Our Staff
ELLIOT GRUDEM
Elliot is the founder and president of Leaders Collective. He has served as pastor of church planting at Vintage Church (Raleigh), director of the Acts29 Network and a pastor at Mars Hill Church (Seattle) and senior minister at Christ the King Presbyterian Church (Raleigh), a church he replanted. He also worked for an urban ministry in New Orleans. He worked for a Fortune 100 company prior to seminary. He is the editor of Christian Beliefs, a book he completed with his father, Wayne. Elliot holds degrees from Miami University (BA, History and English) and Reformed Theological Seminary (M.Div.). He and his wife Kacey live in Raleigh with their daughter.
DAVE SCHUTTER
Our church planter cohort is facilitated by a team of Leaders Collective alumni pastors. Jeff leads that team as our Director of Church Planting. He is currently the Senior Pastor of Northwest Presbyterian Church in Dublin, OH. He holds degrees from Miami University (B.A.), Covenant Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Westminster Seminary (Th.M.). He and his wife Kim live in Dublin, OH. They have three children.
JOHN ELLIOTT
John Elliott is the Partnership Director at Leaders Collective, facilitating the relationship between pastors, church planters, and churches and Leaders Collective. Himself a former pastor and alumni of a Leaders Collective pastor cohort, John now spends much of his time leading Uptapt Consulting, an organizational health firm he founded in 2017. He holds degrees from University of Illinois (BA) and Urbana Theological Seminary (MA). He and his wife Janelle live in Champaign, IL. They have four children.
JIM COFFIELD
Dr. Jim Coffield serves Leaders Collectives’ church planters and pastors as a mentor, primarily through counseling and spiritual formation. He is also on staff with Christ Covenant Church in Knoxville, TN as their Director of Adult Ministries and Counseling. Prior to that, he was a full-time professor at Reformed Theological Seminary He holds degrees from the University of Tennessee (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) and is a licensed psychologist. He is married to Mona. They have three adult children and one grandchild. They live outside of Knoxville.
Our Board
Dave Chattleton / Raleigh, NC
Gib Gibson / Memphis, TN
Elliot Grudem / Raleigh, NC
Josh Reitano / Cincinnati, OH
Thomas Shupe / Raleigh, NC