Meet Our Team

  Geoff and Pam Hsu are walking alongside churches, ministries and denominations that are wrestling with how to transform our communities and cities in the new and vastly different world we live in today. Their journey is in conjunction with Church Resource Ministries (CRM), which exists to help develop missional leadership for the church. In San Diego, CRM's efforts are oriented to help the whole church bring the whole gospel to the whole city. Particular attention is focused on catalyzing emerging leadership for the next generation.

Geoff is currently the team leader of Urban Mosaic and holds a MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with an informal emphasis on Missions. He also completed his Doctor of Ministry degree from Bakke Graduate University. Geoff and Pam have been involved in ministry to both university students as well as professionals in the United States as well as throughout East Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. 

Current efforts include:
•    Spiritual Formation Small Group - Using the materials of Dallas Willard to provoke our paradigms of discipleship, this group is encouraging each other to a deep level of spiritual maturity though accountability in spiritual disciplines.
•    San Diego Presbytery Vision Task Force - Geoff is helping the San Diego Presbytery (PCUSA) increase its missional capacity through various initiatives including the hosting a learning community of innovators within our denomination.
•    Missional Leadership Training entity - In partnership with several different ministries within the city, Geoff is helping develop an educational entity that will employ an apprenticeship model toward developing missional leaders for the church in San Diego.
•    U40 - This network of emerging leaders of the church in San Diego is an attempt to reimagine how the body of Christ might together work for spiritual and societal transformation of the greater metropolitan San Diego/Tijuana area.

Craig Hendrickson. Craig is the founder of Urban Mosaic and served as its team leader from 2006 to 2010. His passion is coaching pastors as they attempt to lead their churches into effective missional engagement in ethnically diverse urban areas. His ultimate vision is to help facilitate a movement of multiethnic churches in every major city in North America. His professional and ministry experience includes six years as a pastor in Long Beach, CA and Vancouver, B.C.; four years as the Singles Minister at Mt. Calvary Christian Center, an African-American church in the inner-city of Seattle, WA; two years as a human relations trainer with the Los Angeles City Fire Department; and eleven years as a player in the Canadian Football League, where he also served as a team chapel leader for nine years and as the National Player Representative with Athletes in Action for four years.
     Craig received his MDiv from Regent College, and his ThM in Missiology at the Fuller School of Intercultural Studies. He is currently working on his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Craig and his wife Mary have a daughter named Amaya.

Specialization Areas: Multiethnic Ministry, Urban and Multiethnic Leadership Development, Racial Reconciliation, Strategic Planning, Organizational Assessment and Change, Church Interventions, and Intentional Interims.

Steve Scharf served as an inner-city missionary with InnerChange for 10 years in downtown Los Angeles. His efforts focused on church planting and mentoring pastors and lay leaders among Spanish-speaking churches. He also worked to catalyze multiethnic networks of pastors. A sabbatical in 1999 led Steve to research holistic ministries among the poor in South America, which culminated in the completion of his MA in Inter-Cultural Studies at Fuller Seminary. For three years Steve helped pioneer a new InnerChange team in Venezuela which plants house churches in the impoverished hillside slums of Caracas. As in L.A., Steve helped catalyze a pastor's network and mentored young Christians for mission in poor neighborhoods. Today, Steve lives with his wife Sandy in Alhambra and is focused on coaching ethnic pastors and leaders in Southern California to missionally engage their communities.

Charlie Johnson has served with CRM since July of 2003. He comes from a music and manufacturing background and moved into mission, so he likes to joke about being “the 3M guy.” For 4 years, Charlie served CRM as recruiting and mobilization Director. He was then recruited into a role with the US Ministries team. He has been deeply involved in worship arts ministry and a plethora of other roles in local churches. Having recently landed on the Urban Mosaic team, Charlie brings a passion for the unchurched and dechurched segments of urbanized western culture. He is currently working towards an MA in Global Leadership (MAGL) from Fuller Seminary and is planning his Master thesis to incorporate themes of Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Health and Missional influence. He is married to Griselda, who originally hails from El Salvador. They are expecting their first child in June of 2009.  

Neil Tibbott serves as a coach and equipper for church planting leaders and movements in his role with CRM in the U.S. and various parts of world. His current projects include forming Church Planter Networks and developing Missional Church Planting projects in and around the Pacific Northwest, where experimentation is alive and well. Previously, he served on staff with New Song Church in San Dimas, California developing leaders for small groups and new church projects. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University in Seattle with an emphasis in Community Development. Ministries include Church Planter networks, Coaching, and Equipping.  Neil is a part-time Faculty member at the Bakke Graduate University (www.bgu.edu), which offers leaders an opportunity to gain academic credit for church multiplication and missions.

Neil lives in Seattle, Washington. For fun, he watches over four kids with his wife Margaret while taking laps around “the Sound” for soccer practice, skateboard parks, art festivals, camping trips and stops at the local coffee hangouts.
 

Laura Lee caught God’s vision for racial reconciliation as a college student, which shifted her course of study into ethnic identity and urban policy and led to extensive work in non-profit organizations. She gained experience in youth empowerment, economic development, sexual and domestic abuse prevention, food programs, immigrant aid and advocacy. Laura also directed 7-week summer projects in urban settlements in Mexico City and Lima for InterVarsity college students.

Joining Urban Mosaic in 2009, she sought to integrate a commitment to justice with her deep concern and hope for the body of Christ, while also drawing on a passion for connecting and nurturing leaders. Thinking creatively and offering support through training, counsel and prayer, Laura’s goal is to empower individuals and groups to work for the transformation of their city into a place where justice really does roll like a river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream. She is in cahoots with Geoff in San Diego, CA.