Neil Cole: Executive Director of CMA and a board member. Neil helped found the ministry and has helped lead it from its inception. Neil has been in pastoral ministry for fifteen years and is an experienced church planter, author and consultant. Neil is also a founding leader of the Awakening Chapels and of organic church planting movements.

Ed Waken: Arizona Regional Director of CMA and a board member. Ed is an experienced church planter. He started and still pastors the cell-based ValleyLife Church in Peoria, AZ. ValleyLife has gone on to sponsor three other church plants. Ed has led our efforts to multiply our ministry in Arizona. Many of our systems are in various levels of deployment in the Phoenix area. Ed is our first regional director beyond Southern California and does an outstanding job.

Phil Helfer: an original member of the board, Phil pastors Los Altos Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach CA. Phil is a true pastor who brings a shepherds heart and keen insight to all our situations. His church parented Awakening Chapels Awakening Student Initiatives as well as Eternal Grace.

Chris Suitt: an experienced church planter himself, Chris was one of our first plants in 1990/91. His church, New Hope Community Church, in Meniffee Valley, CA has also daughtered a church. Chris provides a strong prophetic voice to our movement.

Paul Kaak: a missionary strategist and author who currently serves with the Leadership Institute as well as CMA. Paul has helped to develop strategic resources for our movement and the kingdom at large. We consider him a very important part of our team. Paul serves as a board member and is also cofounder of the organic church planting greenhouse movement. Paul and his family recently started a new church in Weed, CA while vacationing there. Today they are initiating a new work in the Pomona area of CA.

Alfredo Vega: a Spanish speaking pastor in Southern California. He has proven very capable at developing leaders and sending them out. Under his leadership his church has planted five churches in three years (all Spanish speaking).

Juan Hernandez: Juan is a Spanish speaking church planter who has started churches in San Pedro, Montebello and now is in Quail Valley, CA. Juan has been mentored and sent from Alfredo Vega's church in Bellflower.

Dezi Baker: a church planter in Mesa, Arizona. He has started a church called Big Fish which is an expanding network of organic churches and has already spread from Arizona to Texas and even as far as Alaska.

Doug Lee: a church planter in Fontana, CA. Doug is a very accomplished worship leader. He has been planting an emerging network of organic churches called The Fountain which now has several extension chapels in three counties of the Inland Empire spreading from Azusa to Riverside.

Bryce Barnes: After being mentored by Dezi Baker in the original Big Fish Chapel in Mesa, AZ, Bryce found himself called to the Houston area of Texas to start Big Fish there. He also serves with Young Life there passing on what he himself has received to young people who will one day take Jesus all over the world.

Richard Rossi: an experienced church planter, Rich recently started an organic church planting network called Eternal Grace. The mother church is in Long Beach CA. Richard is also a very accomplished musician and worship leader.

Dave Lantow: a church planter sent from Awakening Chapel to start churches in San Francisco. He shows great promise as an empowering leader and has a great heart for relationally based ministry and evangelism. Dave and his team currently have a couple of organic churches which they call "Faith Communities"

Kenny McCord: Kenny and his family moved to San Francisco to bring the transforming message of Christ. He soon joined the Lantows and together they have become a formidable team to transform the "Heart of the City" of this very important West Coast city. Check out their new family web site @ www.mccordonline.org. For more information on their ongoing work here in San Francisco go to www.faith-communities.org and www.urban-eyes.org.

Jeff Knowles: Jeff has started a church in the La Mirada/Whittier area of CA called Contagious Christian Fellowship.

Rich Hagler: after a short and intensive internship with Neil at Awakening Chapels in LB, CA. Rich and his wife are now relocated to begin the whole process from scratch in Portland Oregon. Rich and Kimberly have several years experience in ministry and church planting. To learn more information about Summit Fellowships go to their website here www.worldaccessnet.com/~summit.

Zac Salom: Zac came to Awakening from France to learn how to do organic church planting. He soon became part of our family and is now back in France starting organic churches. Zac speaks French, Arabic, Spanish, and English and has a vision to reach Muslim North Africans in Paris, as well as import organic church planting into hostile Islamic nations of Africa. He is recently married and starting a new family as well! Our church planters do know how to be fruitful and multiply to fill the earth!

