JR Woodward

JR Woodward is a seasoned church planter, activist, and missiologist, and is currently the National Director for Church Planting with V3, a missional church planting movement. He is the author of Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World (2013), the co-author of The Church as Movement (2016).  JR’s newest book, The Scandal of Leadership (2023), will be released at Awakenings 2023 this year! JR is founder of New Life Christian Fellowship (NLCF) and co-founder of the Praxis Gathering, Kairos LA, the Solis Foundation, Ecclesia Network, and Missio Alliance. He serves locally with the District Church in Washington DC. JR received his PhD from the University of Manchester (UK), and a Masters of Art in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He loves to surf, travel, read, skateboard, and meet new people. He enjoys photography and film and tries to attend the Sundance Film Festival whenever he can.