Christina Embree

Christina Embree has been making room for kids in the church—and occasionally cleaning up the glitter they leave behind—since 2011. Her children’s ministry experience includes helping plant a church in 2017, building children’s and family ministry from the ground up, and since 2020, coaching churches and ministry leaders across denominations as the founder and director of ReFocus Ministry. Christina holds a Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Formation with a focus on age segregation and intergenerational ministry, as well as a master’s degree in Children, Youth, and Family Ministry. She speaks, teaches, and writes on children’s ministry, family ministry, intergenerational discipleship, and creating churches where children are known, loved, and formed as full members of the faith community. She is the author of Intergenerational by Design (David C Cook, January 2027) and serves as NextGen Pastor at Open Door Church in Lexington, Kentucky.