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Board Chair
As Founder and Board Chair of Unite Life, Dwayne has invested his life in fulfilling Jesus’ commission to make disciples of every tribe, tongue, and nation. With over 20 years of business experience, he worked as an entrepreneur and investor, focusing on transitioning projects from startup to scale. Dwayne’s experience collided with his passion when he and his family followed God to China in 2010 to start one of the country’s first legally licensed Christian media companies. After seeing the new project’s impact and the opportunity to scale to other countries, he and his wife launched Unite Life.
Dwayne holds a Master of Arts degree in Missiology from Regent University. He currently lives outside of Dallas, Texas, with his wife and five children.
Board Member
James J. Jensen has been called a “philanthropreneur” and serves as Managing Trustee of the Jenesis Group and ALIA Group. Both are private foundations that bring an entrepreneurial ethos and private sector funding methods into the realm of philanthropy.
Board Member
Tim Gerwing serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Red Metrics, where he leverages his 25 years of experience to innovate in the Big Data space. As one of the founders and Managing Partners, he has helped aggressively grow the company since 2015 in delivering solutions for clients in politics, non-profit, government, and commercial sectors. Tim now serves on several nonprofit Boards where he strives to see his technology and startup experience apply to Kingdom-based work at Unite Life, Streetside Showers, and The Kerusso Institute for Global Leaders. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and holds a B.S. in Industrial Management and Information and Decision Systems. Tim and his wife Amy are both natives of Pittsburgh and have been married for 27 years. They have seven children and live in Melissa, TX.
Board Member
Cherice is the Founder and Board Chair of Nameless Collaborative, an international membership community of Christian women in leadership. Cherice is an entrepreneur, co-founding several business and non-profit projects with her husband, Dwayne Stoltzfus. She is passionate about serving and connecting Christian women in leadership to collaborative communities both at home and around the world. Cherice lives in the North Dallas area with Dwayne and their five children.
Board Member
Born and raised in Sri Lanka, Alph Samuel gave his life to Jesus Christ at the age of 17. He currently serves as Head of the Pastoral Care Department at Gateway Church’s NRH Campus. Prior to that, he was Director of the Worldwide Prayer Ministry Center at Daystar Television Network, where he worked for 14 years. He is a graduate of Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, TX, where he met his wife Jane. They have been married for 17 years and live in Fort Worth, TX with their two beautiful children.
Board Member
As Senior Pastor of Trinity Fellowship, Jimmy serves on the preaching team, is the Chairman of the Board of Elders, and leads both the Executive Leadership Team and Trinity Fellowship Association of Churches. Before entering full-time ministry at Trinity Fellowship, Jimmy spent over 25 years in business, gaining extensive leadership experience through managing product development, international sales, and corporate marketing. Jimmy and Kim have been married for over 30 years and have three children.
Advisory Board Member
Jordan is a small business owner specializing in building and turning around struggling operations. He thrives on transforming business systems and processes to empower leaders and organizations to succeed. He utilizes several tools in serving organizations but leans heavily on his experience as a certified StratOp and LifePlan facilitator.
Advisory Board Member
Jeff Gowler joined Global Media Outreach in 2016 as the Chief Development Officer. In 2017, he was promoted to President by the GMO board. During his four years as President, Jeff directed the company to record growth, overseeing and leading fundraising efforts while helping to cast a vision for the future of global digital evangelism, expanding GMO’s reach to unprecedented levels. This past year alone, the Good News of Jesus Christ was shared through the power of the internet, over 168 million times, in 13 languages, with a local staff based in Texas, and over 3,500 volunteers around the world. Through Jeff’s leadership, the company has achieved two major milestones – reaching 2 billion people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and seeing 250 million people make an indicated decision to accept Jesus as their Savior. With over 35 years of strategic business development experience, and executive leadership skills, he has served in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors as well as been an entrepreneur, starting 3 companies. He and his wife, Kathy, have two children and eight grandchildren and reside in Colorado Springs, CO.
Advisory Board Member
Jonathan Shibley serves as President of Global Advance. Since 2000 he has shaped the organization’s growth and international impact. Global Advance has provided leadership training for more than 836,700 pastors, business persons, and women leaders in 104 nations. He founded the Marketplace Missions initiatives of Global Advance, which equips thousands of Christian entrepreneurs and business professionals worldwide with vision and acumen to become catalysts for fulfilling the Great Commission. He holds a Business Degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He and his wife, Sarah, have three children.
Advisory Board Member
Rashawn Copeland is the author of Start Where You Are and No Turning Back and the founder of Blessed Media and Without Walls Ministries. Founder of the largest Christian Facebook network, reaching millions daily, he is also the host of the Scripture and Stories podcast on the Converge Podcast Network. He has served alongside notable brands such as Life Church (YouVersion), the Manny Pacquiao Foundation, the Museum of the Bible, Pureflix, and many others. A graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma, he is currently earning his MDiv at Liberty University and lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, Denisse, and their four children.
Advisory Board Member
Lee Shelton, RedInk CEO, is a marketing and brand strategist with a deep love for the Church. For over a decade, he’s worked with businesses, nonprofits, and churches, helping them increase their reach on a digital landscape. Lee believes the local church is the engine God is using to reach the world. He views his role as one that helps churches tell a timeless story in a strategically timely way, all while accurately tracking and measuring the results. He and his lovely wife, Larah, live in Wylie with their three children.
