David Limiero
“Is the life you’re living now the life you want to pass on to your disciples? Or your children?”
After a personal burnout experience in 2013, that question from the Lord started David’s personal journey to learn how to live and lead from overflow instead of overwhelm.
Here are a few of David's identity statements:
- I am a confident jar of clay, authentic and vulnerable, knowing that God is glorified through my cracks and flaws as well as my successes and strengths.
- I am a back-of-the-boat Barnabas who brings the peace, stillness, and authority of Jesus into whatever storms he calls me, whether inside or out.
- I am a strategically supportive Jethro who supernaturally blends soul care and systems to bless leaders and those they lead.
David recently completed 15 years of ministry leadership at Stadia, a global church-planting mission, and currently serves as a Performance Coach for the Full Focus Company and a faculty member of Journey Appalachia.
David's passion for mission started early, as he came to faith in a church plant in Colorado. After years of supporting church planting as a volunteer, he and Jan planted Life Journey Christian Church in Bakersfield, California in 2003 and launched two church-planting networks in the Central Valley and Central Coast of California before joining the Stadia team in 2007.
His passion for cross-cultural workers comes from his mom, who was a TCK in South America, and his brother, who has served throughout Africa for more than twenty years.
He fell in love with east Tennessee and Jan when he came here for seminary in 1989. David served as a pastor for churches in Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, and California before returning to east Tennessee in 2017.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado and the Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Christian Seminary. He's also a certified Salesforce Consultant and loves to use technology to free up people and organizations for relationships.
Jan Limiero
“Knowing your true identity brings focus and rest."
Jan Limiero is the co-founder of Eagles Rest, a ministry which provides encouragement and equipping to kingdom-minded leaders, where she serves as a Life Coach and Spiritual Director.
Here are a few of Jan's identity statements:
- I am a well-watered garden
- I am a Bride guide -- I humbly, gently, confidently, patiently and lovingly guide the Church, one person at a time or as a group, to lay aside what holds them back, be free from their captors, and become who they are in order to be the holy and righteous Bride of Christ.
- I am an Explorer of the Kingdom, an Adventurer who will scout out the land, and a Warrior, not afraid even of dark places. I will be given the treasures of darkness for myself and others
A Kingsport native, Jan served alongside her husband in local church ministries for more than two decades.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from East Tennessee State University, is a faculty member of the Leadership Institute where she earned a certificate in Spiritual Formation and Leadership and a second certificate in Spiritual Direction. She is a member of the Evangelical Spiritual Directors Association and a Faculty Member of Journey Appalachia.
Jan serves on Stadia’s Bloom leadership team where she leads a team who cares for women in church planting. She authored the Living the True You course and leads workshops and classes on spiritual formation, forgiveness, identity, prayer and spiritual warfare. Her twin sister and family have served more than twenty years as cross-cultural workers in South America.
Her passion is coming alongside ministry leaders to help them discover their identity and calling, which leads to greater focus and rest.
Board of Directors
Jeff Giesey
Jeff Giesey has a parent's heart for cross-cultural workers, as some of his own children have served for decades overseas.
Jeff is a Professor at Milligan University where he guides students in how to use their engineering skills for kingdom impact, particularly in impoverished areas around the globe.
As a Fulbright scholar he spent a year in Africa establishing an engineering program. He has extensive experience as a church elder and board member for non-profits.
Eve Giesey
Eve Giesey combines a mom's heart for cross-cultural workers with professional experience as a clinical care provider.
Eve is a licensed mental health counselor with GracePointe Counseling Center in Johnson City, Tennessee.
She is passionate about easing the stress of cross-cultural workers while they are serving and as they transition from the field.
Eve has been trained in clinical and aid-relief debriefing through the Abide program of TRAIN International, and founded the Co-Mission Collaborative to serve the needs of cross-cultural workers.
Chris and Jaime Hantla
Chris and Jaime are cross-cultural ministers of God and equipping coaches in the areas of identity, hearing prayer and inner-healing.
Chris and Jaime have a passion for seeing spiritual orphans wake up to the reality of their adoption in Christ Jesus as sons and daughters of our heavenly Father and then take hold of their inheritance as kings and queens in His royal courts.
Each earned the Master’s of Arts in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Seminary and have lived and worked outside the United States for more than 20 years.