Equipping Leaders to Connect, Grow, and Serve Together

We empower Christ-following executives to integrate faith and leadership while building communities of impact and generosity.

PURPOSE

We bring together Christian executives who feel spiritually isolated, stagnant, or unfulfilled, so that we can help them CONNECT with peers, GROW in Christ, and SERVE with purpose and impact.

MISSION

ACE’s mission is to help launch, nurture, and grow spiritually impactful communities so Christian executives can advance God’s Kingdom worldwide. ACE accomplishes its mission by providing executives an opportunity to Connect, Grow, and Serve with other Christ-following leaders in a trusted peer community.

1

Community First
Build trusted spaces for peer connection, engagement, affinity and mastermind groups, leadership roundtables.

2

Guided Growth
Provide structured frameworks, coaching, mentoring, spiritual, and leadership formation practices that integrate faith and leadership.

3

Kingdom Impact
Align business success with eternal significance through philanthropy, board service, and ministry partnerships.

OUR CORE VALUES

    • Encourage and teach servant leadership

    • Provide outstanding member services

    • Demonstrate and promote sacrificial love of others

    "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." - Mark 10:45

    • Drive clear communication in aspects of this ministry

    • Ensure full alignment with the ACE Vision and Mission

    • Instill unity of purpose in all members of ACE

    "The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’" - Genesis 11:6–7

    • Drive clear communication in aspects of this ministry

    • Ensure full alignment with the ACE Vision and Mission

    • Instill unity of purpose in all members of ACE

    "The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.’" - Genesis 11:6–7

    • Have integrity in all aspects of personal and professional life

    • Fully integrate what we say we believe with the actions we take

    • Rely on God’s foundational truths and avoid evil

    "Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’ and, ‘Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.” - 2 Timothy 2:19

    • Produce great earthly work, which brings glory to God

    • Produce results in every aspect of our earthly life

    • Entirely rely on Christ for earthly and eternal compensation

    "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." - Colossians 3:23–24

Board of Directors

  • Alan Avery

    Community Engagement

  • Andrew Kirkwood

    Innovation

  • Andrew Rauch

    Mission Advancement, Chair

  • Bob Pritchard

    Donor Development

  • Bruno Silva

    Innovation, Chair

  • Casey Gomes

    Executive Development, Chair

  • Daniel Mueller

    Donor Development, Chair

  • Gregg Lehman

    Board Chair

  • Jason Welch

    Community Engagement, Chair

  • Jennifer Harris

    Operational Excellence, Chair

  • Joe Carroll

    Spiritual Formation, Chair

  • Loran Gutt

    Donor Development

  • Melissa Aarskaug

    Operational Excellence

  • Shane Coker

    Mission Advancement

  • Stewart Pickard

    Operational Excellence

  • Steve Denison

    Community Engagement

  • Ted Beasley

    Executive Development, Chair

  • Tyler Townes

    Executive Development

  • Wade Allen

    Community Engagement

  • Todd Talkington

    Innovation

  • Zachar Lynde

    Operational Excellence

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