In 2005 Vermon Pierre became one of the founding pastors and the lead pastor/elder at Roosevelt Community Church. He is the author of Gospel Shaped Living, and a contributor to The New City Catechism Devotional, 15 Things Seminary Couldn't Teach Me, and Revisiting 'Faithful Presence': To Change the World Five Years Later. His most recent book is Dearly Beloved: How God's Love for His Church Deepens Our Love for Each Other. 


Vermon is a Princeton University graduate and has a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He and his wife Dennae live in downtown Phoenix and have five children.