NOCN Team

Director

Matt Price

Matt teaches intercultural studies at Mount Vernon Nazarene University and is lead pastor at Shepherd's House in Apple Valley, Ohio.

He reads a lot of sci-fi and fantasy novels.  Some of Matt's favorite authors are Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Frederick Buechner.

Task Force

John Huddle

John has been doing organic church on college campuses and in urban environments since 1998. He presently pastors with Westchester Church of the Nazarene (a network of organic churches) and works with World Vision as the West Region Director for Team World Vision.

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R. Mark Montgomery

R. Mark Montgomery is a co-vocational organic church practitioner, leading the Lansing BreakThrough Church of the Nazarene in Michigan, a network of 15 congregations in neighborhoods and marketplaces.

He is the founder of the BreakThrough Equipping Network (BTEN), a kingdom-focus, missional organic leadership equipping and coaching service for the Church of Greater Lansing (COGL) association.

Mark, a certified trainer with both DCPI and New Church Specialties, leads the Michigan District Nazarene NewStarts Team and serves as the facilitator of the Michigan Tri-District Church Planting Conversation. His incarnational perch is as a certified financial advisor in private practice in Okemos, Michigan.

Mark's favorite congregation would meet on a golf course, where you can really get to know people. Mark and his wife, Val, have two sons, two cats, and two dachshunds (secret weapons in domestic missionary work).

Howie Shute

Howie facilitated an organic movement in the Horn of Africa where 2500 new churches were established in an eleven year period. He currently serves as Lead Pastor at Victory Hills Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City, Kansas.