Jon Scott Birch

Jon Scott Birch is an interdenominational discipleship pastor and has been teaching, counseling, and discipling for over twenty-five years. His personal ministry, Proximity: Recovering the Lost Art of Discipleship, is a discipleship-driven mission aiming to recover and promote the early church model as recorded in the biblical book of Acts where Jesus Christ, close relationships, and discipleship-apologetics were the pillars of Christianity. Jon’s passion is seeing people come to know Christ personally, reclaiming their identity and understanding discipleship as a way of life and not as a term to define or mere Bible study. He graduated Methodist Academy and Christian World College of Theology, and has studied psychology with extensive experience in counseling. He enjoys reading/studying Scripture, history, and science fiction/fantasy with particular focus on J.R.R. Tolkien...and coffee.