Jonathan Parnell is the lead pastor of Cities Church in Minneapolis–Saint Paul — a church he and his team planted in 2015. He is Send Network’s Send City Missionary in the Twin Cities, where he also serves as a church-planting trainer. He is the author of Mercy for Today: A Daily Prayer from Psalm 51 (2020), Never Settle for Normal: The Proven Path to Significance and Happiness (2017) and coauthor of How to Stay Christian in Seminary (2014). He and his wife Melissa live in the Twin Cities with their eight children.
