A product of the public school system, he attended McKinley Elementary School in Santa Monica, Foshay Junior High, Manual Arts and Dorsey High Schools in Los Angeles, and received his AA Degree from Los Angeles City College.

Dr. Price received an honorary diploma from the Rhema Bible Training Center in 1976 and an honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degree from Oral Roberts University in 1982; both institutions are based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

On September 6, 2000, Dr. Price was the first Black Pastor to speak at Town Hall Los Angeles. In 1998, he was the recipient of two prestigious awards. Dr. Price received The Horatio Alger Award, presented by an Alexandria, Virginia based association honoring those who exemplify inspirational success. He also received the Kelly Miller Smith Interfaith Award, presented by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, honoring clergy who have made the most significant contribution through religious expression affecting the nation and world.

Dr. Price met the former Betty Ruth Scott while attending Dorsey High School. They were married in March 1953 and have four children -- Angela Marie Evans, Cheryl Ann Crabbe, Stephanie Pauline Buchanan, and Frederick Kenneth Price.

All of the Price children and his sons-in-law (A. Michael Evans, Jr., Allen L. Crabbe, Jr., and Danon Buchanan) work in the Ministry along with Dr. Price. Drs. Fred and Betty Price also have five grandchildren: Alan Michael and Adrian Marie Evans; Nicole Denise and Allen L. Crabbe, III; and Tyler Stephen Buchanan.

The marriage of Fred and Betty Price has spanned 47 years. The fact that all but one of those years was spent in the ministry is a story within itself.

Dr. Price was not a religious man. He was not reared in the church. In fact, his parents were Jehovah's Witnesses who discontinued practicing their faith when Dr. Price was very young. On the other hand, Dr. Betty was a devout Baptist, whose only desire was to please God. In order, to win her hand and impress her family, Dr. Price became a regular churchgoer during their courtship. Once they were married, however, he spent Sundays at the baseball diamond. Betty, as she puts it, "knew better" and remained steadfast in her faith, attending church every Sunday.

Within months after they married, a group of Los Angeles area churches sponsored a week of old-fashioned tent revivals. Dr. Price became jealous when he noticed that Betty went to each service. To find out why she went, he decided to go himself.

At that service, Frederick K. C. Price was born-again. Soon thereafter, he and Betty joined a local Baptist congregation. In that church, Dr. Price says he received the "call" to minister. He explains, "I heard an audible voice saying, 'You are going to preach my Gospel.' It was like a bomb going off. I believe it was the voice of Jesus Christ, but at that time, I did not know what it was."

During the next 17 years, Dr. Price became increasingly dissatisfied with his progress, both personally as a Christian and in learning about the things of God in general. This led to his pastoring in four denominations. He was an assistant pastor in the Baptist church from 1955 to 1957, then pastored an AME (African Methodist Episcopal) church in Val Verde, CA from 1957 to 1959. He went from there to the Presbyterian Church, then to the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1965.

During these years of dissatisfaction, Dr. Price searched the Scriptures for the answer. In his earnest desire to be all that God's Word said he should be he discovered that the power of the Holy Spirit was missing from his life. In his book, "The Holy Spirit -- The Missing Ingredient," Dr. Price writes of this time. Dr. Price says, "Every time I read the words of Jesus in John 14:12, '...the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to My Father,' it left me longing to experience these works. I was not witnessing these 'greater works' in my own ministry, nor in the ministry of others that I knew, with two exceptions -- Kathryn Kuhlman and Oral Roberts." To add to his mounting frustration, in 1962, Dr. Price's eight-year-old son, Frederick III, was struck and killed by a car while he was coming home from school. This was the most disastrous of many crises in the Price family.

In her book, "Standing By God's Man," Dr.Betty Price remembers, "Fred and I tried to console each other as best we could, and leaned a lot on one another during this time of hurt. My husband particularly found it hard to get over this tragedy, but he knew -- and continued to say -- that it was not God Who had taken our son from us. Looking back now, we can see how the devil was trying to destroy us as a family."

While Dr. Price was pastoring for the Christian and Missionary Alliance at West Washington Community Church, he read Kathryn Kuhlman's book, "God Can Do It Again." "It stirred my soul," he says. "This was the missing dimension -- the demonstration of the power of the Spirit of God," or what the Bible terms "the gifts of the Spirit."

On February 28, 1970, he received the gift of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of "speaking with other tongues" -- also known as "glossolalia." That is the event that Dr. Price considers the jumping-off point in his ministry.

Dr. Price was also influenced by several books and tapes by Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. Price adds, "It was during this time that Betty and I began to take the first steps to walk by faith, which has brought us to where we are today."

In 1973 Dr. Price and 300 parishioners moved from West Washington to establish Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) in Inglewood, CA. In 1984 CCC outgrew its Inglewood facility and purchased the former Pepperdine University Los Angeles campus. CCC is now the home of the FaithDome, with over 10,000 seats, its one of the largest church sanctuaries in the United States. Construction on the FaithDome began in 1986, finished in 1989, and the Dome was dedicated on January 21, 1990. Currently, the church membership totals over 22,000.

