STAFF

Matt Simpkins

pastor

Pastor Matt serves as lead pastor at Christ South. He was born in Franklin, TN and graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a BA in Speech Communications and Organizational Development. After a stint in the corporate world, he began seminary at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC. He has served in Knoxville, TN at Faith Lutheran Church and Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta. He also served Lutheran Campus Ministry of Atlanta as pastor and lead developer. Through Redeemer and LCM, he launched House of the Rock, an alternative worshiping community and The Passion Collective a gap year program in downtown Atlanta. Pastor Matt and his wife, Pastor Melody have 3 sons and 2 daughters.