Grant Edwards

Pastor Grant Edwards served as Senior Pastor of Fellowship Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, for 49 years.

His ministry began during the Jesus Movement during the early 1970s when he led a group of newly converted, scraggly, non-conforming hippies to start a ministry called the One Way House. This ministry grew into Fellowship Christian Church.

Over the past decades, Grant has traveled internationally over 90 times and throughout the USA, teaching First Steps Conversations and other materials. His interest in discipleship began when he realized that 80 percent of those accepting Jesus walked away from faithfulness soon after conversion. His book, First Steps Conversations, is a 49-year researched and practiced one-to-one discipleship plan that reverses this trend.

Grant writes a six-days-per-week blog called Interruptions that focuses on grace, following Jesus, and practices for living with peace, power, and provision in difficult times.

Focusing on training in discipleship and writing blogs, Grant is now following a call from God to be a "good steward of the teaching material" that God has given to him.

Grant has written several books including Swimming Lessons: How To Keep New Christians Afloat In A Sinking World; Passing the Baton: Guide Your Child to Follow Jesus; Praying Lessons; First Steps Conversations, a one-to-one discipleship manual; Leaper, Spanner, Paver; and Interruptions, Book 1. His newest book is Discipleship That Works: The LampPost Strategy for Disciplemaking.

Grant has been married to his wife Barbara since 1977 and they have three children and six grandchildren. He often says, "I am more in love today with my wife than when I first married her." Together they work on the writing and graphics of his teaching material. They live in Springfield, Ohio.