Leadership
We enjoy being given to the Church in the servant roles that bring growth and maturity. Our life work is given to nurturing the heath of the Father’s family, in our fields of shepherding responsibility. The local fellowship of the Boiler Room has grown up into a place we happily call home.
We function as a mutually submitted team of friends that seek to empower one another as we bring our diverse input to consensus decision making. We receive the wisdom and directional guidance of our oversight team as ones who are invested in the health of our souls, our marriages and families, and our fields of relationships.
Adam Cox has called Kansas City home for over a decade ( previously from North Carolina) and is one of the founding members and DNA carriers of the KC Boiler Room Family. Along the journey he followed the call of Jesus to England for a summer and was swept off his feet by a lovely South African girl, named Juli, doing missions with YWAM. Their dating adventure led them to four continents in six months before Juli also made Kansas City her home. Adam and Juli have been married for five years and have two beautiful, fun little girls named Liliwyn and Selah. One of the joy’s of their marriage is serving the Boiler Room family together with their closest friends. Adam and Juli are both on the BR Core Team of which Adam is the team leader. They enjoy dance parties with their girls, South African braai’s (bbq but better), watching and playing sports, seeing sons and daughters come into a fuller reality of the Spirit of adoption and adventuring all over the world with the Holy Spirit.
David and Molly Blackwell are from Chicago IL (which they are quite fond of), but KC is very much their home and has been for 9+ years. They have 2 boys, Samuel (7), William (4) and are currently in the process of adopting a little girl from Thailand. The Blackwell’s have been on the Core Team from the beginning and have hosted more BR parties than they can number. David also helped pioneer 24-7USA/Campus America and still maintains a role on the 24-7 National Team. His leadership locally revolves around the extension of the Kingdom through prayer, worship, and demonstrated love in the city.
Wendy is a Wisconsin native who migrated south to Kansas City in 2005. She was part of establishing both the KC Boiler Room and the 24-7 Prayer USA team and resource base. For 4 years, she was privileged to shepherd the Boiler Room family as part of its Core Team, and coincidentally for 5 years she served praying university students through the Campus America initiative. Now, while still rooted in Kansas City, she's turned the majority of her focus to encouraging the fires of prayer and Kingdom family across Asia. She's on the 24-7 International Prayer Team, focusing on Asia, and she spends nearly a third of her time there each year. As a matter of priority, Wendy spends regular time resting, running, drinking PG Tips and cooking large vegetable-full meals for friends.
Born western PA. Grew up outside of Pittsburgh PA. Came to Christ in Jr. High. BA English/BA Philosophy IU of PA. MA, Westminster Theological Seminary, Glenside, PA. Robb has had a variety of ministry and market-place jobs over the years, all with an entrepreneurial flavor. He began by starting indigenous college fellowships with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, then after seminary did church planting internationally for 8 years with the Presbyterian Church of America. Following this he served as an associate pastor specializing in small group minstries in a large church. He then branched out into social services for several years, administrating new programs and HUD grants for social services in the KC metro. He currently helps manage a small video security company in addition to serving as a pastor at the BR. He has always had a passion for worship, prayer, small group leadership development, pastoral care and missions! After attending the Boiler Room for 16 months Robb joined the Core Team and became an official part in March of this year. He has been joyfully married to Patti for 32 years! They have three children and two grandchildren (so far)!
Nathan and Marisa Chud proudly hail from the last great frontier of Alaska, where they shared their first kiss when they were five. They moved to Kansas City in January 2002 with the intention of completing a year of seminary training. Little did they know the friendships they would make would eventually give birth to the KC Boiler Room. Both Nathan and Marisa remained a part of the core team at the BR until the summer of 2009 when they relocated to Boston, MA, where they currently reside. Marisa is a law school student and Nathan is a high school teacher. For more on the Chuds' happenings, stop by nathanchud.com.
Jon grew up in Japan, raised his three children in Amsterdam, and now lives high in the Rocky Mountains, USA with his wife Mindy. After 30 years of helping to plant simple churches on three continents, he now traverses many nations encouraging 24-7 communities and mobilizing cities in prayer, unity and strategy. He is President of CityForce and supports the work of 24-7 Prayer in USA and Canada. Jon loves sushi and secretly dreams of one day driving his very own snowplough.
Joe and Angie Steinke made the move to Kansas City in summer 2011. The national and international scope of nurturing the fields of new faith communities and leadership development landed Joe and Angie in Kansas City after a 30-year history in Madison, WI. They have two daughters and three sons and have extended their embrace to welcome many other young people to come live with them over the years. The vibrant young Kansas City Boiler Room has become the resource hub for their current work, and they look forward to a fruitful maturing of their mentoring work as they reorient to life in KC.
