Lead Pastor
The Connecting Grounds
Christie Love has a heart for serving north Springfield, Missouri, and for the local church. She is lead pastor at The Connecting Grounds. Through The Connecting Grounds, Love works passionately to meet some of the practical needs of the community, including a safe place for foster kids and their biological parents to visit, free meals and an evening warming shelter on nights that the overnight crisis cold weather shelters are open in Springfield. The Connecting Grounds also hosts rehearsals for Springfield Street Choir.
Previously, Love founded and was executive director of LeadHer, a women’s ministry that encouraged and equipped women to affect the world around them through Christ. She was also director of marketing at Jennifer Rothschild, Inc., and the owner of a small business, Simple Organized Sanity.
She has a master’s degree in practical theology from Regent University and is the chair of the Religious Affairs Committee for the Springfield, Missouri, chapter of the NAACP. She was named one of John Maxwell’s Top 100 Leaders in 2016.