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Myles Sweeney
President, Grace Ministries International
Myles founded the first GMI church in Wharton, Texas in 1991, and presently serves as its senior 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.
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Lee Bryant
Vice President, Grace Ministries International
Lee Bryant is the pastor of Grace Community Fellowship of Brazosport. He and his wife Tressie live in the city of Richwood, a heavy industrial community in South East Texas. They have two married children that serve in the ministry with them, and three grandchildren.
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.
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Alan Alford
Senior Pastor, Grace Fellowship Cabot
Alan is pastor of Grace Fellowship of Cabot, Arkansas. He and his wife Jeanne live in Cabot. They have two children. Daniel, the oldest, is married to Jennifer and they are parents of a beautiful baby girl. Matthew, their younger son, is a college student and works in the family furniture store along with his brother Daniel. Both children are actively involved in the ministry with them. Cabot is located 19 miles north of Little Rock in the central part of Arkansas. Cabot is a rapidly growing, family-oriented community that is a great place to live and raise a family.
Alan entered into the ministry in 1991 and has planted and led churches in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. His passion for his community and the state of Arkansas is to see the Kingdom of God advance into every area of society. He has degrees from Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He completed his theological training with an emphasis in education and children.
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Wayne Kelly
Senior Pastor, New Hearts Church
Wayne and Vanessa Kelly, along with their two daughters, Shannon and Jessica, moved to Harrison, Arkansas in 1993. For many years, Wayne was an itinerant teaching evangelist, speaking in many churches and colleges. But in 1996, God led them to begin New Hearts Church in their home. New Hearts Church was started with a desire to reach the unchurched, and to disciple these new Christians to bloom where they were planted. The first members of New Hearts Church were their unchurched neighbors. New Hearts has grown from a small house church to a recognized influence in the city of Harrison. It became part of GMI in 2004.
New Hearts Church and Pastor Wayne have been featured in two TV documentaries in their efforts to help their community deal with racism. One titled “Banished” is due to air on PBS in February 2008.
Wayne preached his first sermon when he was fifteen. His greatest gift may be tenacity. Wayne and Vanessa have been married twenty five years and together have helped numerous couples discover a fulfilling marriage. The vision statement of New Hearts says it all. “Searching the seeking, serving the suffering, and sending the servants.”
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David Allen
Senior Pastor, Grace Community Fellowship Needville
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.
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Jim Beaver
Senior Pastor, The Flame
Bio coming soon...
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Mike Rod
Senior Pastor, Grace Community Fellowship Brenham
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.
Mike looks forward to many more years of service both to the Lord and those He continues to add to the Body.
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Steve Wernecke
GMI Worship Pastor
Bio coming soon...
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