UPDATE: MS TORNADO RESPONSE

January 9, 2023

Chris Vogel

Chris Vogel

MNA CHURCH PLANTING AND VITALITY COORDINATOR

About Chris Vogel

Chris Vogel is from Lancaster, PA and settled in Wisconsin 38 years ago, after seminary (Columbia Graduate School, now CIU) to pursue a Ph.D. at Marquette University. While a graduate student, he assisted with a church plant on Milwaukee’s eastside out of which he planted a church in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee in 1992. Chris served as the planter and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Waukesha (later moved to Delafield, WI) for 26 years. In 2017 Chris became the Director of the On Wisconsin Network and then in 2018 he transitioned from the senior pastor role to launch NXTGEN Pastors, a new work that provides presbyteries and networks the mechanism to create mentored cohorts to be trained in the soft skills necessary for pastoral health. Chris served the Presbyterian Church in America’s Mission to North America as the Ecosystem Development Director from 2020 to 2022 and in 2023 he became the Church Planting and Vitality Coordinator for MNA. Chris and Janet have been married 42 years, have three children: Jenny is married to Sam Brown, (Assistant Pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, TN) and they have three sons. Chris and Janet’s son, John, works in Houston, and Michael (married to Emma) is the pastor of Harvest Church of Madison in Wisconsin, and they have two daughters, ages 2 and 5 months.

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Chris Vogel

MNA CHURCH PLANTING AND VITALITY COORDINATOR