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OUR TEAM

Our team brings a deep desire to turn your God-given dream into a ministry or business that lasts. With a variety of startup skills and background, we will walk alongside of you, providing exceptional startup training, coaching, and support. Together we will navigate the challenges of starting new, watching your dream come to life.

 

Our trainers and coaches have all been a part of startup teams, both faith-based and secular. Their life experience spans corporate America to mom and pop businesses, urban churches to fast-growing suburban church plants.

 

Our coaches are especially qualified to help your startup move to sustainability. In addition to being trained in our unique StartNew process, FiveTwo coaches have completed in-depth coach training through CoachNet and meet monthly as a group to sharpen their coaching skills. Teams in StartNew consistently give them rave reviews.

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Trainers

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Rev. Randy Miller

National Catalyst Director
Houston, Texas

Randy provides a depth of insight that makes an organization of any size and complexity more effective in their mission.  Randy has demonstrated experience in values discovery, strategic planning, donor engagement, startup sustainability and...

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Coaches

2023 Larry Rietz

Larry Rietz

Coach
Austin, Texas

With 28 years of experience as a senior executive (vice president) for a Fortune 100 company, Larry comes with a strong background in management, information acquisitions, customer service, team building, and communication. He was responsible for lau...

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2023 Jorge Silva

Jorge Silva

Coach
Fontana, California

Jorge Silva is a global entrepreneur, educator, coach, and mentor with over 30 years of global experience in companies ranging from non-profits to start-ups to Fortune 100 in multiple industries. Currently, he divides his time between teaching...

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Staff

2023 Oscar Benavides

Oscar Benavides

Instructor
Dallas, Texas

Oscar Benavides is a Vistage Chair where he coaches 10 CEOs and business owners in Dallas/Fort Worth and is the facilitator for the peer advisory group of executives. He has been coaching FiveTwo teams and leaders since 2016. He served as Vice...

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Jessica Babcock

Donor Data Administrative Assistant
Wilton, Iowa

Jessica joins our team after years of experience in various ministry roles, including Lutheran education, nonprofit ministry support, curriculum development, and more. Here at FiveTwo, she enjoys "working behind the scenes," supporting our Development...

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Julie Judman

Digital Communications Director
Houston, Texas

Julie builds digital engagement across our amazing network, coordinates our digital campaigns, and manages other engagement initiatives. She loves connecting with people who are passionate about FiveTwo's unique ministry. Julie and her husband, Josh, have...

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Rev. Randy Miller

National Catalyst Director
Houston, Texas

Randy provides a depth of insight that makes an organization of any size and complexity more effective in their mission.  Randy has demonstrated experience in values discovery, strategic planning, donor engagement, startup sustainability and...

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Michael Nowicki

Learning Communities Director
Orlando, Florida

Michael graduated from Concordia Milwaukee in 1983. For the next 17 years, he worked as a Professional Educator, Coach, Athletic Director, and Youth Director. Starting in 2000, he began a career with a major financial institution. During those 20 years...

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Abigail Taylor

Director of Operations
Phoenix, Arizona

Abigail oversees all of the Operations at FiveTwo with the support of a fantastic team. She loves matching people's strengths to roles and watching them succeed. Abigail and her husband Nick reside in Buckeye, Arizona and homeschool their three sons, Ezra...

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Certified Catalyst

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Rev. Bill Woolsey

Certified Catalyst
Burnet, TX

With decades of experience in starting and leading ministries, churches and networks, Bill now invests his life in men and women who want to reach people for Jesus in new, creative ways. After serving congregations in the Midwest, he and his family...

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Rev. Chris Troxel

Certified Catalyst
Ann Arbor, MI

Originally from Quincy, IL, God provided Chris and his family with many great and diverse experiences in many different places growing up. He’s serves as a church planter with the University Lutheran Chapel staff at University of Michigan, currently working w...

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Rev. Derrick Hurst

Certified Catalyst
Marengo, OH

Derrick has been a church planter, associate pastor, sole pastor and senior pastor in his 20+ years in ministry. Each of these roles have shaped a robust understanding of the dynamics of church leadership. Derrick creates environments filled with excitement...

