Co-Lead Pastors Laurie Fralick and Drew Fralick

Laurie has a background in organizational leadership, having served as a leader in multiple organizations large and small, both corporate and non-profit. She has extensive experience working with marginalized populations in street outreach and trauma informed recovery. She is also a gifted speaker, singer, and actor. Her passion is to activate people to reach their full potential and to seek compassionate justice for those in need.

Drew has an M.A. in Mental Health Counseling from Palo Alto University and has been a therapist for over ten years, working at an inpatient psychiatry hospital in East Asia and later at a community mental health center in metro Detroit. In addition, he is an avid reader, writer and standup comedian.

Both Laurie and Drew attended Harding University- a Bible College in Arkansas from 2002 to 2006, but never met while there! Instead, their paths crossed several years later on the other side of the world in Wuhan, China. They lived and worked in China for more than ten years and in 2018 repatriated back to the United States. Now, they have two beautiful children and have found a new home in city of Detroit.

They were in leadership at Renaissance Vineyard Church and regular members of the worship and preaching teams before becoming co-lead pastors of the church in 2022.