Ed Young

Ed Young is the founding senior pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas —which he and his wife Lisa started in 1990 and which has grown into one of the largest churches in America, meeting each week across its campuses and online. A New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books on marriage, parenting, and leadership, he also founded C3 Global and the Creative Church Conference — equipping pastors worldwide and supporting relief efforts that have provided more than 11 million meals. Ed is the son of Ed Young Sr., longtime pastor of Second Baptist Church in Houston; the two lead separate, independent churches. Ed and Lisa have been married more than 40 years and have four children, one who is in heaven. Fellowship Church is known for creatively and boldly communicating the Bible and equipping people for the challenges of everyday life.
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Through his leadership as founding and Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church, the church has been consistently ranked as one of the most attended churches in North America over the past decade. Since 1990, Fellowship has grown from 30 families to multiple campuses in Dallas/Fort Worth (TX) and an online campus as well.

With a passion to equip and train leaders in the church, Ed began C3 Global, CreativePastors.com and the Creative Church Conference (C3) in order to provide resources to thousands of pastors and leaders around the world.

Ed has also had the opportunity to publish several books on the topics of leadership, Christian living, marriage and parenting. Ed is a New York Times best-selling author and his books include: Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse. His other books include: The Marriage Mirror; The Creative Leader; and Outrageous, Contagious Joy.

Ed’s latest book, The Creative Marriage, was released in 2022.