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Therefore, using many of his experiences as a timeline – his faith, his faults and his rekindled fire – allows a detailed rendering for this “orderly account.” (Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1) Please set aside a time when you have at least an hour to read this whole document to perhaps discover for the first time what happened to what for many of us was “our family” and what God now wants us to do.


Kip McKean at Smokey Mountain, outside of Manila in 1989.


Thomas Wayne McKean II (May 31, 1954 – present) was named after his ancestor Thomas McKean, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. (His mother nicknamed him “Kip.”) In 2003, Kip became the evangelist for the Portland International Church of Christ. In October 2006, after a valiant three-year effort to bring reform to the crumbling International Churches of Christ, the Holy Spirit used Kip, soon joined by other valiant disciples on every continent, to initiate the new Portland / SoldOut Discipling Movement. In May 2007, Kip and Elena McKean along with 40 other disciples from Portland planted the City of Angels International Christian Church, where he now serves as the “World Missions Evangelist” for this new movement of churches.