Gyle serves as a pastor at Believers Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been married to his best friend Kelly for almost 17 years. They have three children together and love being parents. He has been at Believers almost since its beginning, starting in 1998. He studied theology at ORU and went to seminary there, and he's done a little bit of doctoral work at Regent University. Gyle is also a musician and plays drums with a group called Tribe. He loves having the privilege of working every day with some of his best friends.
After coming to faith in the “Jesus Movement” days and then working briefly in ministry in Southern France, Terri married Michael in 1977. The Sullivant family moved to Kansas City in 1987 and served in pastoral and spiritual leadership at Metro Christian Fellowship in many capacities until retiring from the church staff in 2007. In 2005 Michael and Terri founded Radius, which is an equipping ministry to the Body of Christ at large. Terri is the mother of five children, all of whom deeply love the Lord. Terri travels the country teaching and speaking, and also started Fully Alive Life Coaching in September of 2009 as a life coaching practice for transformational life and career coaching.
Jonathan and Melissa Helser are worship leaders and songwriters whose hearts bleed to see a generation get wrecked by the love of God. They live in Sophia, North Carolina and lead a multi-generational ministry with Ken and Linda Helser (Jonathan’s mom and dad) called “A Place for the Heart." For the last ten years they have pioneered a summer camp focused on releasing youth into creativity and worship. They have also founded and lead a creative worship school called the "18-inch journey." They have two amazing children and a labradoodle with a breathtaking afro.
We function as a mutually submitted team of friends that seek to empower one another as we bring our diverse input to consensus decision making. We receive the wisdom and directional guidance of our oversight team as ones who are invested in the health of our souls, our marriages and families, and our fields of relationships.
Our Core Team
Adam and Juli Cox
David Blackwell
Wendy Andrews
Robb Black
Additional Founding Team Members
Nathan and Marisa Chud
Our Advisory Team
Jon Petersen
Jon grew up in Japan, raised his three children in Amsterdam, and now lives high in the Rocky Mountains, USA with his wife Mindy. After 30 years of helping to plant simple churches on three continents, he now traverses many nations encouraging 24-7 communities and mobilizing cities in prayer, unity and strategy. He is President of CityForce and supports the work of 24-7 Prayer in USA and Canada. Jon loves sushi and secretly dreams of one day driving his very own snowplough.Joe and Angie Steinke
Joe and Angie Steinke made the move to Kansas City in summer 2011. The national and international scope of nurturing the fields of new faith communities and leadership development landed Joe and Angie in Kansas City after a 30-year history in Madison, WI. They have two daughters and three sons and have extended their embrace to welcome many other young people to come live with them over the years. The vibrant young Kansas City Boiler Room has become the resource hub for their current work, and they look forward to a fruitful maturing of their mentoring work as they reorient to life in KC.Gyle Smith
Gyle serves as a pastor at Believers Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been married to his best friend Kelly for almost 17 years. They have three children together and love being parents. He has been at Believers almost since its beginning, starting in 1998. He studied theology at ORU and went to seminary there, and he's done a little bit of doctoral work at Regent University. Gyle is also a musician and plays drums with a group called Tribe. He loves having the privilege of working every day with some of his best friends.Terri Sullivant
After coming to faith in the “Jesus Movement” days and then working briefly in ministry in Southern France, Terri married Michael in 1977. The Sullivant family moved to Kansas City in 1987 and served in pastoral and spiritual leadership at Metro Christian Fellowship in many capacities until retiring from the church staff in 2007. In 2005 Michael and Terri founded Radius, which is an equipping ministry to the Body of Christ at large. Terri is the mother of five children, all of whom deeply love the Lord. Terri travels the country teaching and speaking, and also started Fully Alive Life Coaching in September of 2009 as a life coaching practice for transformational life and career coaching.Jonathan and Melissa Helser
Jonathan and Melissa Helser are worship leaders and songwriters whose hearts bleed to see a generation get wrecked by the love of God. They live in Sophia, North Carolina and lead a multi-generational ministry with Ken and Linda Helser (Jonathan’s mom and dad) called “A Place for the Heart." For the last ten years they have pioneered a summer camp focused on releasing youth into creativity and worship. They have also founded and lead a creative worship school called the "18-inch journey." They have two amazing children and a labradoodle with a breathtaking afro.
