Chet & Phyllis Swearingen
Missionaries & Revivalists
About Chet Swearingen & Beautiful Feet
Chet Swearingen is a multi-generational minister with more than four decades of ministry experience spanning the local church, global missions, revival history, and deliverance ministry.
Chet served eight years in the United States Navy, during which he encountered a significant move of God through a revival that took place aboard his first ship. Following his military service, he spent twelve years working in power plants and industrial maintenance. Throughout those twenty years, he remained deeply involved in ministry, serving in various leadership roles, earning his Ph.D. from International Seminary, and functioning as a bi-vocational associate pastor.
From 1999 to 2009, Chet served full-time as an associate pastor at New Hope Christian Center in Waterloo, Indiana. On May 17, 1998, he led his home church in adopting an unreached people group in a restricted-access nation—an initiative that would later shape the next chapter of his ministry.
“We believe revival is not a moment, but a way of life—and our desire is to help believers and churches walk in that reality.”
— Chet & Phyllis Swearingen
In 2009, Chet and his wife Phyllis relocated to that nation to work alongside local believers in initiating a church-planting movement among their church’s adopted people group. Over the following years, the work bore significant fruit, resulting in over 100 churches planted, along with multiple complementary missions initiatives. All of this growth is credited to the faithful leadership of the national church they partnered with. That church, which began in 2004, now has a weekly attendance exceeding 2,600.
Although they remain actively connected to that work, Chet and Phyllis returned to the United States in early 2015 with a renewed focus: to inspire revival in believers and churches. This calling led to the formation of the revival ministry Beautiful Feet.
Chet and Phyllis were married on June 9, 1984, and have two grown children.
Home Church
New Hope Christian Center
Waterloo, Indiana
- Attending since 1995
- Served ten years on full-time pastoral staff
- Remain actively involved in the life and ministry of the church
What We Do in the United States
Serving Churches
Beautiful Feet exists with a singular mission: to revive believers and churches. The ministry’s goal is to see congregations alive with God’s presence and disciples actively multiplying disciples. This mission is pursued through two primary avenues.
Revival Resources
Beautiful Feet has researched and documented over 2,514 historical and contemporary revival accounts, all freely accessible on the ministry’s website. This growing archive is used by hundreds of thousands worldwide, translated into multiple languages, and serves as a source of instruction, encouragement, and faith.
In addition, the ministry publishes numerous articles addressing revival from a biblical and historical perspective, with particular emphasis on the Principles of Revival.
Individual Revival — Deliverance Ministry
What revival is to a congregation, community, or region, deliverance and freedom are to the individual. To support this work, Beautiful Feet has developed a wide range of free training resources and established the Beautiful Feet School of Deliverance, dedicated to equipping and developing leaders for this ministry.
Deliverance Seminar Fort Wayne, IN
What We Do Overseas
Student in the first jungle school
that was started in 2011.
Chet and Phyllis lived for more than five years in a restricted-access nation, where they witnessed—and continue to witness—a powerful and ongoing move of the Holy Spirit. Though currently based in the United States, they remain actively involved in the overseas work through regular return visits, fundraising, translation projects, and strategic networking on behalf of their national partners.
Current Overseas Activities
- Support of national church planters
- Church-planter training school
- Ongoing leadership development
- Support of evangelism teams
- Startup and support of K–12 education
- Feeding the poor
- Care and support for orphans and widows
Contact
To learn how to partner with Chet and Phyllis in their ministry:
Email: romans1015@outlook.com
Phone: (260) 920-8248