Advisory Board Member
Rob Momary, Deep Space Robots CEO, is a creative developer who loves architecting engaging, interactive experiences almost as much as he loves history and space legos. If he’s not online, you can probably find him catching up on Thucydides with a cup of craft coffee or out on a mountain bike trail with his kids.
Founder
As Founder and Board Chair of Unite Life, Dwayne has invested his life in fulfilling Jesus’ commission to make disciples of every tribe, tongue, and nation. With over 20 years of business experience, he worked as an entrepreneur and investor, focusing on transitioning projects from startup to scale. Dwayne’s experience collided with his passion when he and his family followed God to China in 2010 to start one of the country’s first legally licensed Christian media companies. After seeing the new project’s impact and the opportunity to scale to other countries, he and his wife launched Unite Life.
Dwayne holds a Master of Arts degree in Missiology from Regent University. He currently lives outside of Dallas, Texas, with his wife and five children.
Vice President of Production
After spending a decade in business, pastoral ministry, and church planting Cory landed at Unite Life in 2019. His main points of focus are business development and team development. Cory’s passion is to equip others to know Christ and to help them grow as leaders. He also loves being able to help organizations and projects go from zero to one. His goal and desire is to help other businesses and ministries work to the glory of God and impact his kingdom.
Cory resides in the great nation of Texas with his bride and three children.
Vice President of Operations
Kathleen is an executive operations leader with over a decade of expertise in non-profit operations, project management, team development, and strategic execution. Prior to coming to Unite Life, she was the Director of Operations for Embrace Grace, Inc. an international non-profit, leading growth and strategic planning; helping grow the organization’s group structure by over 100% year over year. Her leadership experience spans multiple industries including brand development, non-profit, hospitality, and business development.
Kathleen’s heart beats for the broken, the outcast, and the ones who feel unworthy. Her greatest joy is serving God’s people, sharing the power of His love to transform hearts, and encouraging others to walk in the identity and freedom found only in Jesus Christ.
Director of Field Operations
Kyle is our Director of Field Operations. He is passionate about equipping and supporting our teams worldwide to further the gospel. He and his wife Sydney have three beautiful daughters.
Director of Discovery
A native Texan, David came to Jesus Christ as a college freshman. It changed his life’s direction from finance and real estate to Christian ministry. After graduating from SMU, he pursued a graduate degree from DTS with a focus on Bible Exposition. He loves seeing people come to Jesus Christ and grow in their faith through the local church.
With experience in fundraising, education consulting, business management (telecom, retail, e-commerce, and energy), and executive search, David has focused on developing a clear message of an organization and matching resources to help accomplish their mission and purpose.
David is married to Brenda, who is a 5th-grade math teacher. They have two adult children.
Connect Team Manager
Jacob joined Unite Life as our Connect Team Manager in 2021. Before moving to the great state of Texas and joining his twin brother at Unite Life, Jacob served as the youth pastor for a Foursquare church in Oregon for seven years as well as worked at a middle school as a Dean of Students. Jacob has a Bachelors degree from Oregon State in Sociology and a Masters Degree in Strategic Leadership from Life Pacific. Jacob and his wife Becca have a daughter and a son. Jacob loves all things sports and spending quality time with people.
Interim CFO/COO
Trevor currently serves as the interim Chief Finance/Operations Officer at Unite Life and has been serving at an executive level within International Missions Programs for over 3 years, focusing predominately on the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to this experience, Trevor served in Logistics, Operations, and Training Management roles throughout the Central Valley of California. Additionally, Trevor spent 8 years as a USMC Officer and has deployed throughout the Middle East on a combat deployment. Trevor has a passion for seeing the gospel powerfully transform lives for the glory of Jesus and also currently serves as an Executive Pastor at Gospel Life Church. Trevor and his wife Rachel live in Edgewood, Washington with their four children.
Trevor holds a Master of Business Administration from Colorado Christian University, a Master of Divinity From Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and holds a Project Management Professional Certification from the Project Management Institute.
Project Owner
Jordan is a Project Owner at Unite Life with experience across multiple industries. He has lived and worked in the bustle of New York City as well as the quiet hills of Northern Idaho. Much of his experience has been in marketing, creative, and project management.
Jordan is a graduate of Texas A&M University where he earned a degree in Sociology. He currently lives in North Texas with his wife and daughter.
Communications Coordinator
Tiffany has served in many leadership roles including corporate training, private vocal coaching, and owning a marketing, print, and design businesses with her husband, Christian. Her passion is to use communication to help people experience and understand the fullness of God’s love. She enjoys teaching on leadership, coaching others to help them grow to their God-given potential, and leading others to the heart of Jesus through worship. Tiffany has a theology diploma and music minor through Christ for the Nations and holds a bachelor’s degree from Dallas Baptist University in Christian Ministry and Communications. She lives in North Texas with her husband and 5 children.
India Country Coordinator
Daniel is a beloved Pastor, Teacher, and Management Trainer. He is passionate about helping people transform their lives through changes in their careers and personal lives. Passion and zeal are the biggest strengths of this dynamic leader who believes in delivering tailor-made sessions. He is crazy about playing cricket and music.
Central Asia Coordinator
Victor is the Central Asia Country Coordinator, leader of a home church, father of two girls, missionary to 10 Muslim countries, soul winner, peacemaker, team player, and writer. He is also known for his love of history, cultural anthropology, and psychology. Visited 37 countries, ex-commando.
China Coordinator
Stephen brings more than 15 years of combined software development, project management, and leadership skills to Unite Life’s team. He is able to serve partners by being a key coordinator with international teams and loves seeing solutions worked out that help get more people responding to the gospel and connected to churches.
