Mike Downey
Founder & President
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Mike Downey is described as a man of passion. Over the past 30 years, Mike has helped thousands of men and women in 64 nations develop their God-given talents as leaders.
Prior to starting Strategic Impact, Mike served as Founder and President of Global Missions Fellowship, an international church-planting organization that planted over 3000 new churches in those 64 nations. Beginning in 1987, he led a team of more than 200 Staff Missionaries to help reach the lost on all 6 continents with the message of Christ, and equip emerging leaders in those countries with effective leadership skills.
He has served on the Board of Directors for Global Advance, an international Leadership Development organization and Reconciliation Outreach, an inner city mission that ministers to the poor. Mike currently serves on the Board of Six Pillars Partners, a private equity firm, and is active in inner city ministry to low income families through Behind Every Door.
Mike now brings passionate leadership to Strategic Impact to help equip a new generation of men and women with the leadership tools needed to make an impact in the 21st century.
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Floyd VanDeburgh
Vice President of Leader Development
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Floyd VanDeburgh grew up in a small community in western Oklahoma and met Jesus Christ as his personal Savior while he was a student at the University of Oklahoma Floyd served on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ for four years and then attended Dallas Theological Seminary where he received his Master of Theology degree.
Floyd served as an Associate Pastor in Dallas and then became the Founding Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Columbia, South Carolina, where he served for 23 years before joining the staff of Strategic Impact.
As a pastor, Floyd began participating in short term missions trips in 1987 and has led members from his own and many other churches in the U.S. on church planting campaigns to countries in central and South America, Africa, and Asia. Through this ministry, thousands of people have made professions of faith in Christ and scores of new churches and cell groups have been established. He has conducted leadership training conferences and seminars for existing and emerging international pastors in these places as well. Floyd’s passion and pursuit is to equip and train multiplying national pastors and leaders in every major region of the world to launch church planting movements to take the Gospel to every person on the planet.
Floyd has been married for 36 years to Sharon, his faithful and loving partner in life and ministry. They have four grown children and reside in Jackson, Mississippi. In addition to his international missions ministry, he sustains a ministry of personal evangelism and discipleship, serves churches in their outreach and missions efforts and enjoys the outdoors, horses and dogs.
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Dustin L. McCarty
Director of Operations
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Dustin McCarty was raised in the rural
farming community of Hennessey, Oklahoma. He came to know Christ as his
personal savior after hearing the Gospel through a children's ministry
at First Baptist Church, where his parents were active members. A few
years later, Dustin had the opportunity to participate in his first
missions experience in Chihuahua, Mexico, where many souls were won to
the Lord, and the team he was with "accidentally" planted a church. This
brief international experience planted seeds for future cross-cultural
experiences and ministry.
An Eagle scout, and honors student,
Dustin studied Civil Engineering at Oklahoma State University, but after
three years of study, he walked away from an almost full-ride
engineering scholarship to enter the College of Education - hoping to
make a difference in the lives of youth. After teaching Science and
Computer Literacy in Texas for a few years, it became apparent this was
not the best fit. Dustin entered the business field and found strong
success in sales and business development, eventually climbing to the
position of Vice President of Business Development in a small mortgage
investment firm. Dustin then heard the call to occupational ministry,
and began the transition to become the first full-time staff of Strategic Impact in 2004. Since that time, Dustin has overseen and taught leadership training conferences, and served fellow pastors in 12 nations on 5 continents.
A natural encourager and organizer, it is his joy to work alongside
Pastors and Church Leaders in various cultures and to equip them with vision, character, and practical tools for reaching the lost throughout their communities, cities, nations, and world!
Dustin was ordained through his local church, Denton Community Church, where he serves as Pastor of Worship. He teaches Missions Geography at Denton Calvary Academy
, where his daughters attend school, and serves on the Board of
Directors of Light Farms Community Cooperative, which seeks to resource
and serve local church bodies throughout North Texas.
Dustin,
his beautiful wife Tracy and their four sweet daughters, Dakota,
Trinity, Remington, and Sierra currently reside in Denton, Texas. To
see some family photos and keep up with the McCarty family, you can
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Omar Pina
Director, Latin America Region
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Omar Pina was born in Venezuela in 1960 and has continued to reside there his entire life.
He has been married to his lovely wife, Ana for 29 years, and they have three children. Two adult sons who are both now married, Omar, Jr. and Moises; and one teenaged daughter, Mariana, who continues to live with them at home.
Omar graduated from college in 1982 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He went on to work for several different companies in the telecommunications industry, and held various roles in technical departments.
Though Omar has never received theological training through a seminary, he has been discipled and thoroughly trained through the churches he has been involved with. He began serving as an Elder in their church in 1998, and has continued in that leadership role. Additionally, in 2001, Omar was invited to join the staff of Global Missions Fellowship as National Director of Venezuela. He currently serves as the Director of Latin America for Strategic Impact, and has already extended the reach of Strategic Impact into 7 different Latin American nations, seeing many churches planted and thousands of people come to faith... all branching from his base of Venezuela.
Omar’s vision is stimulating the church in Latin America toward establishing a Movement of Multiplying leaders - making multiplying disciples to plant multiplying churches in his own region, and then expanding that movement to other nations of the world by sending out Latin American missionaries.
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Sainet Phiri
Director, Southern Africa Region
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Sainet's Bio COMING SOON!
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Vasco Munkondya
Director, Malawi
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Vasco's Bio COMING SOON!
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Dennis Sitali
Director, Zambia
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Dennis' Bio COMING SOON!
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Dr. Israel Wandamba
Director, Tanzania
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