Executive Directors

Your Leadership in Worldwide Evangelism.

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Steve Dixon

Chairman

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.”

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Harry Saylor

Administrations and World Missions

As Executive Director of Administrations and Executive Director of World Missions for Worldwide Evangelism (WE), Harry also enjoys ministering the Word both in the States and around the world.

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Teddy Flynn

Teddy Flynn has been involved in international missions for more than 28 years (11 of those living in Mexico). He and his wife, Edith, are the founders of Breaking Ground Ministries focusing in Latin America. He is dedicated to raising up and equipping leaders and pastors in Latin America.

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Steven Smith

Pastoral Care

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.
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Terren Anderson

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.

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Ronnie Ball

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.

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Tim Forsthoff

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.

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Dehner Maurer

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.”

C. Gail Stathis

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.

Ex-Officio

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Dale Yerton

Board Representative of Presbyters: 1990 – 2001

Chairman: 2002 – 2009

Director of World Missions:  2010 – 2019

Lifetime Honorary Member

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Kemp C. Holden

Secretary: 1971 – 2009

Chairman: 2010 – 2019

Lifetime Honorary Member

History of Leadership

W.S. McMasters, Chairman: 1971 – 2001

Howard Holton, Interim Chairman

Dale Yerton, Chairman: 2002 – 2009

Kemp Holden, Chairman: 2010 – 2019

Steve Dixon, Chairman: July 2019 to present

Presbyters

Pastor, Parkway Christian Fellowship
Randy Williams
Alabama
Pastor, Summit Church, in Foley, Alabama
JP Wilson
Alabama
Senior Pastor, Life Church, in Charleston, Arkansas
Terry Scott
Arkansas
President, iYes Foundation
Simeon Hinsey
Arkansas
Co-Pastor, Cornerstone Church in Highland, Michigan
Rhonda Forsthoff
Michigan
Victory International Fellowship
Gary Miracle
Tennessee
Senior Pastor, Calvary Chapel of Danville
Roger Stroup
Indiana
Pastor, Souls' Harbor Church in London, Kentucky
Brad Parrett
Kentucky
Pastor, Antioch Church in Overland Park, Kansas
Ryan Slavens
Kansas
Lead Pastor, The Ridge at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Michael Goldsmith
Oklahoma