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L. Rowland Smith
National Director, Forge America · Founder, The Pando Collective
Colorado Springs, Colorado
National Forge leader, micro-church network founder, pastor, and curator of the Red Skies conversation.
Rowland Smith carries the National Director role at Forge America while founding and directing The Pando Collective, a Front-Range micro-church network, and pastoring missional culture at The Church at Pulpit Rock in Colorado Springs.
He has authored Life Out Loud: Joining Jesus Outside the Walls of the Church (100 Movements Publishing, 2019) and curated and edited Red Skies: 10 Essential Conversations Exploring Our Future as the Church (100 Movements Publishing, 2022), a multi-author conversation with Alan Hirsch, Michael Frost, Debra Hirsch, Brian Sanders, Mark DeYmaz, Rich Robinson, and others.
He teaches as adjunct faculty at Fuller, Denver Seminary, and Grand Canyon University, holding an MA in Global Leadership and a DMiss from Fuller. His doctoral dissertation, Missional Emergence, has its own published authority record.
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Featured work
- Life Out Loud (100 Movements Publishing, 2019)
- Red Skies, curator and editor (100 Movements Publishing, 2022)
- Missional Emergence, doctoral dissertation (Fuller)