Meet our team.
Our team is growing rapidly, as people of faith from urban communities across America rise up to fulfill the call to marginalized neighborhoods.
We would love to see you at our next WI+H Ministry Studio, as your first step to leading WI+H in your city.
Here are a few of our visionary leaders you will meet and collaborate with when you join us.
Walter Harvey, Founder
Who are you WI+H?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Sherman Park and Brown Deer Neighborhoods
Favorite quote:
“Start by doing what’s necessary and then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -Francis of Assisi
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How you spend your time:
Leading a neighborhood faith community on my block, empowering entrepreneurs, pastors and ordinary people to dream new possibilities, leading the National Black Fellowship and the WI+H Movement
Credentials:
Apostolic Leader at Parklawn Church in Milwaukee, WI, CEO of the PRISM Economic Development Corporation
Why WI+H inspires you:
The inner cities of America are hard places to serve. They suffer from years of neglect. Jesus is the answer and the Church must present the good news in as many ways as possible because not everyone will come through the doors of a traditional church. WI+H provided a vehicle whereby ordinary Christ followers can live on mission, answer the call to discipleship and serve with Jesus and one another in tough places that have been abandoned and written off as hopeless.
Tronn Moller
Who are you WI+H?
Across the nation with leaders and entrepreneurs who want to make an impact and transform communities.
Favorite quote:
"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. And you can't save the people if you don't serve the people." - Cornel West
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How you spend your time:
Learning best practices in the marketplace and utilizing them to transform leaders and organizations.
Credentials:
Consulting with leaders for community change for over 25 years and Professor of history at Delgado Community College for 16 years
Why WI+H inspires you.
WI+H inspires me because it is a movement that gives people the opportunity to weave Christology, Theology, and Ministry to get them on speaking terms.
Rick Kindschi
Who are you WI+H?
Throughout America with leaders and entrepreneurs stirring up hope in communities.
Favorite quote:
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Rev. Martin Luther King
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How you spend your time:
Increasing the relational capacity of others as an administrative servant to God-inspired dreamers.
Credentials:
Executive Director for Community IMPACT whose mission is to be a catalyst for creatively unleashing abundant resources so as to offer communities authentic community.
Why WI+H inspires you:
Racial disparities in education, economics, employment, violence, health & wellness are significant and severe. WI+H inspires me with the hope of systemic justice as a multi-denominational movement is unleashed to know and love our literal neighbors.
Robert Burnside
Who are you WI+H?
New Orleans, Louisiana - Algiers and Central City, Lake Charles, Louisiana - Chop yard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Mall city, Houston, Texas - 3rd Ward, Rosedale, Mississippi
Favorite quote:
“What you are born to do is more powerful than your past mistakes. God takes our mess and turns it into a miracle.”
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How do you spend your time :
Cooking, riding my bike and going to the movies
Credentials:
20 years of urban church planting
Why WI+H inspires you:
WI+H is a movement that leaves no pastor or community doing the hard thing alone.
Darrell Geddes
Who are you WI+H?
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Phillips, Powderhorn to the South, and Longfellow Neighborhoods & the Central to the West area where the largest Somalia population outside of Somalia live
Favorite quote:
“Preach the Gospel always, when necessary, use words.” -St Francis of Assisi
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How do you spend your time :
In the community; coming out from behind the desk.
Credentials:
Senior Pastor at Christ Church International for 19 years, Former Assistant Professor at North Central University, Former Executive Director at Urban Leadership Academy
Why WI+H inspires you?:
WI+H turns the church inside out! It refocuses the church on mission as it moves believers to respond to the pain points that exist within their community. It moves us outside of the brick mortar and into the community; into the “hedges and the byways” where people are hurting.
Tom & Trina Lyon
Who are you WI+H?
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Harrison Community
Favorite quote:
"I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed, that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they come from under that oppression." Malcolm X
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How do you spend your time :
In the community engaging in the lives of those that live and work there
Credentials:
Lead Servant of The Fruit Church Minneapolis, Stationary Engineer, Licensed Facilities Operations Manager
Why WI+H inspires you:
This movement recements us back to the foundation that Christ laid for us, to live out the gospel. Jesus never modeled outreach, He modeled In-Reach (Mark 2:15-17). Urban America is looking for leadership that will do more than pass them a meal, but have a meal with them. Jesus reminds us to honor the broken, to align, and not alienate. This movement is the reigniting of a spiritual revival in America!
Dr. James D. Croone Sr.
Who are you WI+H?
Seattle, Washington
Favorite quote:
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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How do you spend your time :
Exercising my mind and body (gym, reading and writing)
Credentials:
Director of the Men's Recovery Program (AKA. Seattle's Union Gospel Mission), Pastor of Risen Church in Seattle, Washington, Adjunct Professor at Northwest University, Author of Seymour & Parham: The Move of God Amid Relationship and Conflict
Why WI+H inspires you:
I am inspired to assist and link arms with like-minded partners in the metropolitan context, in hopes of mobilizing church planting in pain point areas of the city. As well as educating the church on racial reconciliation/reconstruction, and a path forward.
Alton Findlaytor
Who are you WI+H?
Sacramento, California
Favorite quote:
"Let all that you do be done in love." - 1 Corinthians 16:14
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How do you spend your time :
Reading, soccer, walking, traveling and international foods
Credentials:
Founder of Heart For All Nations, coach/consultant of pastors, missionaries, and ministry leaders, church planter, Certified Professional Life Coach and Continuous Improvement Specialist/Trainer
Why WI+H inspires you:
I am inspired by WI+H’s desire to reach marginalized people in our inner cities using innovative methods to plant communities of faith. The movement’s heart to create spaces where the body of Christ can loving have conversations that build unity among the different races.
Darnell Williams
Who are you WI+H?
Lima, Ohio
Favorite quote:
“It is not the critic who counts…”
“...if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - The Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt
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How do you spend your time :
Reading, cooking, learning ways to develop myself. Nothing beats a quiet evening watching a great movie with my wife.
Credentials:
Leading my faith community to walk with those who are suffering with food insecurity and Lead Pastor for 28 years
Why WI+H inspires you:
Anytime the Kingdom of God can become accessible to those who need it, excites me! WI+H is about being Christ, incarnational ministry, representing Him, being visible and present.
Gerard Ruff
Who are you WI+H?
Hampton, Virginia
Favorite quote:
“If you always do what you have always done you will always get what you’ve always got.” - Henry Ford
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How do you spend your time :
With family and in ministry, teaching and creating, bringing new ideas to life and into the marketplace. Also, working in the marketplace utilizing business for catalytic change.
Credentials:
38 years of ministry and focus on improving people’s lives through professional development, personal and spiritual effectiveness. Serves with The VA Unity Project, a coalition of 25+ ministries that provides practical touch points for the community like educational support, food, clothing, and shelter. We work together with the community to bring transformation by walking with others like police chiefs, school superintendents, politicians, business professionals, and community members.
Why WI+H inspires you?:
I’m inspired by WI+H because it’s BIG! It will outlive all of us; It will bring multitudes of blessings to people along the way.
Christopher White
Who are you WI+H?
Jacksonville, Fl 32246
Favorite quote:
“It’s time for the church to be the Church, Jesus built!”
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How do you spend your time :
Time with family, cycling, learning, building bridges between people and churches, and preaching the Gospel.
Credentials:
25 years in the marketplace. Church planter. Evangelist, and the Founder of One Body United in the First Coast. Coach on launching Faith Communities, leveraging Sent 6.7. Bridge builder between local churches and pastors.
Why WI+H inspires you?:
WI+H inspires me because there is an emphasis on churches being with each other and with their communities.