Dr. Chauncey Crandall IV is an eleventh generation American, born and raised in Virginia just outside Washington D.C. Chauncey comes from seven generations of ministers, some of which helped birth religious freedom within the New World.
God revealed Himself early on in Chauncey’s life in a very powerful way. He was just six years old attending a gospel service being held in a local barn. The old biblical war cry hymn began to play, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and Chauncey remembers feeling the presence of God for the first time.
But for many years he ran from God, however; The Father lovingly brought Chauncey back to Him at the age of 19 in Togo, West Africa when he was financially abandoned on an anthropology trip with his college. Chauncey remembers being on his knees crying out to the Lord in a brothel-like hotel to save his soul. He recalls looking up to see a world map above the bar cabinets split in two. The New world was on the left and the Old World was on the right. Chauncey took this to be a sign from God, confirming that the old man needed to be split from the new man who was now in Christ Jesus. Chauncey was born again!
At the age of 27, while attending medical school, Chauncey found himself in the middle of the Communist Revolution on the island of Grenada in the British West Indies. It was at this time that the Lord stressed the importance of water baptism. In a small Caribbean cove, with the indigenous brothers and sisters in Christ, Chauncey was water baptized as Russian/Cuban gun ships patrolled the shoreline.
Chauncey went on to become an interventional and preventative cardiologist who currently practices in the Palm Beach area. After struggling whether or not to become a missionary, Chauncey recalls one day, during hospital rounds, receiving a direct call from God that his patients were the people group that God gave him to minister to and to get well. Dr. Crandall lives constrained to this challenge and prays with his patients for their healing and salvation in Christ alone.
He and his wife Deborah were married in 1978 and currently reside in Palm Beach, Florida. They have two sons, Christian Pierce and Chadwick Baxter.
Dr. Crandall runs after all that God has to offer and is not afraid to walk firmly in his faith. He walks in bold humility and his faith in God has led him to see countless miracles. He lectures and ministers on a national and international level. He is committed to his Savior, the power of the Holy Spirit, and his family.
