About Rob Bryceson
Innovator
Rob Bryceson has over 30 years of experience serving in large corporate churches, small and medium churches, church planting, and church revitalization. He’s been a lead pastor, teaching pastor, worship leader, and program director. Rob is the pastor of The Gathering House in Spokane, WA. He is known as a gifted public speaker and teacher.
A turning point came when Rob found himself leading a decaying, downtown church in an urban blight neighborhood, surrounded by homeless street people. Everything he’d been taught and all the practices he’d learned were of little use. Without knowing anything about street life he and his wife began a ministry to the lowest rung of American society. The street population began to attend the church and things began to radically shift in how he did ministry, and how he prioritized his life. The lessons he would learn would generate new ideas and strategies for how to build a different kind of church, one fully engaging the community.
His ingenuity created a new church location that not only conducts worship services but is also a daily meet up coffee house and social network hub. It serves as an important event center hosting dozens of community meetings, both civic and non-profit. His current church is influential for local business meetings and trainings, government policy and leadership discussions, non-profit meetings, and numerous fund raisers benefitting the community. His church leads in issues of racial reconciliation, offers city-wide strategic planning for the homeless and marginalized, and does significant work in local community development. He has created entertainment events from dinner theater to concerts to art shows and comedy nights. Although it is not a large church in attendance, it is safe to say, it’s easily one of the more influential ministries in a county of half a million people.
Rob was invited to speak at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge Mass as an inspirational, national leader who is finding creative ways to bring harmony to a relationally fractured society.
info@robbryceson.com
Teaching and Training
A New Model of Ministry
How a protestant church with 40 members, 20 drunks, 4 dogs, and $180,000 in debt survived and made a shift where even the Catholics and Mormons chipped in to help.
Building A Church On The New Frontier: On the religious frontiers of modern America most people couldn’t care less that churches exist. What they want to know is—“Do you make any difference in society?” Building a church that will change your neighborhood and city, seven days a week.
Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. . . ” Following Jesus in his mission means first learning about poverty culture, how it thinks differently and shares different values than the middle class. Middleclass answers to problems need to be redesigned to work for the poor.
Stories From The Kingdom of God:
Rob has built a solid reputation as a gifted Bible teacher using insights into history and cultural contexts that make the stories come alive. He doesn’t take himself seriously, but he sure takes the Scriptures seriously. Retreats, Conferences, Guest Preaching.
Work Experience
14 Years: Lead Pastor
The Gathering House. Spokane, WA.
7 Years: President of Street Wise
Non-profit ministry to the homeless and marginalized. Spokane, WA.
4 Years: Worship Pastor, Teaching Pastor Pleasanton Presbyterian Church. Pleasanton, CA.
2 Years: Teaching Pastor, Worship Leader, and Alternative Service Leader,
Creekside Community Church. Alamo, CA.
4 Years: Church planter
White Stone Church. Dublin, CA.
7 Years: Teaching Pastor, Program Director Crosswinds Church. Dublin, CA.
2 Years: College Ministry
Scottsdale Bible Church. Scottsdale AZ.
2 years Song Writer and Bass Player
The Joel Weldon Band
Education
Master's in Divinity:
Western Seminary, Portland OR.
Graduate Degree in Ministry: Multnomah School of the Bible, Portland OR
Bachelor's in Education, History Major, English and Government Minors: Eastern Washington University.
Professional skills
- Gifted Bible Teacher
- Inspirational Public Speaker
- Strategic Planning and Creative Ideas
- Singer/Songwriter Guitar Player
- Experienced at leading Coffee Shop Church
- Event Center coordinator
- Leadership Team of The Spokane Homeless Coalition
- Member of The Garland Business District
- Effective grant writer.
- He is a humorous and inspiring writer.
- Rob has a way of making connections and seeing new perspectives that create fresh opportunities
