Professional Ministry Experience

• Founding / Lead Pastor
  LifePoint Church, Ozark, Missouri
  February 2004 – present
• Minister of Single Adults / Adult Discipleship / Young Adult Speaker
  Second Baptist Church, Springfield, Missouri
  1999 – 2004
• Pastor
  First Baptist Church, Huttig, Arkansas
  1997 – 1999
• Adult Bible Fellowship Leader & Teacher
  Glenview Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas
  1996 – 1997
• Associate Pastor & Youth Minister
  First Baptist Church, Benbrooke, Texas
  1995
• Associate Pastor & Youth Minister
  First Baptist Church, Nashville, Arkansas
  1991 – 1994
• Associate Pastor & Youth Minister
  First Baptist Church, Strong, Arkansas
  1989 – 1991

Professional Involvement and Missional Leadership

• Vice Chair, Executive Director-Treasurer Search Team
  Missouri Baptist Convention
  2023
• Second Vice President
  Missouri Baptist Convention
  2020 – 2022
• Trustee and Board Officer
  Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  2018 – present
• Sponsor, Leader and Teacher; Annual Church Planter and Spouse Retreat
  SEND Network, Montana Southern Baptist Convention
  2020 – present
• Board Member
  Least of These Food Pantry, Christian County, MO
  2014 – 2016
• Board Member
  Go61 Anti-human trafficking organization, Springfield, MO
  2014 – 2016
• Helped found orphanage
  Santa Cruz del Quiche, Quiche, Guatemala
  2010 – 2012

• Launched Internship / Residency Program for church planters, ministers, and missionaries
  A program to identify, train, and send church planters and missionaries through LifePoint Church
  2006 – present
• Plant Ozarks Regional Network founder / leader
  A regional network to train, encourage, and resource church planters and pastors.
  2006 – 2018
• Pastor Training leader and teacher
  Guatemala, Nicaragua, France, Montana
  2004 – present
• Assessor, Coach, Trainer, and Mentor for church planters, pastors, and leaders
  2004 – present
• Various national and state Single Adult Ministers associations and leadership roles
  1999 – 2004
• Various state and associational leadership roles
  Arkansas
  1989 – 1999

Personal Strengths

• Preaching, teaching, and storytelling
• Launching and leading new mission work
• Identifying, equipping, and empowering servant leaders
• Collaborate to build and lead teams
• Vision-casting to unite and advance mission
• Critical thinking and decision-making for creative, solution-based leadership
• Developing missional strategies and evaluations
• Coaching and training church planters, pastors, and leaders

Personal Values

• Grace-fueled obedience
• Strong marriage and family
• Enjoying God's creation
• Biblical authority
• Local church priority
• Spirit-led missional living
• Walk in godly wisdom
• Disciple making and soul-winning
• Investing in next generation

Hobbies

• Biking: gravel and MTB
• Hiking and backpacking
• Fishing and Hunting
• Travel and cultural study
• Woodworking, carpentry, and cabinet making
• Anything with my wife and kids

Personal & Family Information

• Ordained
  First Baptist Church, Strong, Arkansas
  September 1991
• Husband to Christin (Smith) Harrison
  Married in 1993
• Father to
  • Joshua Michail Harrison and wife, Holly.
  • Bethany Ann Harrison