Core Instructors

It has been said, “You never take a class, you take a teacher”. In this school you will learn from practitioners who are still “doing it” and who will teach you how to “do it”. These men and women will encourage and empower you to find your place of fruitfulness in life, culture and ministry.

Bobby Alger

Bobby Alger is founding and lead pastor of Crossroads Community Church in Winchester, Virginia (planted in 1998). He has written several books on practical discipleship and equips leaders in the spiritual gifts and community engagement. He has led numerous prayer initiatives with pastors and churches in his own community and provides apostolic oversight to several leaders and ministries within their region.

Wanda Alger

Wanda Alger is a fivefold prophetic minister with DOVE USA and is an intercessor, worship leader, speaker, and author of five books. She has been a field correspondent with Intercessors for America and hosts a personal blog site as well as publishes articles with The Elijah List, Charisma, 7MU (Lance Wallnau), and Spirit Fuel.

Duane Britton

Duane has served for the past 30 years in a variety of leadership positions in both the church and business world. He served for 17 years as DOVE Westgate’s lead pastor. Duane owns and operates an organizational development consulting and leadership coaching practice which launched in 2008. He holds a master’s degree in psychology/counseling. Duane’s blend of gifts—geared toward equipping leaders and strengthening the body of Christ—include teacher, administrator, church planter, counselor, mediator and conference/seminar speaker.

Peter Bunton

Peter, originally from Great Britain, lives in Pennsylvania. He serves on the DOVE International Apostolic Council and is a member of the DOVE Europe apostolic team. His main responsibility is the director of DOVE Mission International, where he helps develop and send missionaries from the USA. He has published works in the area of church history and cell groups and has received a PhD in missiology from the University of Manchester, England, for his research in founders’ succession in international Christian movements and organizations. Read more about Peter.

Rex Burgher

Rex is president of Kingdom Life Ministry in Dillsburg, PA. In 1995, Rex and his wife, Lois, were touched by a powerful baptism of the Holy Spirit which propelled them into a worldwide ministry. They traveled around the world for three years assisting Randy Clark in spreading revival in over 15 countries. Rex carries a powerful anointing of the Father’s love that people tangibly feel in every meeting.

Tony Fitzgerald

Tony oversees Church of the Nations, a growing international church movement. He is an Australian who has spent much of his life in England and South Africa, planting and leading churches. Tony now resides in Richmond, Virginia. He and his wife, Marilyn, serve as true spiritual parents to church leaders all over the world. Tony has a clear message from God for the church of our generation.

Dave Hess

Dave Hess leads the pastoral team of Christ Community Church in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He also provides relational oversight to various affiliated churches and is an author of two books. Dave and his wife, Sheri, have been married over 30 years and have three adult children.

Larry Kreider

Larry has spent the past four decades training leaders to make disciples with the small group concept. Larry serves as the international director of DOVE International, a worldwide network of over 1,000 churches in 26 nations. Larry has written more than 40 books and travels extensively teaching and imparting practical discipleship to leaders globally. Catch up on Larry’s blog.

LaVerne Kreider

LaVerne Kreider started out in ministry as a teenager reaching out to street kids in a parachurch ministry. A compassionate “people person,” she has the special ability to connect with people’s hearts as she challenges them to grow spiritually. As an inspirational speaker, encourager, and spiritual mother to many women, her strength is challenging the church to walk in intimacy with the Lord and in the fear of the Lord and ministering the compassion of Christ. Along with her teaching ministry, she spends much of her time ministering to pastors’ wives.

Curt Malizzi

Curt and his wife, Anita, currently pastor a growing congregation in Telford, PA. Curt had a powerful conversion experience with the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1982, and immediately felt the Lord’s call to ministry. God raised Curt up through the business world, and over the last 16 years he has served in both assistant pastor and lead pastor roles. He has successfully led home groups, led people to Christ, taught in schools of ministry and led numerous teams on mission trips. He carries a prophetic anointing and gifting as a teacher and has the heart of a servant leader to raise up all believers into the fullness of their calling.

Nelson Martin

Nelson serves on DOVE International’s USA Regional Apostolic Council and coordinates the 24-Hour Prayer Watch. With a unique gift of encouragement and teaching, Nelson enjoys serving in practical ways in order to build genuine community and relationships with the people he serves. He envisions every believer living a victorious life as they connect in relationships with others and function as healthy members. Nelson and his wife, Sue, have three adult sons.

Dale Mast

In 1991, Bishop Bill Hamon ordained Dale as a “prophet who would pastor.” Dale has been the lead pastor since 1983 of Destiny Christian Church, a multi-cultural church in Dover, Delaware. Dale and LuAnne minister to networks, pastors, churches, retreats, Bible schools, church leaders and the saints both nationally and internationally. His unusual stories of ministry to a head NFL coach, waiters, cashiers, airplane passengers, and those caught in new age religion will challenge you to step out and be a witness, trusting the Holy Spirit to lead you.

Ron Myer

Ron has been involved in starting and multiplying small groups and churches for over 30 years. He serves as the assistant international director of DOVE International and provides regional leadership to the USA and Europe apostolic teams. Ron travels as a conference speaker providing leadership training and imparting the life of God to the body of Christ. Read more about Ron or catch up on his blog.

Craig Nanna

Craig Nanna leads the DOVE Latin America apostolic team where he gives oversight to churches. He and his wife, Tracie, also serve as the lead pastors of TransformChurch in PA. TransformChurch is an inner-city church with a mission to reach the nations through a multi-cultural, small group based approach. Craig’s passion is to prepare the church for the Greatest Awakening yet that will touch the nations of the world.

