Bio

Matt Pritchard’s passion is developing Christian communities that flourish to shape and inspire the Church. This work involves everything from networking individuals of similar calls together and pastoral care to leading and exploring relational expressions of ecclesia to advising and coaching communities and church leaders.

For the last several years, Matt has provided leadership and formation to a variety of ecclesial expressions of community, from campus ministries, to intentional Christian/new monastic communities, to emerging and traditional church communities.  Much of Matt’s work is informal and organic, from leading a weekly dinner gathering of 20-30 participants to having coffee with seminarians and other church leaders.  He is an entrepreneur and experimenter: helping communities form and then training and releasing them to other leadership.  He is a pastor: helping people live more fully into that which they were created to be.  He is an architect, midwife, and trail-guide: helping communities and organizations find life, order, and vibrancy.  He is a speaker and thought-leader: teaching groups in a variety of topics including avoiding the common mistakes new communities make, relational evangelism, recognizing the voice of God, the idol of knowing, and the shape of Christian engagement with the world.

Matt lives in Pittsburgh where he works with Kingdom Experiments (kingdomexperiments.org) who’s overarching mission is to help the church defy the captivity of this world and dream, vision, and experiment towards the Kingdom of God.  In addition to meeting with people in general, a key project of Kingdom Experiments has been a weekly community meal that models the practice of hospitality so foreign to much of the American church and provides space for people to both laugh and grapple with the hard questions of our day.

Matt is the convener of Pittsburgh Year, an association of one-year programs dedicated to developing communities of young leaders to seek the peace of the city of Pittsburgh. He is also a staff worker with InterVarsity at the University of Pittsburgh.

Matt is on staff with the Simple Way (thesimpleway.org) where he leads the Community of Communities initiative (communityofcommunities.info), helping build local networks of communities and connecting people with intentional Christian communities, and works with organizational strategy.

Matt is a board member of the House of St Michael the Archangel, a community dedicated to reading early church writings in the pursuit of “total conversion.”

He is a former member of Grace Community House, Culpeper House, and Casa Chirilagua (casachirilagua.org) intentional Christian communities.  He is a cofounder and former coordinator of the DC Area Community of Communities, a network of intentional Christian communities.  He served as Minister of Discipleship for Fairlington Presbyterian (fairlingtonpres.org) where he was planter and pastoral leader for an emerging church called Holy Grounds (fairlingtonholygrounds.org).

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