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Leadership Team

  • Colby Henley

    Community Coordinator

  • Andy Littleton

    Leadership Coach / Director Of Development

  • Kristin Tovar

    Founder Advisory Team

  • Zach Yentzer

    Founder Advisory Team

  • Cruz Menchaca

    Young Adult Steering Team

    Cruz is a student who loves to see gospel truths translated into the lives of his friends. He is currently a ministry intern with an emphasis in evangelism and community engagement at Mission Church in Tucson, AZ and serves on an emerging adult team for the Christian Reformed Church.

  • Dani Alkola

    Young Adult Steering Team

    Dani is an event coordinator for the city of Tucson, where she is able to use her combination of communication and creative giftings. She attends Mission Church and continues to seek her own pathway as a young leader in the community.

  • Thomas Duell

    Thomas is in the early stages of church planting in partnership with Mission Church’s co-pastor and is a successful real estate agent. Thomas has spent time as a highly dedicated volunteer and long-time member in good standing at Desert Son Church in Northwest Tucson. His dad is a business owner and long time elder, and taught Thomas the basics of running a business before Thomas and his wife Stephie branched out on their own.

Toolkit for Churches

One of the missing elements in the retention of leaders with non-traditional ideas is the lack of simple affirmation. Pastors and missionaries tend to receive the majority of affirmation in the church, followed by elders and para-church ministry leaders, and lastly deacons. Few churches understand the power of affirming the missional work of the people in their congregations.

People with non-traditional ideas become accustomed to the look of confusion on a church leaders face, or hearing the words “well, we can’t really help you do that, but we can pray for you.” This toolkit is aimed to give general directives and encouragements, as well as a well-designed certificate that churches could use or build upon in order to affirm and encourage their people with missional ideas.

The toolkit is designed to be fairly elastic. It applies to churches who might want to place such people on a path toward formal ordination to an office such as elder or deacon, through which they might lead their initiative, as well as to churches that might simply create something of another missionary classification within their church for such leaders. It includes different paths a church might take as well as some helpful practices through which these leaders may be affirmed and recognized.