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.
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Community First
Build trusted spaces for peer connection, engagement, affinity and mastermind groups, leadership roundtables.
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Guided Growth
Provide structured frameworks, coaching, mentoring, spiritual, and leadership formation practices that integrate faith and leadership.
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Kingdom Impact
Align business success with eternal significance through philanthropy, board service, and ministry partnerships.
OUR CORE VALUES
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alan Avery
Community Engagement
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Andrew Kirkwood
Innovation
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Andrew Rauch
Mission Advancement, Chair
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Bob Pritchard
Donor Development
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Bruno Silva
Innovation, Chair
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Casey Gomes
Executive Development, Chair
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Daniel Mueller
Donor Development, Chair
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Gregg Lehman
Board Chair
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Jason Welch
Community Engagement, Chair
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Jennifer Harris
Operational Excellence, Chair
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Joe Carroll
Spiritual Formation, Chair
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Loran Gutt
Donor Development
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Melissa Aarskaug
Operational Excellence
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Shane Coker
Mission Advancement
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Stewart Pickard
Operational Excellence
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Steve Denison
Community Engagement
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Ted Beasley
Executive Development, Chair
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Tyler Townes
Executive Development
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Wade Allen
Community Engagement
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Todd Talkington
Innovation
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Zachar Lynde
Operational Excellence