Lisa Rodriguez Watson
Associate Pastor
Lisa (she/her) serves as Associate Pastor at Christ City Church. She has served as an urban church planter, collegiate minister, seminary professor, international missionary, and community development practitioner for nearly two decades. Her heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life, family, and ministry in places and people that have often been looked over by the world.
Lisa served as co-founder of a grassroots organization in Memphis, TN that was committed to mobilizing Christians to love their undocumented neighbors and consider an appropriate Christian response to our nation’s immigration crisis. In addition to her role at Christ City, Lisa serves as National Director of Missio Alliance, a convictional fellowship of Christian institutions, churches, & leaders committed to exploring & engaging faithfulness in God's mission after Christendom.
Educated at Florida International University and Golden Gate Seminary, she now lives in SE DC where she is a mom to 3 fantastic children, Nathan, Elias, and Annelies, and a wife to her best friend Matthew.