Summary
The public leadership roster for Cities Church, a reformed/conservative Protestant congregation in the Twin Cities. The page lists three deacons, three deaconesses, and seven staff members. Notably, it does not list the senior pastor or elders on the fetched snapshot — only support staff and deacons are visible. The page is a Tier 1 self-description of the church’s public-facing structure and is useful primarily as an entity reference for broader reporting on the church’s role in the Minneapolis-area religious-right network.
Key Points
- Three deacons: Peter Christenson, Jon Fuehrer, Brandon Lyle (all also Community Group Leaders)
- Three deaconesses: Nancy Cole (Care), Andrea Hoglund (Women’s Discipleship Coordinator), Linda Linder (Care)
- Seven staff: Liam Craig (Worship Assistant), Ryan Deck (College and Missions), Carter Franze (Director of Operations), Mallory Kingson (Children and Families Coordinator), Sydney Stueve (Admin for Children and Families), Brandon Winship (Facilities Specialist)
- Pastoral/elder leadership not visible in this snapshot — may have been on a separate page or not yet loaded in the clipped version
- Published/archived date on the raw file: 2016-03-05 (possibly first publication of the page)
Newsletter Angles
- Religious-Right Infrastructure in the Twin Cities: Cities Church is one of the Twin Cities’ higher-profile reformed congregations. Justin’s ongoing work on “The Pastor Runs the Gestapo” and related Minneapolis-area pieces should have this entity properly tagged so future ICE-adjacent reporting and local pastoral-network reporting can cross-link to the church’s own self-description.
- Evidence Base: This is the church’s own public statement about who runs it. Any reporting that names specific pastors or elders needs the church’s own roster as a cross-check — and notably, that roster is conspicuously absent from this snapshot. Worth a follow-up fetch to capture current pastoral leadership.
Entities Mentioned
- Cities Church — the subject congregation
- Individual deacons, deaconesses, and staff listed above (may warrant their own entity pages if they appear in other sources — not created preemptively)
Concepts Mentioned
- Religious-Right Infrastructure — Twin Cities pastoral network
Quotes
(Source is a staff directory; no quoted material.)
Notes
This is a Tier 1 primary source (the church’s own site) for what the church says about itself — but only a fragment. The missing pastoral/elder listing is a substantive gap; the church presumably has senior leadership that should be visible on the full /leadership page. Recommend re-fetching to capture pastors and elders when that information becomes relevant to a specific piece. For now, the page functions as a placeholder entity reference; it should not be cited as definitive for the church’s full organizational structure.
The 2016-03-05 “published” date likely reflects the page’s original creation, not the state of leadership in 2026; staff lists on institutional pages tend to be updated silently.