Northwest Hills UMC

Chris Baxter has previously worked at St. Matthew's UMC and Windcrest UMC. He is married to Marie and they have two boys born on the same day, 5 years apart. Before becoming a United Methodist youth director, he was a house parent with his wife at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch in the Texas panhandle. They spent six years at the group home facility serving as parental units for up to 14 teenage boys in a home setting.

 

He was a sports writer at the Ventura County Star in southern California for four years in the early 1990s where he covered professional and high school sports. He was born and raised in Tulsa, OK where he developed a love for things crimson and hatred for things burnt orange. (Read that: OU and Texas.)

 

He loves talking about Jesus with youth, adults, children, whoever and loves reading God's Word. He also loves playing sports and watching the Sooners, Steelers, Yankees and Spurs.