Mike Woytasek has served his community, often in un-glamorous ways, for 30 years. Beginning with environmental studies and then monitoring the computers that control the pumps, Mike keeps the Twin Cities plumbing from backing up.  Mike also practices the life model in community. Not only has he attended six THRIVE training conferences, led two home-based Life Model groups (one which focused on Dissociative Identity Disorders) but he has attended the same church for 25 years and served as elder for six. The New Hope Church is known for its innovations in recovery and healing. Mike initiated and trained the participants in the church healing prayer ministry. He recently initiated, trained and led the first Thriving Recover Your Life class at church as well.

Mike is a contributing author to Dr. Fernando Garzon’s research book on the effectiveness of Theophostic prayer ministry called Pursuing Peace. This research project combined the work of professionals and lay ministers to see if the method was effective and not too complex for lay people.

Mike has trained himself carefully. He graduated from the Village School of the Bible, completed six years with Bible Study Fellowship and took Basic, Advanced and Level II Theophostic Apprenticeship under Dr. Ed Smith. Mike also served as a Billy Graham phone counselor for 14 years. Mike is a lover of the Word and is married to Deana, his best friend, ministry co-laborer and greatest supporter.

Steve Brum is a native of San Jose, CA and graduate of San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Accounting.   He is currently a controller for a corporation in the waste and recycling industry where he has been involved in implementing new recycling programs for local cities and counties, creating new budget processes for the company, as well as managing municipal relationships.  His prior experience also includes work in the grocery and auto repair industries. 

Steve and his wife Stacey currently reside in Salem, Oregon with their three children. They are involved in their church as first grade teachers and in their free time enjoy traveling to Mexico and Portugal, gardening, and camping.

Rev. Dick Anderson, M. Div. is a graduate of Boston University and Fuller Theological Seminary.  Dick pastored the Sierra Madre Congregational Church for forty years and recently founded Living Free in Christ Ministries, and serves as President.  He and his wife Dottie have three married sons, all of whom live in Southern California.  Dick and Dottie reside in Sierra Madre, CA.

Ariel is a licensed Architect in California specializing in church architecture since 1987 and is the Principal/Owner of Mosaic Architecture partnering with CityWorks LLC as a premier Church Project Management/Design firm managing $500 million in projects for church and para-church organizations. He served the Office of Emergency Services for the State of California administering over $25 billion dollars of response to the Northridge earthquake. Ariel has served as a Federal and State representative and lecturer for numerous benchmark education and training programs for building officials, contractors and design professionals.

Ariel is ordained as a pastor within the Church of the Nazarene and currently serves as an Associate Pastor in Pasadena, California where he and his wife Kohar lead the Young Adults Class. Ariel's greatest joy in teaching in any arena is from the Life Model and on men's maturity. The Babikian's have four children who are the joy of their lives. 

Kim Campbell, age 58, has served on our Board since 2004 and brings unique perspectives to our organization. Kim is a survivor himself who found great healing in the Life Model and in our ministry. Because of the freedom and wholeness the Lord provided through our work, Kim has become a strong advocate for our mission. Currently Kim, a physician assistant with 30 years of clinical experience, serves as the International Medical Director for The Voice of the Martyrs, a ministry dedicated to serving the persecuted church. He is now introducing the Life Model and the Immanuel Approach to VOM and its international partners. He and his wife Karen reside in Thailand.

Jim Martini was a top producer in telecommunications sales for 20 years.  His last assignment was as National Account Manager on the Kaiser Permanente account for Siemens Enterprise Networks.  Through his current business, he provides a convenient, inexpensive way for business owners and sales people to make their customers, clients and referral sources feel special and appreciated which results in better relationships and more repeat and referral business. 

Jim also serves as a quality of life results coach, drawing on his 20 years of success, familiarity with the Life Model, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the financial principles of Robert Kiyosaki, to make a difference in the lives of his clients. 

Jim and his bride of 25 years, Michele, have 2 children.  Mario is on mission with Campus Crusade for Christ in Salerno, Italy.  And Luisa is getting her Master's Degree in Theology and Catachetics at Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH.  Most weekends, you will find Jim and Michele sailing, skiing or watching dolphins from their motorhome.

Dr. Morgan manages complex technical projects and keeps them on time and within the budget. From her days as an Astronomy Camp speaker to tour guide for the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab and speaker for the UAINASA Space Grant Science Speakers Program, Rhonda has made highly technical material understandable and fascinating for the public. Her personal interests take her technical capacities with light, optics, the electronics of capturing light and digital filtering to video and motion picture production.