About Chris
Chris Spicer is a Christian leader with over fifty-year’s experience of working alongside churches and learning centres throughout Europe and North America. As a published author, public speaker and coach, Chris brings a wealth of practical understanding to both secular and spiritual learning environments. While his no-nonsense and yet entertaining teaching style, he has travelled widely encouraging others to pursue their purpose in life.
Having lived in Portland Oregon and served as a Teaching Pastor in Peoria, Illinois, Chris returned to the UK in 2010 to set up a communications company known as Spicer’s Ink. A founding member of www.thelions.org.uk Chris helped to develop a unique training programme for entrepreneurs in the field of commerce, church and charitable enterprise. In 2015 he launched Coffee Chats a series of animated films, as a different way to kick-starting a conversation about life, faith and spirituality.
With a childhood filled with Adventure Comics rather than English Classics it’s not surprising that Chris first became a published author at the age of 50. His first publication VIII Characteristics of Highly Effective Christians looked at the importance of mental attitudes. His second book was totally different. By printing and binding just seven copies of Trust God & Keep Your Powder Dry, Chris gifted his children with a memento of God’s amazing grace in his family over the last hundred years.
In 2010 Chris celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Father’s Day by releasing his third book, No Perfect Fathers Here. With his eldest son providing the illustrations and his youngest daughter creating the internal layout this publication was something of a family affair. In 2019 Chris fulfilled a lifelong dream by releasing his first children’s book, JJ & the Big Bend. The COVID-19 pandemic provided an ideal opportunity to write and publish three more books. The Reel Story, an auto-biographical publication based on Chris’s ten favorite movies; Making the Dummies Dance, a self-help book for preachers and preaching; and Life on the Hill, a journey of discovery based on the opening statements of the Sermon on the Mount. Now working on his eighth publication, Living Life in the Last Lane, Chris hopes to see this book in the shops by Spring 2025.
Besides writing, Chris loves carpentry, fishing and vintage vehicles. Living in a six-hundred-year-old thatched cottage in middle-England, Chris is married to Tina. They have four adult children and eight rock-star grandchildren.