Field: Lexington, KY
Home States: New Jersey & Nebraska
Children: Luke

John and Katheryn Heinz seek to help the traditional downtown church navigate the changing urban culture, and to learn how to better communicate the gospel in word and deed in urban areas. They have spent the past eight years immersed in building relationships cross-culturally in their downtown community in order to learn how to love God and their neighbors better. They are developing a practical missions discipling model that equips churches to empower their congregations to live out their faith within the life of a city. John and Katheryn are adjunct faculty at Asbury Theological Seminary, where they earned an MA in World Mission and Evangelism and an MDiv, respectively. They both have prior professional experience working with a range of urban issues including mental health, addiction recovery, public health, and community advocacy. They live in the East End neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky with their son, Luke, and dog, Watson.