Stu Batstone is the team leader for the discipling ministry of World Harvest Mission (WHM) near Philadelphia. He mentors church planters, pastors, missionaries, and leaders as well as their spouses through the year-long Sonship discipleship curriculum. With his wife, Ruth Ann, he leads seminars monthly for WHM on Cultivating a Gospel Centered Marriage, Cultivating Gospel Transformation of our Heart, and Cultivating Gospel Centered Parenting. Stu and Ruth Ann have ministered in several countries overseas as well as in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Stu is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and was a founding board member of CityNet, a Philadelphia focused church planting network. He has an MA and an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

Stu and Ruth Ann helped plant New Life Church at Five Points where they have been actively serving since 1983. They have been married for 44 years and have four married children – and so far they have eleven grandkids. They love to travel, bike ride, snorkel and vacation on Cape Cod.