Bart Campolo is a veteran urban minister and activist who speaks and writes about grace, faith, loving relationships and social justice.  Bart is the leader of The Walnut Hills Fellowship, a local ministry in inner city Cincinnati.  He is also founder of Mission Year, a Christian ministry which recruits committed young adults to live and work among the poor in inner-city neighborhoods across the country, and executive director of EAPE, which develops and supports innovative, cost-effective mission projects around the world. 

Born and raised in suburban Philadelphia, Bart graduated from Brown University in 1985. From 1986-1989 he worked with young people in South Minneapolis, where he met and married his wife, Marty. In 1989 Bart and Marty moved to West Philadelphia to found Kingdomworks, the urban ministry which later became Mission Year, and to begin raising their children, Miranda and Roman, who are now teenagers.

In 2005, after nearly two decades of organizational leadership, the Campolo family moved from Philadelphia to the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, hoping to love their neighbors in a more personal way as part of an inner-city faith community. News of the Walnut Hills Fellowship can be found online at thewalnuthillsfellowship.org and Bart’s popular and provocative blog, can be found at http://www.bartcampolosblog.com/.

(Preferred Platform Introduction: Bart Campolo is a veteran urban minister from Philadelphia who now speaks, writes, and loves his neighbors in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati. A graduate of Brown University, Bart is married, has two teenaged children, and very much likes to communicate.)