Meet the 360 Pastor Team

David Clark

David brings a lifetime of experience as a professor, author, pastor, and university leader to his role as 360 Pastor’s founder. He has published extensively the areas of theology, ethics, and apologetics. His most notable book is To Know and Love God. David spent three decades serving in different roles at Bethel University in St Paul, MN, including a season as University Provost. He also invested eight years as a pastor. David leads 360 Pastor as a capstone to a lifetime of ministry service. He and Sandy live in Stillwater, MN.

Brad Mateer

Brad is a lifelong Christian leader who studied the Bible and leadership in college and graduate school, and then built a real estate business as a Christian layman. He and his family attend Eagle Brook Church. He serves as a member of the Board at Anselm House, the Christian Study Center at the University of Minnesota. He led them to acquire and develop a strategic ministry location at the heart of the university. He and his wife, Val, live in Blaine, MN.

Rick Stapleton

Rick is a faithful Minnesota sports fan who pastored three small-town churches, leading them to missional revitalization. In his last ministry at CrossPoint Church in Hutchinson, MN, and in collaboration with its members, Rick led a cultural renewal that resulted in hundreds coming to new faith in Jesus Christ and growing up as Jesus’ disciples. Rick thoroughly enjoys coaching pastors to develop a holistic, biblical vision for personal, relational, and leadership growth for lasting impact. He lives with his wife, Marcy, in Eagan, MN.

Eric Bryant

Eric serves as Campus Pastor of Gateway Church South Austin, which has been a campus planting campus. Before that, in the mid-1990s, he was part of a church planting team in Seattle, and then he served with Erwin McManus at Mosaic in Los Angeles for 12 years. He earned his doctorate in ministry in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Bethel Seminary. He is the author of Not Like Me: Loving, Serving, Influencing Our Divided World and Fruitful: Becoming Who God Created You To Be. He and his wife, Deborah, live in Austin, TX.