About Us

Our Mission

Making Disciples.

Because He Lives.


Our

Beliefs

These are the eternal truths that we stand upon and let guide us through the shifting times that we live in. God’s Word is our foundation.

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Our Story

On January 10, 2021, Risen Church North became the official name of our church. However, the story of Risen started years earlier when our pastor, Sean Eppers, started feeling called to church planting in 2008. In preparation for this calling, Sean spent 2 years at The Austin Stone Community Church as a church planting resident, learning and being developed in the gospel and in church planting.

After his two year residency, Sean, desiring to continue learning and growing from other leaders, joined the staff of a 2 year old church plant where his love for the local church and the gospel continued to grow.  

Over the course of the next 6 years, through what felt like many struggles and failures, Sean began to more clearly understand the kind of church God was calling him to plant: a church of broken people with no room for selfish agendas; a church full of the kindness of God that leads us to repentance; a church where we are stumbling into green pastures and beside still waters by the providence of God; a church where the gospel is not just good advice but life giving good news!

On the first Sunday of January 2015, Sean planted this church under the name of Providence North Community Church, and for 5 years, Providence existed to glorify God by making disciples of Jesus Christ. In early 2020, though, a stirring to be a more effective gospel-furthering, church-planting, disciple-making church was rising in our leadership, and at the same time, an opportunity was presented. This opportunity was to start a collective of churches with our friends down the road at Bridgepoint that locked arms with one another in order to more effectively reach the greater Houston area with the gospel. Both churches laid down their names to take the name of Risen Church, and the Risen Collective was born.

We are now Risen Church North, and we exist to make disciples because Jesus lives.


Our Elders

SEAN EPPERS
Pastor

BRET FARRIS
Elder

DANIEL MOORE
Elder

DAVID NEUENSCHWANDER
Elder

Our Staff

MELISSA PETERSON
Kids Minister

ZACH HARRISBERGER
Worship & Students Minister

RYAN GEORGE
Connections Minister

SARA JENSEN
Kids Associate

MARK BAKER
Risen Collective Director

HENTY VAN DER MERWE
Church Planting Minister

BEN MARTINEZ
Ministry Resident