Praise Chapel is a Family of Fellowships of Churches and Ministries International. Linked together through relationships that have come out Local Churches with a vision to Evangelize the lost, Disciple the Believers and Multiply through Church Planting. Win-Build-Send clearly states our purpose.

Praise Chapel began with one church in Maywood, California 1976. Pastors Mike and Donna Neville moved to the Los Angeles area from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The area of the church was very strongly gang and drug infested. Within a few years God began to move in a very special way as gang members and their families began to be saved. Soon the church was filled with people on fire for God who went out side the church into the streets and neighborhoods of the Los Angeles are preaching the gospel and seeing souls saved.

Following what God was doing, Mike and Donna began to train pastors and send them out into the various areas of Los Angeles to start new churches. God blessed these new pastors and churches as they reached the unsaved and unchurched people.

Today Praise Chapel Family of Fellowships has multiplied into many areas of the United States and the world. With over 175 churches in the United States and hundreds more in over 13 nations. Praise Chapel has become a "Family of Fellowships." What started with one church, became a Fellowship of churches and now has multiplied into a "Family of Fellowships" all over the world.

Every two years Praise Chapel Family of Fellowships join together for a World Bible Conference. July, 2006 will be the next one in Phoenix, Arizona. Along with this World Conference, the various Fellowship that have now been raise-up also have Bible Conference in many places in the United States and other Countries.

Praise Chapel is an on going and growing story as New Churches are being started continually and Fellowships of Churches continue to develop and increase. It is a Book of Acts story being written today.