OUR VISION

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Joe Boyd – Founder, 10XChurches.com

Joe Boyd is the visionary founder of 10XChurches.com and the lead pastor of Grace Fellowship in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, which is recognized as one of America's top 100 fastest growing and most reproducing churches. Exponential identified Grace Fellowship as a level 5 Catalytic Church. A Catalytic Church is one that plants and reproduces through multiple generations of autonomous churches, fostering a disciple-making movement through church multiplication.

Under his leadership, Grace Fellowship has launched four new churches in the past six years, become debt-free, and has been acknowledged by Outreach Magazine as one of the nation's top 15 most evangelistic churches. As a passionate disciple-maker and church planter, Joe has coached leaders nationwide to think beyond mere addition and focus on multiplication. He also serves as a national coach with the Wheaton College Church Evangelism Institute, is an adjunct professor at Bethel Seminary, and is a sought-after speaker on growth through leadership, evangelism, and discipleship.

As a top 100 John Maxwell Transformational Leader, Joe's journey is characterized by intentionality—he has personally lost over 200 pounds, guided his church through significant cultural and spiritual changes, and inspires others to pursue health, freedom, and a sense of mission. He is a husband and the father of five adopted children, from both Ukraine and the U.S. Joe brings a unique combination of grit, grace, and gospel urgency to everything he undertakes.

Through 10XChurches.com, Joe leads a growing movement of leaders dedicated to reproducing disciples, leaders, and churches—10 times healthier than the conventional approach.

JOE PENROSE – Coach

Cowboy Pastor Joe Penrose is a Navy Vietnam Vet, an experienced entrepreneur and church planter joining the team of 10XChurches.com as a lead fundraiser and planter coach and mentor. He is a blessed man with a spirit-filled wife, Linda, a father, grandfather, and great grandfather to a legacy of 27 family members. He grew up in Southern Minnesota with God, country and horses. He was honored to serve the Lord teaching children’s bible study for 13 years at his local Catholic Church.

His business career started in the corporate world with Dayton/Hudson, as their sales force and installation manager in the flooring industry. Over the next 25 years he used his business management and entrepreneurial skills to create the successful Main Street Kitchen and Bath remodeling business in the Twin Cities. A multi-million-dollar flooring business, Penrose and Crane, in Minnetonka. And, a granite import company, Stone Central, with quarries in China and Italy, providing granite products to the US wholesale market for resale.

While he enjoyed these business ventures, he always felt something was missing in his life. Sure enough, one day working out in his garden, the Lord tapped him on the shoulder and said, “plant a church”. Joe dropped everything, followed his Lord, and transitioned to a new season in his life as a church planter.

Joe was ordained through the American Fellowship of Cowboy Churches (AFCC) with over 250 cowboy churches across the US and planted the first one in Minnesota. This unique niche Cowboy Church in Ham Lake, was a country western, Christian non-denominational church home where folks could “come as they are, and leave changed” in Christ. He spent the next 15 years leading the church of 150 attendees to the Lord by preaching a straightforward, bible-based, practical message of the Gospel with passion and love.

He led his church family in the Word on Sunday, inspired an incredible number of family members to attend bible study on Thursday. In addition to leading the flock spiritually, he provided oversight of business operations and guided the Board in strategic vision and direction.

This church home became was haven for the lost, a warm and welcoming environment for all who walked in the doors to experience the love of Christ and learn to grow in discipleship. It had its great days, and it had hard ones, but God would bless us thru the process. Whatever the church needed, God provided.

As part of his outreach, for six years and counting, Cowboy Pastor Joe became the voice of Transformation Sunday Radio where he continues to reach thousands over the airwaves across the Midwest and streaming across the nation with Bob Country FM 106.1 at 8 a.m. by sharing God’s Word to change their lives and behavior to become more like Christ each day.

Joe is excited to be part of this team to lead the next generation of pastoral leaders to do extraordinary things for the Lord with 10XChurches.com using his firsthand experience of being a planter to exponentially expand God’s Kingdom.

BIO LINDA PENROSE – Director of Operations

Linda Penrose started her career with an entrepreneurial spirit creating a start-up technology company, Business Basics. She parlayed this experience into consulting for failing business, with the head of St. Kate’s finance department, to reestablish a healthy business model utilizing her strengths in business organization, people management, process development and technology infrastructure,

 This expertise was applied over the next 15 years to several global industries in technology, financial advising and banking.  She successfully developed and implemented strategic business plans to deliver project services for GE Technologies as a Global Director delivering services to fortune 500 companies. She led large project teams to execute technology projects for Ameriprise Financial Advisors and Wells Fargo Bank. She also took on a real estate development dream of designing, acquiring financing and developing a $1.2 million dollar, 17 room, bed and breakfast out of train cars up in Two Harbors, MN called Northern Rail Traincar Inn.

She left the corporate world and transitioned into the non-profit world as an operations director for Wishes and More, a Minnesota make a wish foundation for kids. Then she transitioned to full-time Ministry Director, with her husband Joe, planting the Cowboy Church in Ham Lake, MN.

Over the next 15 years, with a joyful heart, she developed and provided back-office structure and systems. Created new ministries and guidelines for volunteers to serve in. Put in place fundraising events to support the church finances. Provided strategic direction as part of the board. Led the worship team in praise. Developed curriculum for and taught discipleship classes and bible studies. And, provided loving spiritual support for the 150+ church family through prayer and care with the leadership team. What an experience and journey with the Lord!

Linda is so excited to continue to use all the experience and knowledge gained through Christ from her career and planting a beautiful church home. Her expertise will help to raise up and grow disciples with the proper tools and resources that will sustain the planted church while allowing multiplication of churches exponentially for the Kingdom of God with the 10XChurches team.

The one thing she learned in her walk with the Lord while planting, watering, and growing disciples through the Cowboy Church, is in Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." It emphasizes relying on Christ's power to overcome any challenge.