Leadership

Executive Director

Ron's bio photo

 Ron McCrary was the senior rector of Christ Church in Overland Park, KS, for 21 years prior to joining AIM Church Planting. Under his leadership, Christ Church grew to over 1,000. Born and raised in St. Louis, Ron is a graduate of Washington University (BA), the University of Texas (MA), and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest (M.Div.). He also completed graduate work at Fuller Seminary. Ron's passion is to invest in developing the next generation of Anglican church planters and to add muscle to the Anglican Mission's vision to reach 130 million unchurched Americans through church planting led him to become the Executive Director of the Anglican Initiative. Ron and his wife Ann live in Richardson, TX, and are members of Christ Church, where Ron maintains an office. They have three children and four grandchildren. A former symphony violinist, Ron relaxes by playing the violin, riding horses, and eating chocolate.

The Board of Directors for AIM Church Planting provides wisdom, oversight, and direction for the church planting movement.

 

 Bishop Philip Jones has served as senior pastor of St. Andrew’s, Little Rock, AR since 2005. He was consecrated as a bishop in the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda to serve the Anglican Mission in January 2008 in Dallas, TX. Philip was born in 1953 in Dallas, TX and attended the University of the South, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1976. Following graduation from law school in 1979, Philip practiced trial law in Texas. He received his Master in Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1989. Philip has a strong commitment to the authority of Scripture and has focused his ministry on the Biblical imperative to reach the world for Jesus Christ and encouraging individuals to develop as disciples of Christ. Philip is married to Claudia, and the couple has seven children. 

 

 Canon Ellis Brust is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, overseeing daily operations and management of the Anglican Mission and its Mission Center. Ordained in 1984, he has served in several parishes in Texas and in numerous diocesan and community leadership positions. Prior to joining the Anglican Mission, Ellis served as Chief Operating Officer and Chaplain to the President of the American Anglican Council, and as Canon to the Ordinary for the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, where he assisted Bishop Stephen Jecko. Canon Brust holds a Master in Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary and a bachelor’s degree from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. He is married to Cynthia, and they have two adult children, Rebecca and William.

 

 Clark Lowenfield-bio photo

 Clark Lowenfield is a fifth generation Texan who has served congregations diverse as small missions on a three hundred mile circuit in West Texas, a historic congregation in Charleston, SC., and a rapidly growing congregation in a suburb of Houston. Having consulted dozens of churches through his leadership development practice, Encourage Ministries, he also established the original credentialing office for the Anglican Mission. Clark now serves as Lead Pastor of HopePointe Church in The Woodlands, where he desires to be the remainder of his life. His wife Tricia and three daughters are the loves of his life. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of the South School of Theology.

 David Roseberry-bio photo

 David H. Roseberry is the founding rector and senior pastor of Christ Church in Plano, Texas. He arrived there in 1985 with the vision of planting a new Episcopal church for the growing community. The new church was built on the principles of lay ministry, evangelistic preaching, and small group ministry. Christ Church Plano is the most attended Anglican church in the United States. David is a graduate of the University of Arizona, and received his Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1982. He has been an ordained priest since 1983. David and his wife, Fran, have six children (including two children-in-law) and one granddaughter, and two grandsons.

David Young-bio photo

 David Young was born and raised in Arkansas. He graduated with a degree in Business and Economics from Hendrix College in 1975 and a law degree from the University of Arkansas in 1978. David has practiced law, served as a law clerk to a United States District Judge and, since 1985, has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas. David was blessed to be in the "living room group" that has grown to become St. Andrew's Church in Little Rock and was part of the First Promise movement which was instrumental in the formation of what is now known as the Anglican Mission in the Americas. He and his wife, Marilyn, have four children, two daughters-in-law and one granddaughter.