Neil joined Cochran Chapel UMC to walk alongside the congregation as they discern a new vision for their ministry for the next century. Neil will be out and about in the neighborhood, meeting folks with whom Cochran Chapel might find mission alignment and renewed energy to
live the Gospel in our city. He continues to work with Partners for Sacred Places, based in Philadelphia, to bring their expertise in preservation, community engagement, and capital campaigning to congregations in Texas. Neil also works with numerous congregations through a
new business, Church Cartographers, to find new hope and life in their mission fields.
Prior to joining forces with Cochran Chapel, Neil was Director of Community Engagement for White Rock UMC and the Owenwood Farm & Neighbor Space, which have become models of innovation in urban church revitalization. Neil (along with Rev. Mitchell Boone & Victoria Sun-Esparza) took the Owenwood Farm Neighbor Space through a learning cohort for spiritual innovation created by Columbia University Business School and the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL). Prior to White Rock UMC, Neil worked in more traditional youth, global missions, and adult ministry roles at Highland Park UMC and University Park UMC in Dallas.
Neil spends most of his time with his better fifteen/sixteenths, Rev. Elizabeth Moseley, and their three kids: Nathaniel, Evangeline, and Josephine. Neil likes to drink coffee, hike, discuss politics, see live music, travel, and collect old baseball cards and first-edition books. Neil’s favorite baseball cards in his collection are a 1909-11 T206 Walter Johnson (portrait) and a 1933 Goudey Mel Ott (portrait), and his favorite authors are John Steinbeck, Nick Hornby, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Neil is a cofounder of Union Coffee House, and has loved participating in numerous boards and committees, including: QuadW Foundation – Board Member; Genesis Women’s Shelter – Faith Coalition; Wesley-Rankin Community Center – Strategic Planning Committee; Texas Methodist Foundation – President’s Advisory Committee, Legacy Church National Team, and is a co-facilitator of the Edge Cohort of TMF’s Courageous Leadership Imperative.
Neil received a B.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Theological Studies from Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology.
