Steve Childers

Steve is Founder and President of GCA continuing as Pathway Learning with the mission "to educate aspiring church leaders to start, grow, and multiply gospel-centered churches among all nations." Same Vision. New Strategy.

He is an experienced church planter and pastor who has written church leadership training curriculum and helped train thousands of church leaders from more than 300 denominations representing over 50 countries (7 languages) on 5 continents.

He is also a professor of practical theology (since 1995) at Reformed Theological Seminary, in Orlando, where he teaches evangelism, spiritual formation, church planting, church renewal, leadership, and missions.

He has masters degrees from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, and a doctorate from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. Steve has also done doctoral studies in global mission at Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of World Mission.

Steve and his wife Becky live in Orlando, Florida, and have three adult daughters and one granddaughter.