Billy Patterson – City Collective Director

Billy and his wife Kelly moved to New York City in 2009 to serve as directors of City Collective, the church planting network of Trinity Grace Church. While helping build the network, they served as pastors for the Upper West Side parish. Now they are full-time leaders of the network. Before arriving in New York, Billy and Kelly served as missionaries in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and most recently, Rome, Italy. They have also given leadership on the National Team of the Worldwide Student Network of Campus Crusade for Christ developing church planting through college students. They met Jon and Christy Tyson while serving as Missions pastor at the People’s Church in Franklin, Tennessee for 8 years. Billy and Kelly have four sons: Will, Caleb, Coleman and Wesley.

Jon Tyson – Trinity Grace Church, Lead Pastor

Jon Tyson is the pastor of Trinity Grace Church in New York City. Originally from Australia, Jon moved to the United States fourteen years ago with a passion to understand and help work out the future of the Western church. He lives, works, and serves in one of the largest cultural and missionary contexts of the world— the global city. Trinity Grace has five churches in New York. Jon is also on the board of City Collective, a network of incarnational churches committed to multiplying missional church networks in the urban centers of the world. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Christy, and their two children. You can see more about their church at www.trinitygracechurch.com.