Lisa Rodriguez-Watson, for nearly two decades, has served as an urban church planter, collegiate minister, seminary professor, international missionary and community development practitioner. Her heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life, family and ministry in places and people that have often been looked over by the world.
Lisa served as co-founder of a grassroots organization in Memphis, TN that was committed to mobilizing Christians to love their undocumented neighbors, and consider an appropriate Christian response to our nation’s immigration crisis. In addition to her role as National Director of Missio Alliance, she serves as Associate Pastor of Discipleship and Equipping at Christ City Church.
“I have an incredible community that makes all the difference. I feel like if I had to do this by myself, I’d be a wreck. I would be a wreck because I know my proclivity to just work, work, work. I want to solve the problems. I want to mark things off my task list. And so I have my community that are constantly asking, ‘How are you resting? How are you? How are you keeping your body?'”