Chris Blackburn is currently the Director of the R.O.C.K. Club children's program at the Radford Worship Center.  The R.O.C.K. Club provides individualized, Christ-centered care to each child who attends the program.  Chris and his wife, Tina, are also the Children's Pastors at the Radford Worship Center.  Chris begin serving in children's ministries in 2000 as a leader in Royal Rangers and, later, serving as Pastor over Life Change JV, a pre-teen youth ministry.

Chris has a passion for young people that took flight in 2001 when he was hired by Premier, A School Specialty Company's Planning and Student Development division as a Sales Consultant to schools in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.  His consulting work helped implement programs into many schools that included "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens", "The Leader In Me" and "The Go Program" among others.  Chris specialized in teacher-focused in-services and staff development.  Twice, Chris was named to the President's Club by Premier for achieving higher than projected sales goals.

Chris has been invited on an annual basis since 2010 to be a key speaker at the Virginia Future Business Leaders of America summer conference. 

Chris's passion is to help people achieve their potential through encouragement, vision and through their faith in God.  He believes that the best way to achieve this is to be honest, but in a loving way. 

Fears take on many forms. You’ll see them at work in a CEO’s willingness to risk, a woman’s war with allergies, a boy’s lifelong insecurity, a son’s fear of losing his father, a professional’s search for peace, a young girl’s healing from years of abuses, a boy’s exchange of lost for found, a teenage girl’s transformation from unloved to loved through forgiveness, a leader’s peace found in dependency, a soldier’s victory discovered in surrender, a counselor’s change from career to calling,  a cancer carrier’s message of Hope, and a contractor’s can-do choices. In these pages, find what it takes to begin STEPPING INTO COURAGE! Chris Blackburn, along with eleven other co-authors, will lead you through their experiences of stepping into courage during difficult times. A truly inspirational read.