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Rev. Gene Johnson

Certified Catalyst
Tomball, TX

Gene has served in pastoral ministry for over 17 years, serving as both a sole and associate pastor. He has served as Executive Pastor at Trinity-Klein Lutheran Church for the past 10 years.These experiences have cultivated in him a deep passion for...

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Rev. Jeremy Jacoby

Certified Catalyst
Thornton, Colorado

With over 25 years of experience planting and revitalizing churches Jeremy is passionate about helping churches reimagine their future in which they reach their communities with the love of Jesus. Jeremy Jacoby, a Colorado native, is a graduate of Denver...

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Rev. Jamison Horton

Certified Catalyst
Omaha, NE

Jamison's passion is to serve the overlooked, discounted, forgotten, and unseen, opening doors that were closed and inviting people to the table who wouldn't be ask. His heart leaps when the Gospel speaks to the hearts and people beginning to see...

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Tina Jasion

Certified Catalyst
Baltimore, Maryland

Passionate about moving ministry ideas into fruitful action, Tina founded the Faithful Innovation coaching practice in 2014 and podcast in 2018. She holds an ACC credential with the ICF. Tina came to the Christian faith in her mid-20’s. While raising a f...

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Rev. Jay Reed

Certified Catalyst
Elk Grove, CA

Jay spent the first years of his life as a happy pagan intending to go into law—blissfully unaware that God had other plans. After being baptized into the promises of God, at the age of 22, he traded courtroom ambitions for the slightly more unpredictable w...

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Rev. Pete Marcis

Certified Catalyst
Napoleon, Ohio

Pete has served in the parish for 37 years, beginning his ministry in a small congregation as the sole pastor, then as an Associate pastor, and for the last 20 years as Senior Pastor of a large congregation.  Throughout his ministry he has always found...

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Rev. Randy Miller

Certified Catalyst
Houston, TX

Randy provides a depth of insight that makes an organization of any size and complexity more effective in their mission.  Randy has demonstrated experience in values discovery, strategic planning, donor engagement, startup sustainability and...

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Rev. Tim Niekerk

Certified Catalyst
Tomball, TX

Tim has been serving in full time ministry as a pastor since graduating from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 1997. His first call was to plant a church in the northwest suburbs of Milwaukee. In 2006, Tim accepted a call to serve as the Connections pastor...

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Donor Data Administrative Assistant

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Jessica Babcock

Donor Data Administrative Assistant
Wilton, Iowa

Jessica joins our team after years of experience in various ministry roles, including Lutheran education, nonprofit ministry support, curriculum development, and more. Here at FiveTwo, she enjoys "working behind the scenes," supporting our Development...

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Church Partnership Director

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Rev. Randy Larson

Church Partnership Director
Thornton, Colorado

Randy serves as the Church Partnerships Director at The FiveTwo Network, where he empowers pastors and congregations to develop unified growth strategies that engage entire church communities. With a deep passion for helping churches thrive, he leverages his...

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Chief Financial Officer

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Chris Franzmann

Chief Financial Officer
Cypress, Texas

Chris serves as the Chief Financial Officer at the FiveTwo Network, ensuring that budgets are established, financial data flows to the right places to help the President and the Board of Directors understand the financial data generated.  Chris is...

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RETURN POLICY

Print Books

We understand that you may wish to return a book for any number of reasons. We accept returns shipped to us within 60 days of the purchase date. Please note that if you are returning books, they must be unused in order to receive a refund.

Please send the return to:
FiveTwo Network
ATTN: Returns
PO Box 644
Buchanan Dam, TX 78609
USA

Please include a short note, that includes your order number, explaining the reason for your return.

Once we receive your return, we will promptly issue a refund to the account with which you placed the order.

We do ask that you please understand that shipping fees will not be reimbursed. Our return policy does allow for a refund for the item cost. Please note that if you are returning books, they must be unused in order to receive a refund.

E-books

We are unable to accept returns for e-books and downloadable PDFs. If you have difficulty downloading an e-book or pdf please contact us at [email protected].