Discovery Impact Details

Lead Pastor

Chris Kohlbry is the lead pastor of Discovery Church. In addition to his teaching pastoral duties, he is actively involved in training and guiding Kingdom-minded leaders for the marketplace. He is the founder of Chaplains to Companies, a ministry which trains, supervises and places a pastoral presence in San Diego area businesses. He is also the founder and a contributing teacher to Marketplace University, a joint project sponsored by Discovery Church and Fuller Theological Seminary.

Chris and his wife, Pam, have been married for 30 years. Pam is a professor of nursing at California State University, San Marcos. They have two adult sons: one who lives and works in the Middle East, the other who is a university student in Los Angeles.

Chris received a bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern California (‘77), a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary (‘82), and a Doctorate in Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary (‘97).

One of Chris’ passions in ministry is the training and encouragement of developing world pastors, something he is actively doing in Indonesia, Baja and central Mexico and in Malawi, Africa. To help facilitate this work, he has recently joined the adjunct faculty of Harvest Bible University, Los Angeles.

On his day off, he loves to kayak-fish off the shores of La Jolla.