National Team National Church Planting Team
The national church planting team is responsible for fleshing out our seven system strategy and developing the resources that will allow our planters to be successful in their planting ministry.
The Church Planting Team consists of individuals from our districts around the country who are responsible for church planting in their districts.
 Mark Doss
Church Planting Director
Central District
Mark serves as the church planting director for the EFCA Central District.
Vicente Flores
EFCA Texas/OK District
Vince serves as the church planting director for the EFCA Texas/OK District
Steve Elliott
Church Planting Director
EFCA West
Brett Gleason
Great Lakes District
Brett serves as the church planting director for the Great Lakes District.
 Bruce Redmond
Director of Church Planting
Rocky Mountain District
Bruce has served as youth director, associate pastor and senior pastor. He pastored a church that started three new churches. Since January 1998, Bruce has been a church planting missionary in the Rocky Mountain District. Recently he was officially put on staff with the district. Bruce has also been a Sonlife Ministries trainer and has done consulting and ministry assessments for churches. He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute.
Bruce has a passion to see new churches intentionally making disciples and reproducing new churches. He is convinced that church planting is one of the primary and effective ways to see evangelism and disciple making take place. His desire is to see tens of thousands of people coming to Christ in such a way that a movement of of new churches would sweep our country.
To see this realized, Bruce has committed to:
- Persistently praying for the Lord of the Harvest to raise up workers to go into the harvest.
- Building a district church planting team through the multiple regions within the Rocky Mountain District.
- Building the seven support systems for church planters.
- Developing a reproducing movement among the established churches throughout the district.
Bruce states that by God's grace only, they have seen 26 church plant projects initiated. Bruce's faith goal is to see 20 to 30 new churches begin each year and 100 new churches over the next 15 years.
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 Ray Olson
Forest Lakes District
Mark Overmyer
New England District
Mark serves as the church planting director for the New England District.
 Ross Anderson
Intermountain West
Ross is the founding pastor of Wasatch Evangelical Free Church in Roy, Utah, where he has served since graduating from seminary in 1983. He was born in Utah and raised in California as an active member of the Mormon (Latter-day Saint) Church. He is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego. He has a Master of Divinity with an emphasis on missions from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry degree.
His passion is to see untold numbers of people come to know the grace of Jesus Christ through the multiplication of healthy, impactful, and culturally discerning churches throughout the Intermountain West District. As the local religious culture has changed, Ross has observed unprecedented opportunities to proclaim Christ in a region historically resistant to the Gospel. These opportunities will best be reaped by new churches willing to creatively contextualize their message and form in light of the dominant culture.
Drawing on his Latter-day Saint background, Ross desires to be a leader in helping the Christian church in the Intermountain West to apply missiological thinking. By also drawing on his church-planting experience (including his failures), he hopes to help other church planters have what they need to succeed in this challenging region.
As senior pastor of Wasatch Church, Ross has a vision to catalyze a reproducing movement that will result in 20 new churches by the year 2020. The first daughter church was launched in 2002. Ross began working in partnership with the Intermountain West District and the Evangelical Free Church national office in 2001 to see this vision expand beyond Wasatch Church to mobilize the entire region. Ross has been working to establish systems of recruiting, coaching, training, and assessment in the district to build a foundation of church planting success into the future.
 Randy Littlefield
Associate Superintendent
Midwest District
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