Ryan Motter

Ryan Motter is from Lenexa, KS, a suburb on the south side of Kansas City. During high school, Ryan became heavily involved within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), immersing himself in his home church (Shawnee Park Christian Church), and in regional youth and national youth leadership. During this time, Ryan felt called to ministry for the first time. After spending a summer working with Tall Oaks Christian Conference Center and Camp in Linwood, KS, he began his tenure at Texas Christian University. Following his first year of school, Ryan went to Newton, Iowa, where he was a Summer Intern at the Christian Conference Center for the Christian Church in the Upper Midwest and, the following summer, a call led him to Broadway Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri where he worked with and researched elements of worship and spiritual formation in youth ministry. It was during this time that he discovered one of his real passions: a focus on renewed and innovative worship that helps communities come to better understandings of themselves, of each other, and of God. He graduated from Texas Christian University in May 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and English, with a minor emphasis in Business, and he comes to us fresh from a Ministerial Internship at Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked with youth and social action in an urban core context. Ryan enjoys good food and good friends regularly, and attempts to golf when the need for humiliation hits.

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