Glenn Barth

Current

• President at GoodCities

Past

• President of the Leadership Division at Tentmakers
• Founding COO and National Facilitator at Mission America Coalition

Education

• Bakke Graduate University
• Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
• Denison University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Company

Glenn Barth’s Summary

Glenn Barth is the President of GoodCities. He is an effective leader and communicator with a doctorate in Transformational Leadership and is a certified trainer of facilitators for Results-Based Conversations through the Wild Works Group.

GoodCities helps city leaders combine the good deeds and good news of the gospel into the life of the city to bring about kingdom transformation. It serves kingdom-minded leaders through leadership development aimed at collaborative volunteer mobilization addressing areas of need in their city.

Glenn has served as the founding COO and National Facilitator of City/Community Ministries with the Mission America Coalition where he guided the development of the Loving Our Communities to Christ initiative. Most recently, Glenn served as President of the Leadership Division of Tentmakers. As a pastor, he has served churches in Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota.

City transformation has been central to his ministry beginning in the mid-1970s. He helps pastors and Christian leaders around the world engage in effective communitywide outreach. He served in leadership roles with numerous national evangelistic outreaches including The Lighthouse Movement and September 11 Remembrance Services. He served as a consultant for distribution and marketing of The Passion of the Christ and Disney’s Chronicles of Narnia.

His personal mission is “to mobilize the church in cities and communities for the transformation of lives and institutions under the Lordship of Jesus Christ by identifying, connecting and resourcing church leaders.” He has served on the US Lausanne Committee, the Mission America Committee and the National Prayer Committee. He is a founder of the City Impact Roundtable and co-founder of the Christian Emergency Network.

Glenn Barth’s Specialties:

Leadership Coaching, Results-based and Participant-focused Leadership Training, Consulting for Churches, Ministries and Businesses

Glenn Barth’s Experience

• President

  GoodCities

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  GoodCities connects and resources city leaders who serve and transform their city. Our mission is to help city leaders combine the good deeds and good news of the gospel into the life of the city to bring about kingdom transformation. GoodCities serves kingdom minded leaders through leadership development aimed at collaborative volunteer mobilization addressing areas of need in their city.
  Our Three Services are:
  1. GoodCities Leadership Communites
  2. GoodCities Leadership Coaching
  3. GoodCities Resource Specialists

• President of the Leadership Division

  Tentmakers

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  September 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  Provided training and coaching services to pastors and ministry leaders. Worked on community recovery on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina coordinating aid and mobilizing volunteers in the immediate aftermath.

• Founding COO and National Facilitator

  Mission America Coalition

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  March 1996 — August 2005 (9 years 6 months)

  This coalition of 81 denominational presidents and 350 ministry executives is a ministry of the U.S. Lausanne Committee. Its mission is "The whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole nation and to the world." In my role as National Facilitator for City/Community Ministries I worked with leaders in 165 operating city movements nationwide and spearheaded eight national initiatives.

Glenn Barth’s Education

• Bakke Graduate University

  DMin , Transforming the Global City , 2001 — 2008

• Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary

  MDiv , Old Testament/Theology , 1980 — 1984

  Christian Thought Award: Outstanding Student in Theological Studies
  John Tate Memorial Award for Outstanding Potential in the Pastorate

  Activities and Societies:

  Worked at Varian Associates in Beverly, MA and led a Friday night Theology Discussion Group.

• Denison University

  BA , History , 1973 — 1977

  Activities and Societies:

  Soccer, Phi Delta Theta, Koinonia

Additional Information

Glenn Barth’s Websites:

• My Company

Glenn Barth’s Interests:

Golf, Fly Fishing, Reading, Exercise

Glenn Barth’s Groups:

Hazeltine National Golf Club, City Impact Roundtable, Minnesota State Council of Trout Unlimited, Nice Shots Golf Club, Mission America Coalition, National Prayer Committee

Glenn Barth’s Honors:

Outstanding Young Men of America 1987-1990, Outstanding Student in Theological Studies and John Tate Memorial Award Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 1984

Glenn Barth’s Contact Settings

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