Staff

New Church Development Operational Team Co-Chair
Eric Bryant
Eric has served congregations in a variety of settings, including as a church planter for nine years. Before assuming his current role at Christ Church, he spent three years as director of New Church Development. Before that, Eric served as senior pastor at St. Matthews UMC in Louisville, which became a multisite church during his tenure.
Eric has a passion to reach the lost for Jesus Christ and to see the church renew, grow and become all God desires it to be.
Eric and his wife, Kathy, have three grown children and two grandchildren. With his free time, Eric enjoys being outside – mostly training for Ironman Triathlons! He also loves spending time with his wife and family.


New Church Development Operational Team Co-Chair
Adam Sparks
Rev. Adam Sparks, the senior pastor at St. Matthews UMC in Louisville, is a native of Salyersville in Eastern Kentucky. He and his wife, Melanie, met at the Wesley Foundation at Morehead State University, where they both graduated.
Adam has a B.S. in Psychology from Morehead State (2005) and an M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary (2009). Melanie is the choir director at Bullitt Central High School. Adam and Melanie have two sons, Noah and John, and two dogs Lola and Tucker.
Besides St. Matthews, Adam has served congregations at Bethel/Mt. Pleasant, Owingsville, Sunshine in South Shore, and College Heights in Elizabethtown. He enjoys cycling, hiking, cooking, University of Kentucky basketball, listening to NPR, and going on adventures as a family.

Ministry Assistant of New Church Development
Alan Wild
Alan is a native of Huntington, W.Va., and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Ohio University. He is a member of St. Matthews UMC, where he is active in choir and on various church teams. He enjoys exercising, college football and basketball, reading, and working around the house and yard. He has a grown daughter, Elizabeth.