BOB CARLTON

Prior to starting his church planting journey over 25 years ago, Bob served as a worship leader and started the college ministry "Encounter" at Willow Creek Community Church. He and two other pastors from Willow Creek then moved to Austin, TX to plant Gateway Community Church, a dynamic church known for the phrase "no perfect people allowed." Bob is also an accomplished musician, having won a Dove Award for Hard Music Album of the Year while playing with the "post nuclear rock & roll" band Massivivid.

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After a lengthy season of touring he returned to Austin to help plant two more churches then helped develop and lead the Emerging Church Network. He then moved to Nashville, TN and served as the Church Multiplication Minister of Brentwood Baptist Church where he created the global church planting pipeline known as TRAIN. During his seven years there, he helped lead the church from one campus to five, planted seven churches and developed over 1oo missional community leaders. In addition to his work at Brentwood Baptist, he helped Mac Lake (the Leadership Pipeline Guru) develop and lead LAUNCH & MULTIPLY. This work now serves as the operating system for one of the largest church planting organizations in the world, the SEND Network.

In 2014 Bob and his wife Kristina moved to beautiful Holland, Michigan where he served as the Movement Pastor of Ridge Point Community Church and developed the Fearless Network of Churches. Holland also served as his home base while traveling the United States as the National Director of Recruiting for Stadia Church Planting. 

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Most recently Bob was the Executive Director of Highpoint SEND a gospel-centered, global church planting network of Highpoint Church.. Bob developed and led the network to become a diverse family of churches that is catalyzing church multiplication around the world now with 6 global hubs.

Bob is leveraging over 25 years of experience, relationships and resources to help YOU multiply your Kingdom impact. His desire is to help YOU catalyze a church planting movement.

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When he is home you can find him serving as the Chaplain of the Park Township Fire Department, enjoying an espresso with his wife Kristina on the porch of their favorite coffee shop while laughing with neighbors, or playing on the beach with his crazy rescue dog, Walter Alan 100% Good Boy.

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Don't think of me as a consultant, think of me as a team member. You need EPIC results not just good ideas. I will personally help you move from ideation to infrastructure to implementation!

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