About

Eric has a passion for engaging churches worldwide in the needs and dreams of their communities toward the end of spiritual and societal transformation. He is a UC Berkeley grad and holds a DMin in Transformational Leadership in the Global City from BGU. He served with Cru for twenty-five years before joining the staff of Leadership Network where he worked with scores of missional churches around North America. He is the co-author of five books including The Externally Focused Church (Group, 2004), The Externally Focused Quest (Fortress Press, 2020) , and To Transform a City (Zondervan, 2010), and numerous articles on churches that are transforming their communities. Since 1999 Eric has also been working with Tango/Gloo, currently working on a mobile-digital platform designed for life change and since 2001 with Leadership Network as a missional specialist until Leadership Network closed their doors in 2020. He was also adjunct professor at Denver Seminary for four years. He serves on the advisory boards of US Rugby Foundation and Christians for Social Action.

Eric has been married to Liz since 1977, has three married children, eight grandchildren and resides in Longmont Colorado with Liz and their Australian Labradoodle, Riley Lu.

Son Andy and his wife Natalie served in China for 17 years before moving to San Antonio in 2020 and are proud parents of their daughter, Jenda Zoe (b. 12/18/06) and sons Daniel Blaise (b. 05/13/2009) and Eric Titus (b. 9/21/12)

Son Jeff and his wife, Ashlie, live in Longmont, CO and have one son (b. 9/8/05), Gentry David and one daughter, Maelie Hope (b.7/5/14). Jeff is a software engineer with Charter Communications in Denver, a graphic story teller and founder of StreetBuff. Ashlie serves as a eLearning Coordinator with St. Vrain School District.

Daughter Kacey is married to Erik Olson and they have one son, Lincoln Stone (b. 09.19.11) and two beautiful daughters, Violet Anne (b. 6/5/13) and Saylor May (5/12/16) live in the (refurbished) 1910 Ryssby School house in Longmont, CO. Erik is the owner of Servpro of Greater Boulder.

Contact Eric at eric@tangogroup.com