Vance Pitman

Vance Pitman is a pastor, church planter, and leadership coach with a lifelong passion for seeing spiritually healthy leaders multiply disciples, churches, and gospel impact. In 2000, Vance responded to God’s call to plant a church in Las Vegas, Nevada, sent from First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Georgia, with a vision to join in God’s redemptive work both locally and globally.

By God’s grace, that vision became Hope Church, launched in the fall of 2001 with a small group of eighteen adults meeting in a living room. Over the next two decades, Hope Church grew into a thriving, multi-ethnic, multi-generational fellowship of more than 4,000 people, representing 54 languages. Under Vance’s leadership, Hope embraced the conviction that what God is doing is always bigger than one local church, sending hundreds on mission, investing millions in God’s global work, and commissioning more than 75 churches throughout the western United States.

Following his season at Hope, Vance served as President of Send Network, the largest church planting organization in North America. During more than four years of leadership, he helped clarify and strengthen Send Network’s vision, mission, values, and strategy—leaving the organization more focused, aligned, and prepared for the future.

In this next season, Vance will continue to champion the work of church planting through a contracted role with the North American Mission Board while launching a preaching, coaching, and consulting ministry. Through this work, he desires to pour into leaders, strengthen churches, and inspire everyday Jesus followers to join in God’s activity. While his role with Send Network has shifted, Vance continues to partner closely with its mission—now from a different seat—as he steps into this new Kingdom assignment.

Vance holds a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in business management from the University of North Alabama and a Master of Divinity from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kristie, live in Georgia and are grateful parents of four children and grandparents to five grandchildren, with one more on the way.