GMI Board

Myles Sweeney

President, Grace Ministries International

Myles founded the first GMI church in Wharton, Texas in 1991, and presently serves as its Lead Pastor. His main focus is building the GMI churches through building its leadership. He also travels nationally and internationally, as the main mission thrust of GMI.

Myles’ ability to grasp Biblical principles and transfer them in a practical, motivating, and challenging way is one of the reasons he is a sought-after teacher and mentor. He is a spiritual father and pastor to pastors around the world, equipping them to be effective in their call and ministry.

Many of these pastors pushed him to develop training for parents, after seeing his children so devoted to God and God’s call on their lives. This became the “Kingdom Families” teaching which has been used by hundreds of churches in the U.S., and has been translated into various languages in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Myles and his wife, Sallie, were married in 1980. She is the love of his life, with his five children running a very close second.

Vice President, Grace Ministries International

Lee's passion is to see the Kingdom of God advance through the Brazosport area and transform entire cities. He has a heart for churches and has traveled internationally to Mexico, Cuba, Africa, India, and Europe, as well as many places in the USA to help strengthen and encourage churches and their leaders.

Lee is a gifted communicator, who alongside Myles, has developed teaching and training material that has been translated for use in many countries.

Mike Rod

Secretary, Grace Ministries International

Mike is pastor of Grace Community Fellowship Brenham, TX. He and his wife Debera and have three children, and at the present time 4 grandchildren.

Mike was gloriously saved in 1985 at the age of 31, and felt the call to pastoral ministry within a year of his salvation experience. In 1987, Mike began that journey by accepting a call as pastor to a small Baptist church in Rock Island, Texas. He graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1990 with an Associates Degree and has been actively involved in pastoral ministry for the past 20 years.

Under Mike’s leadership, GCF Brenham has grown into a church that is full of life, and full of transformed lives, as it continues to grow in its influence in Brenham and the surrounding region.

David Allen

Treasurer, Grace Ministries International

Called by God in 1972 to the ministry of God’s people, David began that ministry by doing foreign mission work. Then in 1985, he again answered God’s call to be a businessman. God gave David a vision to one day be self-supporting in full time ministry. After raising 3 children (all of who are born again and serving the Lord) and building a successful business which is still supporting him today, he was able to answer God’s call in the year 2000 to pioneer and build a church in Needville, Texas. Starting in an elementary school with just 6 people, and enduring a fire that totally destroyed the church building in 2006, he has now rebuilt a new facility and the Lord has added nearly 100 souls to the congregation since its inception.

David is an humble, caring pastor, full of grace and God’s gifting and life’s experiences, who desires to see people saved and set free to love the Lord with all their heart, mind, soul and body.

David lives in Boling, Texas with his wife Debbie. They have been married for 37 years, and have 3 married children.

Jim Beaver

Board Member

Jim is the senior pastor of Communities of Grace in North Richland Hills, Texas (Fort Worth area). He and his wife Katie live in Colleyville. They have three married children living in the Houston area. Their son James and his wife Brenna have two boys; David and his wife Jodi have two girls; and their daughter Mary and her husband Kyle are expecting a little girl.

Jim grew up in a Christian home and gave his life to the Lord in 1971 at 19. He sensed the Lord calling him to ministry in the local church and left law school in 1973, joining his church staff in 1974. Together with Katie, Jim has led small groups, provided family and marriage counseling, and worked to extend God’s grace to others. Jim and his family moved to south Dallas in 1981 to work with others as an outreach to those in the area. Jim’s passion is to help and encourage others to come into all God has for them. Together, they work to strengthen marriages and see children grow up in a positive, Godly environment.