Meet Pastor Charles Newman
This Sunday!
Rev. Charles Newman, a native from Los Angeles, CA has served in ministry for over 25 years. He is passionate about discipleship, mission, church planting and building a church for the next generation. He has served in congregations in a variety of capacities and contexts in urban, suburban and small towns in California, Illinois, Georgia and Arizona. He served at Messiah as the Youth Director before answering the call to ordained ministry from 1998-2000. Charles is a church consultant and mission developer coach and church planter.
In 2014, he planted Crossroads Lutheran Church in Arizona with an intentional focus on building and making disciples. Crossroads has now become a network of missional communities throughout the country. He is married to Jenifer, a graduate from Texas Lutheran University and 3rd grade school teacher. Together they have a blended family with five children, Brianna (24), Sydney (20), CJ (19), Emily (17), and Nathaniel (16).
