Pastor Steve Stafford

Pastor Steve Stafford is the founding Pastor at Risen Ranch Cowboy Church, which became a church plant in March of 2006, in Carthage Mo. He has served in ministry in the Cowboy culture for the past 30 years. First with Cowboys for Christ, and then in Rodeo Cowboy Ministries traveling over the Midwest, preaching at rodeos, horse shows, country fairs, clinics, ranches, big and small churches, trail rides, or wherever he was invited. He became a church planter in 2006, with the intent of starting Cowboy churches wherever he could. He has helped in some way start cowboy churches in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, Hawaii, and Oklahoma. He was inducted into the Better Horses Hall of Fame in 2014, honoring a lifetime of serving the horse & livestock industry in ministry. He is a contributing writer for Better Horses Magazine, is on the Better Horses Radio Show weekly, and a contributor for Better Horses Television.