John Laurain: having come out of a sorted past of drug abuse and prison time,John has been trained as a church planter through Awakening Chapel. He has already begun a chapel, which has daughtered another in Long Beach. He has relocated to Medford, OR to begin an Awakening Chapel there.

Mike and Tana Macy:The Macy's attended the Organic Church Planters' Greenhouse training in Oakland, CA in 2001 and then, along with the Kaaks, began an organic church in Weed, CA under the shadow of Mount Shasta. It is also helpful to have the Macy's on our team as they are true organic farmers!

Mike Wallace: an experienced church planter with us from the beginning. He has already started one church and is gearing up for another plant in Gilbert/Chandler, AZ.

Lee Gilreath: a retired counselor who has been sent by ValleyLife to start a church in Cottonwood, AZ. His new churches are called Beacon of Hope and they have been just that to many people found in the dark places of life.

Bill Kitchell: Bill was a church planter in Hemet, CA who we adopted in to our fellowship several years ago and we are so glad we did! He has risen to be a leader and an encouragement to all. He has also raised up a new organic church planter.

Brent Cain: Brent is a retired peace officer, now an organic church planter in Hemet, CA. A recent graduate of our theological learning system, Brent is being sent out of Brethren Bible Church in Hemet, CA.

Brian Ollman: a few years ago Brian began a church reaching out to the postmodern ravers and punk rockers in the Pomona Arts Colony in downtown Pomona. Alongside the church they have also started a variety of businesses to help sustain the church planting movement. Today, Brian and his family are relocating to the Santa Monica/Venice area of LA to initiate a new movement of organic churches. Brian is also a graphic designer

Brad Fieldhouse: being sent by the Reformed Church of America to start an urban church multiplication movement in Long Beach, CA. Brad quickly got connected with CMA and Awakening Chapels. His growing network of organic churches, called Crossroads, spreads along the coast from Long Beach to Irvine, CA and is preparing to send a missionary to Mexico City to work at the largest University in the world.

Eric Herron: with much experience as a worship leader for a cutting edge Gen-X church in Southern CA, Eric is now ready to start organic churches that multiply. He is looking to start an Awakening Chapel in Pasadena and will also provide some service to the Portland regional initiative as well. Click here for more information on this powerful ministry www.unkeptrecords.com.

Michael Bischoff:Michael and his team have begun an organic church in South Orange County called Ekklesia, with a heart and vision to see many other churches started in this region and beyond. Michael is a church planter with the Christian Reformed Church and founder of a ministry to leaders and churches called Souleader Resources.

Kevin Rains: Kevin has been apart of the leadership of the Vineyard Central church in Cincinnati, OH. This church has a testimony that will undoubtedly be a great example to countless others in her quest to be all that her Groom desires of her. At last count there are 20 organic house churches in their network. www.vineyardcentral.com.

Mike Jentes: is a very gifted leader of leaders. He has started a network of organic churches called "the quest" in the Short North Arts District of Columbus, OH. They also have a church meeting on the Ohio State University Campus. He is currently the conference and Greenhouse Coordinator for CMA as well.  You can contact him at organicchurch@gmail.com

Angela Bokkes:Angela came on board in 2001 as an office assistant and has quickly found herself one of our most valuable players. All who are in this growing family know the significant role she has played in keeping the work progressing in an orderly and responsible fashion.

Other Supportive Consultants, Mentors and Influencers:

The following people are considered important contributors to our vision and strategy. These are the mentors we lean upon heavily. They are the voices that have shaped our hearts and visions for what we are becoming and it would be wrong not to mention their names when we speak of the team. Some have been active in our day to day formation and development and some have been distant voices calling to us to be better and break out of the box of the ordinary in how we view church.

Carol Davis
Wolfgang Simson
Mike Steele
Thom Wolf
George Patterson
Tom Julien
Dave Guiles
Ed Trenner
Ralph Moore
Bob Logan
Tony & Felicity Dale
Larry DeArmey