Dan DeGroat |
Dan DeGroat received his BS from Middle Tennessee State University, and worked as a park ranger before entering Christian camping ministry full time in 1978. Since then he has directed three different camps in Tennessee and Texas. Dan served five years as president of the Christian Camp & Conference Association (CCCA) TN/KY Section, and on the CCCA Board of Directors. In 1996 he and his family moved to Russia where they lived for a year and a half. In 1997 Dan began as Director of Russia/CIS Ministries for CCCA. He was elected to, and currently serves on, the Executive Committee of the Christian Camping International oversight body, the International Forum. Dan has made extended trips to more than twenty countries, and currently spends about twenty percent of his time traveling. Dan and Becky have three children—Michael, Sarah, and Ryken—the youngest of whom was adopted from an orphanage in the Russia Far East. |
Jeff Bice is a graduate of the University of Texas. After serving a two-year tour in the Navy as an aviator, he has spent the last 16 years involved with Christian camps. He served 4 years with Kanakuk Kamps in Missouri, 10 years directing camps with Campus Crusade for Christ/Athletes In Action in Cincinnati Ohio, and Camp Balcones Springs in Texas. He has traveled with numerous short term mission teams in Asia, Australia and Micronesia, Europe and Central America. Jeff is a husband of thirteen years to Stefanie, and has three children – Joshua, Alexandra and Madeline. |
Jeff Bice |
Stan and Ginny Gillespie |
Stan Gillespie was raised in a camping ministry in Alaska . After his military service and Bible College time, he worked with delinquent youth and was Minister of Education in a church in Oregon. In 1973 he moved to Alaska to take the leadership of Victory Bible Camps. During the Gillespie's thirty years in that position, the ministry expanded to take on multiple camps in two locations and became Victory Ministries of Alaska , of which Stan was CEO. The ministry also reached out to several regions in the Russian Far East for camping and English Language Training. During his tenure Stan served on the Board of Directors, Regional Representative, and three terms as Alaska Section President for CCCA/USA. Stan also served on the Regional Board of Directors, was an Area Representative, and Regional Chairman of the Ethics Committee for American Camping Association. In his ministry Stan served in leadership with a Mission Agency in Alaska as well as doing consulting work for camps and agencies involved in camping. Ginny Gillespie served as Victory Ministries' Accountant and financial officer for those thirty years; she also served in numerous other capacities to assist the ministry, and chaired a number of committees. Ginny has also served three separate terms as a CCCA/Alaska section officer. Ginny has been to Russia , assisting in the work of Victory Ministries , Inc. In 2004, the Gillespies resigned their positions with Victory Ministries to move into a worldwide ministry with Global Outreach Group. |
Serving under Global Outreach Group
Linda Byrd serving CCI/Latin America
Jack and Laura Friend serving CCI/Romania
Darren and Julie Holt serving CCI/Latin America
Global Outreach Group Board Of Directors
Bruce Bruinsma Neil Fichthorn Don German Rick Hicks Bob Lindsay