Fari was originally born in Iran and was brought up as a Muslim believer. It was first in Canada that him and his family were introduced to Christianity. In the year 2004 Fari put his faith in Christ and shortly after started studying at Christ College in Surrey. While still in Bible college Fari got married to Angela in 2006 and today they have two beautiful girls. In the year 2008 he graduated with a Bachelor of Theology and very soon after started working at the Union Gospel Mission on the outreach team serving the community in the Downtown Eastside. Fari was ordained at Coastal Church in 2011 and continued to minister as an outreach worker at UGM.

On January 7, 2014 Fari started working at Coastal Church as the campus pastor for our new Strathcona site in DTES believing that God is calling Him to move to a different position but still serve the same community. Fari is currently working towards finishing his Master of Divinity.