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Executive Directors

Your Leadership in Worldwide Evangelism.

Steve serves as Chairman of Worldwide Evangelism. His ministry began in 1972 as a traveling Evangelist and a Gospel recording artist. In 1984, he founded Christian Life Cathedral, a spirit-filled, inter-denominational church, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 2024, after 40 years of serving CLC’s growing, diverse congregation, Steve assumed the role of Founding Pastor Emeritus and is committed to championing the vision of the new Lead Pastor and investing in the next generation of the church.

Steve’s desire to encourage and honor men and women in ministry has allowed him to respond to international invitations to minister in 35 countries. His desire is to faithfully train, equip, and release followers of Christ to discover and fulfill their God-given destiny.

Steve and his wife, Eva Cosette, (Cozy), have released 15 albums. He is a songwriter of more than 70 published works and the author of “Serving with Honor.”

At the age of 17, Steve had a life-changing encounter with God that went something like this…’God, if You are real and if You are who they say You are, then do something with me’. From that point on his life was transformed.

After serving as Associate Pastor for 12 years and Senior Pastor for 9 years in Gretna, LA, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region and changed everything in South Louisiana. In Katrina’s aftermath, with a destroyed church and scattered congregation, Pastor Steve and his wife, Becky, purchased the current facility, renovated it and started WestPoint Church in November 2006. His desire is that each person know God and has a knowledge of His Word.

Terren is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and has been in full-time ministry since his graduation in 1999. Through his creative delivery style, it’s Terren’s desire to share a message that leads people into an experience with Christ in a relevant and personal way. Terren’s mission is to advance, encourage, and model hope.

Terren and his wife, Shinista, are the Founding/Lead Pastors of Life Church with campuses in McAlester and Wilburton, Oklahoma, and an Online Campus at lifechurchok.com. Together, they followed the call of God upon their lives to plant a new work that would reach people with God’s love. Since it’s launch, Life Church has grown from 56 to a weekly average of nearly 1,000. No matter the age, the ministries of Life Church are designed to lead people into a personal connection with Jesus Christ.

Teddy Flynn began his ministry in 1990 and has served faithfully for more than three decades as a pastor, teacher, and missions leader. In 1995, Teddy and his wife, Edith, founded Breaking Ground Ministries, Inc., where he continues to serve as president, focusing on church planting, leadership development, and missions mobilization. In January 2011, they also founded Comunidad Cristiana Oasis, a Spanish-language church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Teddy oversees a network of more than 400 churches in Guatemala, known as Iglesia Camino Bíblico de Guatemala, where he has ministered for over 30 years. He also currently serves as president of The Living Faith, Inc., a global ministry founded in 1975 by Dr. Dale Yerton, dedicated to equipping the body of Christ through discipleship, leadership development, conferences, and Christian education which currently serves over 500 churches in Mexico.

Dehner is the lead pastor of The Blended Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. This multicultural church represents 30 nations of people. Pastor Dehner has an earned Doctorate from Trinity Seminary. He is involved in contextualized church plants in Indianapolis, while also starting bible schools with I.C.M. throughout Asia.

Dehner has also published three books: “The Blended Church,” “Delayed Not Denied,” and “How Do I Know What You Say is True.”

Tim and his wife, Rhonda, moved to Highland and became the Senior Pastors of Cornerstone Church in 1985 with the belief that people are designed to make a difference in this world and they can leave a worthy legacy long after they’re gone. They believe Jesus invites us into a new reality called “The Kingdom of God.” It looks like ordinary people living out an extraordinary story together.

Tim is gifted with a ministry of teaching the Word of God. He has a passion to teach leadership and team building principles found in the Scriptures. God has opened many doors locally, nationally, and all around the globe for him to teach others how to lead.

Tim believes every person is created for a purpose, they are created for relationship, and created to be part of the Kingdom of God.

Gail Stathis is the Vice President and a Co-Founder of EME Ministries. She serves also as the Lead Pastor of Glyfada Christian Center in Athens, Greece, and is the Founder/Administrator of the Glyfada Christian Academy (K-12 program in Greece.) She has served on the mission field for more than 30 years, the majority of those based in Greece from where she has participated in ministry extensively throughout Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Gail has been hosting and guest ministering in conferences ranging from women’s to children’s, youth and family, as well as conducting evangelistic crusades and other outreaches throughout the region. She has assisted in planting, overseeing, or supporting churches in more than a dozen countries as well.

Gail has a tremendous heart for prayer initiatives and she has been leading prayer trekking journeys, especially through the countries of North Africa for the past 10 years. She continues to travel as a much-sought conference speaker and as a fundraiser and recruiter on behalf of EME Ministries. More recently, Gail serves as the Western European Zone Leader for the Vision International Educational Network and is part of the Empowered 21 Western European Cabinet.

Ronnie currently serves at Souls’ Harbor Church in London, Kentucky. He has a tremendous passion for local and foreign missions and works tirelessly to support both. Ronnie also has a very special concern and love for the youth in local communities and makes great efforts to promote outreach and ministry for them.

Ryan is the Lead Pastor of Antioch Church in Overland Park, Kansas, where he has served on staff since the spring of 2000. In 2013, he transitioned to Lead Pastor, accepting the baton from his father, Dennis Slavens, who served as the Senior Pastor for 40 years. Ryan’s heart is to lead in a way that is always submissive to the Holy Spirit and to declare the truth of Jesus Christ so that people will find hope and know life change through a relationship with Him.

Ryan and his wife, Jennifer, passionately pursue all that God has called them to in each season of life, intentionally enjoying every moment of the journey. Ryan and Jennifer have a son, Brady, who is married to Katelyn, and two daughters, Ella and Rylie. They also have 2 grandson’s, Slade and Blane.

Brad serves as Lead Pastor of Souls’ Harbor Church in London, Kentucky. He has a Bachelors Degree in Religious Education and has served in full-time ministry at Souls’ Harbor Church since 2009. Brad has served in the roles of Youth Pastor, Associate Pastor, and now, Lead Pastor, along with his wife, Amanda.

Married since 2009, Brad and Amanda, have a son, “Bradie,” who loves the Lord and loves to serve in the work of the ministry.

Brad has given his life to the work of the ministry and has been an Ordained Minister with Worldwide Evangelism for nearly 20 years. He considers the personal mandate on his life to be, “to love God and love God’s people.”