Chris Keene

Christopher Keene has been a part of the ministry of Sanctuary for over 41 years. He served on staff as an Elder and Associate Pastor in the mid ‘80s and ’90s at Sanctuary South Bay in Redondo Beach, CA. While there, he led teams for evangelism and outreach, oversaw drama ministries, taught classes and headed up the Art Reaching The Souls (A.R.T.S.) ministry. In 1994, he relocated to Nashville, TN with a missionary drama team, All The World’s A Stage, that toured and served as a training team from ’94-’98 for the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) – Nashville base. In recent years, he has worked on episodes of the podcasts: CREATE! and Some Wise Guys Talking and teaches online Intense Studies – Radically Active Discipleship (RAD) classes for Sanctuary. For the last 25 years, he has worked as a Designer and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts – training students to hone their technical craft while focusing on their Christian faith. He holds a BA in Technical Theatre from Cal State Long Beach and an MFA in Design & Production: Stage Properties from the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts. He is currently on faculty at Liberty University. He and his wife, Mondai, and their two daughters live in Lynchburg, Virginia.