Rick Shrout

Rick Shrout was born in Marion, Indiana in 1958 and grew up in Portland, Oregon. His work experience includes ministry in Native American communities of the Navajo, Lakota Sioux, and Crow, as well as serving as a pastor of cell groups, church planter, house church networker, public educator, and fly fishing guide He is a contributing author of "Nexus: The World House Church Movement Reader" (2007), has a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership in the Emerging Culture from George Fox University, and is an ordained minister with the Church of God (Anderson, IN). His latest book released in Sept of 2019, "Love Your Guts Out: I Lost My Wife, but Not My Inspiration." He presently travels on the road as a type of "itinerant minister" (uttermostroad.com) and is available for guest speaking engagements. For leisure, Rick enjoys fly fishing and hiking.