Chris Steubing is a pastor who has served as an ordained minister of the ELCA for congregations in Minnesota and Michigan. He now oversees congregational vitality and new ministry initiatives as Director for the Evangelical Mission of the Southwestern Texas Synod of the ELCA. Pastor Chris attended Texas Lutheran University and Luther Seminary and worked in several churches as a youth and family minister and a praise band leader before ordination. His most recent congregational ministry setting was a specialized mission partnership with the ELCA and the St. Paul Area Synod, where he led a congregation through a multi-year process of spiritual and organizational renewal. Pastor Chris is passionate about family, music, the San Antonio Spurs, and equipping the baptized people of God to follow Jesus in everyday life.