Interview Series with Bishop Todd Hunter
(Led by Fr. Kevin Miller)
PART 2 OF 5:
Q: You’re a lifelong Southern Californian, but you moved your home to Nashville last year, and you moved the diocesan office to Nashville this year. What do you hope these moves will do? And how do you like living in Nashville?
Bishop Todd Hunter:
We moved to an area of Nashville called Franklin. We love it here. We do not miss the “place” of Southern California at all! But we do miss family and friends. The last couple months we have been having “Zoom-Easter” and “Zoom-birthday parties” with our family and friends in California.
We moved to Tennessee for a few reasons: First, I am 64, and I hope to work another ten years, but we needed to put the finishing touches on a plan for retirement over the next decade—and there is no way we can afford to retire in coastal Orange County, CA. Second, Debbie’s brother and sister-in-law, with whom we are close, live in Franklin. Third, and I’d guess surprising to many of you, most C4SO churches are closer to Nashville than to Southern California.
So we hope the move will settle Debbie and me for the future and will settle C4SO too. C4SO is now 54 churches spread all over America, from coast to coast, in fifteen states. We have excellent, anointed, godly leaders around the country. But we need a hub that can serve the activity associated with the rapid growth of C4SO. The idea is that the Franklin hub, with me, operations, communications and finance, etc., will enable the trusted leaders and local churches to pursue fruitful ministry. I will soon announce the specifics of this new plan and the associated personnel.
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