In addition, in 1990, Dr. Price founded the Fellowship of Inner City Word of Faith Ministries (FICWFM). Members of FICWFM include churches from all over the United States and various countries. The Fellowship, which meets regionally throughout the year and hosts an annual convention, is not a denomination. Their mission is to provide fellowship, leadership, guidance and a spiritual covering for those desiring a standard of excellence in ministry. They share methods and experiences commonly faced by ministries in the inner cities. Their focus is how to apply the 'Word of Faith' to solve their challenges.

Today, Crenshaw Christian Center has an established preschool, elementary, middle, and high school and correspondence school. People all over the world know of Dr. Price through the "Ever Increasing Faith" TV, radio and tape ministry. The Ever Increasing Faith Ministries program reaches more than 15 million households each week and airs in 15 of the 20 largest markets throughout the United States, according to recent Nielson ratings.

Dr. Price is the author of some 50 books on faith, healing, prosperity, and the Holy Spirit. "How Faith Works" is a classic book on the operation of faith and its life-changing principles. He has sold over 2.1 million books since 1976.
His most recent book projects include, "Race, Religion & Racism, Volume 1: A Bold Encounter with Racism in The Church" and "Race, Religion & Racism, Volume 2: Perverting the Gospel to Subjugate a People."

Crenshaw Christian Center was founded by Dr. Frederick K. C. Price in 1973 with some 300 members. Membership currently numbers over 18,000.

Eight years before establishing CCC, Dr. Price had pastored a small church in Los Angeles called West Washington Community Church under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He had grown dissatisfied with his personal spiritual development because of a lack of positive results in his life and ministry, so he searched for a more fruitful Christian experience. This led to his being baptized with the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4 on February 28, 1970. Shortly after this experience, Dr. Price came into contact with the Bible-teaching ministry of Kenneth E. Hagin. He grew into the reality of God's Word, then began teaching the Bible-deliverance message.

As Dr. Price and his congregation grew in the operation of faith and continually acted upon the Word, signs followed. One of those signs was a steady growth in church membership. Eventually, the building on Washington Boulevard (which only seated 158 persons comfortably) became too small for the growing congregation, and Dr. Price followed through with a plan the Lord had shared with him about establishing a new church, independent of denominational ties. There, the Holy Spirit could operate as He chose, according to 1 Corinthians 12 and 14, and the Word of God could be taught to His people uncompromisingly.

The ideal facilities were found at 9550 Crenshaw Boulevard in the city of Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. On that site, Crenshaw Christian Center was founded, and on November 26, 1973, the 300-member assembly held its first service there.

Pastor Price continued his ministry of the Word and applied fully the principles of faith. In 1977, the 1,400-seat church was forced to go to two services, and later three, to accommodate the people desiring to receive the Word and experience the move of the Holy Spirit. Overflow rooms with closed-circuit television were used, and still, the lines kept growing.

The multitudes at the door were not the only sign of increase. After being on radio several times a week for a number of years, in April 1978, Ever Increasing Faith, the missionary outreach arm of Crenshaw Christian Center, began televising the faith message locally. Later, its telecasts expanded to five major U.S. cities in an effort to reach Black America. Just as Paul, an apostle to the Gentiles, never lost sight of his Jewish brethren, Dr. Price has desired to reach his Black brethren with the Word of Faith and prosperity that is in Christ Jesus, and has endeavored to do so through the media of television and radio.

Eventually, with an average of 5,500 persons participating in three services each Sunday, and with its expanding television, radio, book and tape ministries, the church again needed larger facilities. In 1981, it purchased the 32-acre former campus of Pepperdine University, primarily for the construction of a 10,000-seat sanctuary. In 1984, Crenshaw Christian Center moved to this location. Groundbreaking for the new sanctuary took place in 1986 and the building was completed in the fall of 1989.

The sanctuary, the FaithDome, is a geodesic dome (one of the largest in the world) used for Sunday services, special meetings, conventions, and crusades. The church holds other activities, including midweek Bible studies, in other facilities on the grounds. The Crenshaw Christian Center Ministry Training Institute, established in 1985, which includes a Correspondence School program that was founded in 1994, is also located on the grounds.

In 1990, Dr. Price founded the Fellowship of Inner-City Word of Faith Ministries (FICWFM) to foster and spread the faith message among independent ministries located in the urban, metropolitan areas of the United States. It fulfills another part of Dr. Price's vision - namely, to help inner-city ministries overcome the challenges they encounter in their congregations and in their day-to-day walk.

The ministry employs more than 350 people within 14 distinct divisions, including a preschool and elementary, middle and high schools. Sixteen helps ministry auxiliaries and organizations, with approximately 2,500 volunteer workers, assist Dr. Price and his staff of nine ministers in serving the congregation, visitors and an outreach jail ministry.