Pastor Dana H. Nile holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Montana State University and is a graduate of Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dana holds ordination credentials with Rhema Ministerial Association International (RMAI) and the Association of Faith Churches and Ministers (AFCM). His wife, Liz, also attended Rhema and is ordained through AFCM. Pastors Dana and Liz have served as AFCM Regional Directors for the Carolinas and Georgia since 2001.
Pastors Dana and Liz began full time ministry in 1984, when they accepted a four year missionary assignment to Nepal and moved to a remote Himalayan area previously unreached by the Gospel. Since that assignment, Dana has ministered in seven other nations and Liz in three. Together they have pastored in Montana, Siberia and South Carolina.
Since 1998 they have been the Senior Pastors at Coastal Christian Center in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where they have a mandate to duplicate. The Lord has made it clear that this Church is to be a training and sending base: Coastal Christian Center is to be a place where people can grow strong in the Word and learn the ways of the Spirit. A place where people are trained by precept and example to use what they learn to influence those they come into contact with on a daily basis. A place where people are expanding their sphere of influence to include nations that desperately need the uncompromised Word of God preached in the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit.