Who We Are

Alan was on staff at Life.Church for almost 10 years, serving primarily as the Church Online Pastor. Life.Church is based in Oklahoma, United States, and is a multi-site church that founded the YouVersion Bible App. Life.Church Online was founded in 2006 and today reaches people from countries all over the world through nearly 100 digital church services weekly, led by a global volunteer team from over 55 different countries. Currently, Alan partners with churches and leaders to help them identify how they can leverage technology to further the Gospel and reach people like never before - one of his greatest passions.

Amber Smart is the founder of SmartMetrix, dedicated to assisting organizations and professionals seeking to unlock the potential of their data. A Tableau Certified Professional with a portfolio encompassing over 4,000 dashboards, Amber has earned recognition as a Tableau Ambassador. Notably, she spearheaded the data strategy for one of the largest mission-based organizations in the U.S.

SmartMetrix caters to a diverse clientele across various industries, ranging from dairy farmers to bankers. Amber finds fulfillment in sharing her expertise in data and measurements with leaders who share a similar passion for their organizations.

Beyond the world of data, Amber harbors a love for baked goods and, perhaps reluctantly, reminisces about the time she lip-synced The Thong Song in front of a crowd of 500. When not simplifying the complex, she enjoys facetiming with her grandbabies.

Brian is the founding and senior pastor of Crossroads Church. He has authored four books including his best-seller, The Five Marks of a Man. He also hosts “The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome”, a weekly podcast that has surpassed one million downloads. As an entrepreneur, Brian has opened several other non-profits and started Man Camp, a primitive weekend camping experience that has helped tens of thousands of men reclaim the code of manhood. An avid hunter and adventure motorcyclist, Brian is married with three children and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dan Reiland is a coach, consultant, author, teacher, husband, father and grandfather. He brings decades of local church executive leadership experience to his current ministry endeavors that focus on helping leaders excel.

Dan currently serves on the lead team, church board and is Executive Director of Leadership Expansion at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia where he served for 20 years as the Executive Pastor. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at Maxwell Leadership (Previously INJOY).

Dan is best known as a leader with a pastor’s heart and a coach’s intuition. He truly loves the local church and is considered one of the nation’s most insightful executive leadership coaches and church consultants, bringing wisdom and experience to the process. Dan has written 4 books on the church and church leadership and writes a weekly blog at danreiland.com.

Dan and his wife Patti have two children, a son-in-law, and one granddaughter. In his leisure time, he’s a collector of really cool guitars! If you are curious, you can check them out here!

Darin has been on staff at Crossroads Community Church for 21 years and has served as the Executive Pastor for the past 19 years. He currently serves on the Board of Spiritual Directors for Crossroads Church as well as the Board of Directors for Undivided, a racial solidarity movement. Prior to working at Crossroads, Darin spent 16 years in corporate business including 8 years in brand management for “Crest” at Procter & Gamble. He has a BS in Management and Marketing from Georgia Tech and an MBA in Finance, Statistics, and Accounting from the University of Chicago. Darin has been married for 33 years to his wife Pamela and they have 2 children, Tommy 27 years old and Maya 24. Tommy and his wife Tristine also recently made Darin a grandfather with newborn Jonah.

David Dummitt is the Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. He is an innovative, entrepreneurial pastor and leader with a strong passion for helping people take the first and next steps with God. He is known for his collaborative leadership style, ability to build strong teams, and future-focused missional-facility development.

Before his role at Willow, Dave served as the Founding and Lead Pastor of 2|42 Community Church, ranked by Outreach Magazine for seven years in a row as one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in America. Under Dave’s leadership, 2|42 grew from a 40-member launch team meeting in Dave’s living room to over 10,000 people meeting at seven different campuses each weekend.  2|42 was built as a church committed to community outreach and radical generosity and is nationally known for award-winning public community centers comprised of indoor sports and fitness facilities, cafes, playscapes for kids, and a school for the arts.   

Dave has significant experience navigating the complexities of expansion and growth in ministries of all types and sizes and has a strong understanding of missional facility development and leadership strategy. He previously served as the North American Regional Director for NewThing, a global church-planting network. Under Dave’s leadership, 2|42 helped to plant over 30 churches. 
Dave is skilled at developing compelling missional facilities and equipping church leaders to maximize their impact through community engagement. Dave also helps leaders grow and multiply healthy teams, cultivate great culture, and develop strong systems that support growing churches. 

Dave has led 2|42 through several generosity campaigns, totaling more than 33 million dollars. His business savvy combined with his pastoral leadership allowed him to serve on the board of the Solomon Foundation, the fastest-growing church extension fund in history, with assets totaling over 500 million dollars in seven years. Additionally, Dave partnered with two gifted technology developers to create GYVE, an innovative generosity development tool for churches and nonprofits.  

Dave holds a BA in Bible and Theology from Wheaton College. He and his wife, Rachel, reside in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and have four children. 

Glen is the Executive Pastor at Chase Oaks Church in Plano, Texas. He has been at Chase Oaks for 25 years and is gifted in organizational leadership - bringing teams and strategies together to build momentum. Glen is a coach for the Irresistible Church Network and serves on the board of Orphan Outreach. He and his wife Julie love spending time with family, cheering on the Purdue Boilermakers, and serving in their community through Chase Oaks.

Glenn Wood is the Pastor of Administration for Seacoast Church where he has served since 1995. Seacoast is a multisite non-denominational church with 14 campuses across South and North Carolina. He oversees church administration, legal work, campus leases, site selection, campus design, politics, forecasting, construction projects, capital projects, bank relationships, and coordinates the works with the IT/AV departments work in campuses. He has a passion for working with data, data analytics, and operations. 

His background includes retail store management, operations, logistics, construction, facility management, and management of sales teams. His work at Seacoast started when the church was one location and had weekend attendance of about 600. Currently the church has an average of 15,000 weekend attenders across all campuses. He is also the liaison for the Board of Trustees and works with them in carrying out the directives and coordinating compilation of data for their meetings. 

He oversees all construction projects for Seacoast including the recent addition of a 2,500 seat sanctuary that opened in 2019 in Mt Pleasant, SC. Projects have ranged in size from $2,000 to $30,000,000. He is involved in all phases of project development, budgeting, design, execution, and facility commissioning. 

Glenn works with the Church Network and heads up the Metro Network which is a group of roughly 400 churches across the US and Canada of congregations of 2,000 weekly attenders and up. He collaborates with Church Administrators, Executive Pastors and Operations Pastors across the country to share ideas, policies, and assist with operational questions.

He speaks at churches and at national conferences on topics including church operations, Working From Home, teaching Microsoft Excel classes, construction projects, and other topics. 

Basically, he does what no one else wants to do!

Kyle Ranson is a pastor and leader of creative product development with over 15 years of experience building and leading highly innovative and effective teams. For the past decade, he has served on the executive leadership team at Crossroads Church overseeing physical and digital experiences for all ages, software development, social media and marketing, content creation, and generosity. In his time serving, Crossroads has twice been named the Fastest Growing church in America and has recently seen its online church experience tremendous growth.

Larry was born and raised in Southern California. During his tenure as the lead pastor at North Coast Church in San Diego, he oversaw its growth from a small church plant with 70 adults to one of the largest and most influential churches in the country (with 8 local campuses, and a weekend physical attendance exceeding 13,000). 

Larry is responsible for numerous innovative ministry strategies that have been widely adopted by the church at large; including the use of Teaching Teams, Sermon-Based Small Groups, and Video Venues, which spawned the modern Multisite movement. 

He is the author of 10 books, including Sticky Church, Sticky Teams, Lead Like A Shepherd, Accidental Pharisees, and Thriving in Babylon. 

He currently serves as a Kingdom Ambassador and a Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church, focusing on mentoring and coaching high-performance pastors, leaders, and churches, along with various church planting movements. His clients have included 19 of the 100 Largest Churches and 22 of the Fastest Growing Churches in the most recent Outreach 100 compilations. 

Larry has both a Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry degree from Talbot Theological Seminary. He and his wife Nancy live in Oceanside, CA, and are blessed to have all three of their grown and married children living nearby along with their eight grandchildren.

Called to pastor Lakepointe shortly after its founding in 1979, Steve led the congregation that has grown from 53 in attendance at its inception to more than 13,000 each week at 8 Dallas campuses. After 40 years, Steve transitioned to a supportive role at Lakepointe and provides coaching to partnership churches throughout the world. He has a passion for seeing the Gospel presented to unchurched people in a culturally relevant style without compromising truth.

Under his leadership, Lakepointe has started 70 churches in under-churched areas across America such as Boston, New York, Las Vegas, and Portland, and has international partnerships with 22 churches in 12 different countries. Lakepointe is also involved in local missions with 35 local mission partners in Texas.

Steve is the author of 3 books and will be releasing his 4th book in 2023: It Starts at Home; Tribal Church; Money Matters in Church; Leading by Letting Go (2023).

Tim is the founder and lead pastor of Liquid Church, regularly spotlighted as one of America’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Churches by Outreach magazine. Since launching in 2007, Liquid has rapidly grown to seven campuses across New Jersey reaching thousands with the Gospel and baptizing over 3,100 new believers in Jesus’ Name.

Tim is the author of Liquid Church: 6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ (Zondervan), named 2020 Leadership Book of the Year by Outreach magazine. A dynamic communicator, Tim is a national conference speaker known for creatively communicating the Bible with cultural insight, heart, and humor. 

Liquid’s innovative approach to multi-generational ministry has been spotlighted by NPR, CNN, Fox News, The Today Show and the New York Times.

An expert in church mergers and healthy systems, Pastor Tim hosts the Church Changer ministry podcast. He also leads the Lead Pastors Coaching Network to coach and equip senior pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters to reach the next generation for Christ.

A graduate of Wheaton College (IL), Tim and his wife Colleen enjoy lake life with their two children in northern New Jersey.

Tom has worked in the corporate lending arena for more than 30 years, helping to finance complex capital expenditures by providing analysis, structuring, guidance, and negotiations on behalf of clients. Tom brings a deep level of experience to Ministry Solutions’ clients, having been involved in more than $1 billion dollars of financing involving many types of financial structures throughout his career.

Tom's primary role with Ministry Solutions is to work with lenders to provide optimal financing alternatives for our clients. He creates a consensus with the church leadership on a loan request amount and its timing, then creates and presents the loan request for multiple funding institutions’ review. After approval, Tom will lead the negotiation on terms and conditions, and walk with the church through loan closing. Tom also conducts all of the financial data analysis and provides project budget oversight during the pre-construction loan process.

Tom graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1986 and, over the years, has regularly volunteered at church and other civic organizations, including serving on various oversight committees at church, as home group leader, on the worship team, in the children’s ministry, and the maintenance team. For several years Tom also served on the Central Florida Board for United Way in the capacity that distributes funds throughout central Florida, and on the Board of Directors for a crisis center for women where Tom and his family have volunteered for 20 years.  

Vivienne is a co-founder of her multi-site church Crossroads in Cincinnati.  She spent 27 years working in Corporate America before coming on staff at Crossroads. Vivienne started the Studio Team at Crossroads Church, which is their internal agency of marketing, analytics, research, design, and digital products to help Crossroads reach new people, connect them with God, and get involved in our community. She currently leads the Growth team for Crossroads with responsibility for Site Expansion, Leader Academy (staff leadership pipeline development), and Staff Communication & Culture. She's passionate about developing leaders and investing in women.