates), for the CU National Conference in Maryland (2018), for Christian Union NYC (2022), as well as at the CU Proclaim Conferences at Cornell (2024) and then Princeton (2025).

In early 2004, Roosevelt Muriel, the President of CEDECOL–the umbrella organization of the evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic churches of Colombia–visited Chris and Pilar White in their home in New York. He invited Mr. White to begin work as an evangelist in Colombia with ministry trips twice a year. In March 2006, he spoke at the First Colombian National Congress of Evangelists in Bogotá on the theme The Passion of the Evangelist. Mr. White has done evangelistic campaigns with churches in Bogotá, Chia, Cali, Cartagena, Villavicencio, Bucaramanga, Santa Marta, Ipiales, Tunja, Ibagué, Palmira, Sogamoso, San Andres Isla, and in many other cities and towns in Colombia. He has been on the radio and television in several cities, including national broadcasts, and held his first evangelistic campaign in northern Ecuador in May 2010. He has also done open-air outreaches with young people in plazas and parks in many places around the country, and has spoken at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá as well as at various schools.

Beginning in 2017, Mr. White preached in churches in various parts of Cuba with many coming to Christ. Starting in 2020, he was invited to preach in southern Asia via internet in outreaches sponsored by local churches, ministers, and businessman. He has since done ministry in person on the ground there as well, with tens of thousands coming to faith in Christ. In 2021, he and his wife ministered in churches and a school in the Czech Republic.

A Short Biographical Sketch of Chris White

Mr. White, the son of a Congregational minister, was reared in various small New England towns. He graduated as salutatorian of Masconomet Regional High School in Boxford, Massachusetts and entered Yale University in the fall of 1971. After completing three semesters there, he withdrew from the university, unable to afford the costs, and worked in home improvement contracting in Yonkers, New York for several years. Therafter, he was granted a full scholarship to return to Yale in the spring semester of 1985 and completed his degree, graduating with honors in 1987 with a major in History focusing on the Middle East. 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 after twelve years of teaching at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan in order to go into full-time evangelism. Honors received while in education include being nominated twice to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, being named Outstanding Teacher in the Upper School at Sacred Heart in 2005, and being given an Outstanding Teacher award from the University of Chicago in 2006. An ordained minister, a singer and songwriter, he is the author of more than thirty sacred songs. His first original music CD, How Glad the Morning, was released in April 2020 on CDBaby.com. His second music CD, Grace to Live 1984, was released in June 2023. He and his wife Pilar have four sons who are also serving the Lord.