Planting with us

In his blog, Ed Stetzer encourages, "if you are planting a church you need a coach..."

A coach is perhaps one of the most important resources to a church planter.

The role of the church planting coach is to draw the best out of the church planter, and to provide support, resources and accountability to the church planter. Once approved by assessment, every PPN church planter will have opportunity to work with a trained coach who will connect with them twice each month. Below are our current church plant coaches:

Mike Nortune - Founding Pastor, Life Church, Concord, CA. Mike has been a youth pastor, a national youth director, a camp and conference speaker and currently pastors the church he planted 7 years ago with his wife Julie and 6 kids.

Brandon & Joy Berg - Founding Pastor, Rhapsody Church, Vancouver, WA. Brandon has served as a youth and staff pastor in Washington and California. He currently pastors the church he planted 3 years ago with his wife Joy and his 2 kids.

Dr. Don Bryan - Executive Director, Mission USA, Eugene, OR. Don has been responsible for the planting of dozens of churches in both Trinidad and the U.S. He has served as the President of Eugene Bible College and the Regional Director of Pacific Open Bible. Don is currently working primarily as a coach with our multi-ethnic church planters.

Dr. Phil Newell - Founder, "To Finish Well"; Ministry Coach; Faculty at Life Pacific College. Phil pastored First Church of the Open Bible in Portland, OR for over 30 years. He has served as a church planting coach and assessor with the Church Multiplication Training Center and with CRM.

Joaquin Ramos - Director of Hispanic Ministries, Open Bible Churches. Joaquin serves as a coach to our Hispanic church plants.