About
Eric has been married to Liz since 1977. They have three grown children.
Son Andy and his wife Natalie live in East Asia and are proud parents of their baby daughter, Jenda Zoe (b. 12/18/06).
Son Jeff returned February, 2005, from serving our country in Baghdad with the 126th MP Company for one year. Jeff and his wife, Ashlie, have one baby boy (b. 9/8/05), Gentry David. They are both recent graduates from the University of Colorado.
Daughter Kacey was married to Erik Olson on May 27, 2006. Erik is running a Servepro franchise and Kacey graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in December, 2007.
Eric and Liz served with Campus Crusade for 25 years before Eric joined Tango as Director of Charitable Investing.
He is the co-author of “The Externally Focused Church,” “Living a Life on Loan” (re-released in September 2009 as “The Externally Focused Life”),and has written several published articles on churches that are serving their community. In 2010 Jossey-Bass will release “Becoming an Externally Focused Church” and Zondervan will release “To Transform a City.” In partnership with Leadership Network (www.leadnet.org) Eric serves as a Leadership Community Director for Externally Focused Churches and co-director with Reggie McNeal of the Missional Renaissance Leadership Community. He is also co-founder of GoodCities–a movement focused on community transformation. In June of 2007 he received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Bakke Graduate University (bgu.edu).
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Eric,
Just wanted to drop a line. I have heard you speak many times and it has always been a blessings. I am now piloting something new (and relatively unknown) for the campus ministry. Check it out at CruPartners.com. Basically it is planting W/B/S movements on college campuses by partnering with the body (churches, voluneteers, alumni). I saw you were speaking at Group’s Volunteer Conference in the fall. If you think this worthwhile I would love to come teach churches how they can start campus ministries in partnership w/ CCC. thanks for considering it. -John
Hey Eric: The last time we met for that long breakfast in Thailand, we talked about what I was doing with the 100%SENT Initiative (Every Student Sent) with USCM. Well, things are beginning to move along. I would love to reconnect on this again sometime to get your thoughts and input on various aspects. Give me a call or email me and let’s talk about this. Say hi to Andy for me! Holly Sheldon [1-863-399-0116]