Rick Rusaw

Rick Rusaw served as the Lead Pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, Colorado for over 25 years. He is the co-founder of Externally Focused network and the co-author of three books: Externally Focused Church, Externally Focused Life, and Externally Focused Quest.  Before LifeBridge Church, Rick served as Vice President of Cincinnati Christian University and was an associate minister at First Christian Church in Fort Meyers, Florida. He is a graduate of Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary.  Rick and his wife, Diane, have three children.

Rick now serves as President of Spire.Network, whose missions is to encourage and equip ministry leaders who inspire a movement of healthy growing churches. More than a conference or a collection of resources, Spire.Network is also a community of pastors and leaders leaning on each other throughout the entire year. Our goal is to encourage and equip the ministry leaders who inspire a movement of healthy growing churches.