Tracie Nanna

Tracie and her husband, Craig, live in Reading, PA, where they planted a church about 20 years ago. Tracie serves as the disicpleship and life group pastor at TransformChurch, as well as on the eldership team alongside Craig, who is the lead elder. She enjoys traveling and ministering around the world to see God’s Kingdom advance, healthy leaders raised up and encouraged, and God’s people set free. Her favorite role has been being a mom to their three children.

Ibrahim Omondi

Ibrahim and his wife, Diane, serve on the DOVE International Apostolic Council. Ibrahim is also the leader of the DOVE Africa Apostolic Council. This team oversees over 200 churches in 6 nations of Africa. Much of Ibrahim’s time is spent in training and mentoring leaders for the work of church planting. He and Diane travel to provide leadership training in the form of seminars and equipping classes for leaders and churches in the DOVE Africa network.

Steve Prokopchak

Steve serves on the DOVE International and DOVE USA Apostolic Councils and has been involved in the Christian counseling field for over 30 years. He earned a Master of Human Services from Lincoln University. He is the author of several books, including Called Together, a premarital counseling workbook. He also travels throughout the world teaching and imparting to the lives of many, especially leaders. Read more about Steve or catch up on his blog.

Brian Sauder

Brian has been training leaders for 25 years as the director of leadership training for DOVE International. Brian also serves as a member of the DOVE International Apostolic Council and leads the DOVE Canada Apostolic Council. Brian is a prophetic teacher who loves to see people find their gifts and the courage to use them to minister in the church and the marketplace. He writes training resources and books. Read more about Brian.

Merle Shenk

Merle currently serves as the lead elder of Newport Church in Elm, PA. Merle and his family lived in South Africa for over 11 years as missionary pastors with the church they planted. They now lead the DOVE South Africa apostolic team. He is the founding director of HarvestNet School of Supernatural Ministry. Merle, and his wife Cheree, live in Lititz, PA with their family of five beautiful children.

Marty Smith

Marty and her husband, John, serve in the USA and England with DOVE Europe and Next Level International. Marty conducts workshops on practical application of prophetic intercession, moving in spiritual gifts, the song of the Lord and prophetic singing, and worshiping with flags and banners. She is also available to organize and conduct prophetic presbyteries and to lead prayer/intercessory teams, especially in church planting situations. Marty is recognized as a fivefold minister by DOVE USA.

Sam Smucker

Sam was raised in an Amish home in Lancaster County. He and his wife, Sherlyn, went to RHEMA Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK. After graduating in 1977, they received an invitation from a newly formed group that was looking for a pastor. Sam and Sherlyn returned to Lancaster in May 1977 and started pastoring Worship Center. In addition to his role as lead pastor, Sam serves as a regional director for RHEMA Ministerial Association International.

Gerry Stoltzfoos

Gerry and his wife, Julie, planted Freedom Valley Worship Center in Gettysburg, PA in 1992. Since then, God has given them the grace to help more than 50 other churches get started as well. Their goal is to plant more than 1,000 churches in their lifetime, here in the US and around the world.

Barry Wissler

Barry Wissler is the founding pastor of Ephrata Community Church. He is also the founder and president of HarvestNET International. Under his leadership, HarvestNET established Gateway House of Prayer and the Kingdom Ministry School. He also leads the apostolic council of Outpouring Family International, which is a family of churches founded by Alan Vincent. Holding theological degrees from Geneva College and Westminster Theological Seminary, Barry’s passion is to produce churches that are faithful to sound doctrine while also being receptive to the work of the Holy Spirit.

Dave Yarnes

For the past 15 years Dave has been a self-employed private investor whose diversified portfolio consists of commercial real estate food services, banking, pharmaceutical distribution and hotel operations. Philanthropic endeavors include Springs of Africa Micro Faith Financing, the Bares Foundation and Horizon Initiative. Dave’s passion is to see the church empowered to reach all of the seven mountains of influence.

Allan Yoder

Allan and his wife, Rebeca, are currently leading Good Shepherd Community Church in Reamstown, PA. They have planted churches in Arizona and California. Allan serves on the apostolic team of the Hopewell Apostolic Network. Together with Rebeca, he also coaches church planters and pastors of turnaround churches. Allan and Rebeca have been married for over 30 years and have three sons and one grandson.

Keith Yoder

Keith’s mission is to help others clarify their personal identity and empower them to fulfill their role in God’s Kingdom. He is the founder of Teaching the Word Ministries, a service to leaders in Christian ministries, congregations and the marketplace. Keith holds a Doctorate of Education in educational leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife Marian, an educator, reside in Willow Street, PA.

Brian and Kim Zimmerman

Brian and Kim had a calling to move outside the four walls of a church building and to take prayer, worship and serving to the street. They have served in the city of Lancaster for over 20 years in church leadership from worship director to elder. In 2007 they founded City Gate Lancaster, a center for prayer, training and serving. Brian and Kim both pastor Shift Church and are part of the apostolic oversight for House to House Micro Church Network work with DOVE USA. They have a heart for raising up leaders, and for seeing micro churches multiply.

Lester Zimmerman

Lester and his wife, Erma, live in New Holland, PA, where they serve as founding pastors of Petra Church. Lester also serves as apostolic leader of the Hopewell Network of Churches. He has a heart for practical regional transformation. Lester holds a master’s degree from Chesapeake Bible College and Seminary.