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Early Life And Family


Both of Kip’s parents – Tom & Kim – celebrate their 80th Birthdays in the summer of 2008!
“Kip” McKean was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 31, 1954. Like many young men of the 1960’s, he was inspired by those who refused to compromise and were willing to sacrifice everything for a worthy cause. This temperament is also deep in the McKean family heritage, as they are called higher by the courage of one of their ancestors, Thomas McKean. As with all of “the Signers,” death threats were common. Interestingly, Thomas McKean not only signed the Declaration of Independence for Delaware, but also was “the President” of the Congress of Confederation – the highest office in the new United States of America – when news arrived from General Washington that the British had surrendered.

Kip’s father, serving as an admiral in the U.S. Navy, became a strong influence and an early role model for leadership and excellence. His mother, an artist, nurtured in him warmth in relationships and a character of resilience. Between the ages of seven and 16, every summer Kip alongside his beloved younger brother Randy and dear younger sister Dana spent one month with each set of grandparents – “Grampy and Grammy” and “Grandpa and Grandma.” Those days with his grandparents in Michigan and Indiana respectively heightened his sense of adventure and deepened his love and appreciation of family.

During his high school years – in Virginia Beach, Virginia; Winter Park, Florida; and Libertyville, Illinois – Kip was active in athletics, was selected to be a member of the National Honor Society, and also obtained the rank of Eagle in the Boy Scouts. During these formative years, Kip’s heroes became John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In time, Kip’s greatest hero became Jesus.

Concerning “the evangelization of the nations in this generation,” some have asked, “What is going to be different this ‘second time’ around?” This presupposes the question, “Can it be different this second time?” The answer in the Scriptures is a resounding yes! The first time the Israelites approached the Promised Land, their lack of faith led them to the dreadful desire to choose another leader and to return to their lives of slavery in Egypt. This unbelief resulted only in their death in the desert. The second time the Spirit led them to the border of the Promised Land, the Israelites – having learned to rely on God in their wanderings in the desert – now succeeded to make God’s dream and promise a reality. This same learning from the past prayerfully will be true for God’s new SoldOut Movement. As Kip preached at the 2010 Jubilee on the theme of The Promised Land On The Second Try, “Second is best because God rewards the quest.”

The Biography of Kip McKean - Part 1 B

Of note in 1979, Kip and Elena were invited to lead the Lexington Church of Christ (later renamed the Boston Church of Christ). From these “30 would-be-disciples,” the Spirit ignited a movement of churches known as the Boston Movement and in 1994 renamed the International Churches of Christ. From a historical perspective, no other preacher in the past century has been directly responsible for the planting of so many congregations around the world. Kip’s tenacious embrace of Jesus’ radical dream “to evangelize the nations in a generation,” his bold theological reforms, his personal warmth coupled with his charismatic and uncompromising Bible preaching, allowed the Spirit to take the gospel from one small dying church in Boston to become almost 400 churches in 171 of the 196 nations of the world by the year 2000! Then as this noble effort was being tragically decimated in 2002 and 2003, God sent Kip on a rocky path of suffering and redemption. For almost two years, he wandered in a lonely, spiritual wilderness, which greatly humbled him. Yet, those dark days ultimately strengthened Kip’s resolve to fulfill the dream. Therefore in late 2011, it is so amazing that in a little more than five years, God’s new SoldOut Movement - has 39 congregations in 20 nations… and counting!

Me siento muy bien contigo, me gustas mucho, quisiera que estuvieras más tiempo acá conmigo.

Quisiera que pudiéramos pasar más tiempo juntos, haciendo diferentes actividades.

MI NENE:
Estos 12 meses junto a ti han sido los mejores de toda mi vida, eres ese rayito de luz que me ilumina cada día.... eres mi inspiración, mi motivación, ese ángel con el que siempre soñé, el príncipe de mi realidad!
Aunque no estés junto a mí en cuerpo, se que lo estás en alma. Por eso y muchas cosas más.

TE AMO COSITO!!!

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.