Craig C. Christensen

Craig Cloward Christensen (born March 18, 1956) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2002.

Biography

Christensen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Sheron Glen Christensen and Colleen Cloward. The family moved to Concord, California when Christensen was 11 years old. He was an All-American football player in high school and went on to play center for Brigham Young University (BYU) — playing both before and after his two-year service in the Chile Santiago South Mission of the LDS Church.

Christensen was engaged to Debora Bliss Jones three weeks after returning from his mission in 1977, and the couple was married in the Salt Lake Temple three months later.^[1]

After graduating with a degree in accounting from BYU in 1979, Christensen worked for an accounting firm in California for two years and then attended the University of Washington for his MBA. Christensen subsequently moved his family back to Utah, where he bought his first company in 1990. He worked as a real estate developer and franchised automobile dealer. He also taught business and religion classes at BYU.^[2]

In the LDS Church, Christensen has served as a high councilor, bishop, temple ordinance worker, counselor in a Missionary Training Center branch presidency, and an area seventy. He served as president of the Mexico Mexico City East Mission from 1995 to 1998. He was called as a general authority on October 5, 2002 as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy and was subsequently moved to the First Quorum of the Seventy during the April 2008 general conference of the church.^[1]

Notes

References

• “Elder Craig C. Christensen Of the Seventy,” Liahona, Nov. 2002, p. 122

External links

• "General Authorities: Elder Craig C. Christensen", lds.org