Doug Fike
Doug Fike serves as Executive Director of Growth Dynamics International, a ministry which resources leaders and churches around the country and overseas. Doug comes from a deeply rooted Anabaptist background.

Raised on the mission field, he has spent over 20 years as a leader/innovator in business, ministry and organizational development. He and Charlene have planted several businesses. He's also served as a church planter and pastor, a denominational renewal executive, and a congregational consultant focusing on mentoring, training, and ministering to leaders and unleashing churches. He has broad expertise in strategic planning, entrepreneurship, growth management, leadership development, managing transitions, and church planting. Doug has a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. Doug and his wife have two children, Justin and Janelle.

Charlene Fike
Charlene Fike and her husband Doug began their creative partnership as college students and have served together in pastoring, starting businesses, planting churches, launching a discipleship training program and mentoring students & missionaries. In 1995 they purchased a country inn in Virginia. For years Three Hills Inn ran as a business and was used to strategically host ministry leaders at minimal cost. In recent years expanded development on the Three Hills grounds has allowed GDI to use dedicated housing for ministry guests, which in turn has created the space and time necessary for Charlene to turn this beautiful old house into the premier country inn she's always seen it as.

Years ago Charlene made a goal to own five businesses by the time she was 40 years of age. Jesus, the ultimate entrepreneur, honored her youthful zeal teaching her through trial and error principles of Kingdom-inspired business. Currently she networks with other business, ministry and arts leaders to mentor an emerging generation of Jesus-followers committed to bring the Kingdom of God into all spheres of life.

Eric and Wendy Good
Eric and Wendy serve as GDI ministry hosts, cordinating the arrrivals and departures of leaders who come for stays of varying lengths at Three Hills. They also provide input and administrative support for on-site events. Wendy is a certifed coach with Transformational Leadership Coaching. She coaches church and business leaders across the nation and is a sought-after speaker and teacher for coaching-related events. Eric is a worship leader, a businessman and a songwriter who travels internationally with Vanguard ministries. Eric and Wendy live at Three Hills with their three sons Jamin, Ethan and Braden.

Jonathan and Christa Reuel
Jonathan Reuel serves as GDI's communication director, making use of his background in the arts and his strengths as a writer. Christa works as a web and print designer. She is also emerging as a conceptual artist. In this work she draws from literature, philosophy, music and film. Jonathan is a songwriter, a community builder and a creative consultant. He has toured extensively in the US and Canada performing original music and speaking about the arts, community and the Kingdom of God. He consults artists, worship leaders and entrepreneurs. The Reuels are launching a microchurch in Charlottesville, Virginia and dreaming about an arts reformation. This dream was also the impetus behind the Dandelion Seed Company which began in 2001.

Karen Bontrager
Karen Bontrager has walked in various leadership roles in church and para-church settings, including children and mentoring ministries, strategic missions, and advocacy for the unreached. She believes in living life intentionally with both God and people.

Karen experienced profound insights into God’s ways of leadership development through the ministry of GDI. This brought deep healing, refreshment and the ability to re-engage God’s plan and processing for her life. This experience, along with her passion to multiply into others and to exhort them to believe God for ALL he has purposed for their lives, drew Karen to be part of GDI’s core team. She brings administrative giftings as well. Karen and her husband, Doug, and their two children, Amber and Tyler, moved from Indiana to the beautiful mountains of Virginia in the summer of 2005. They reside in Sycamore Cottage, on the Three Hills property.

Tim Sawtelle
Tim Sawtelle serves GDI as a technology consultant and audio/visual expert. Tim and his wife Sherri head up Deep Freedom, a ministry based in Burlington, Vermont. They are also directors of East Gate Ministries, an organization committed to bringing life-giving ministry to pastors and church workers. GDI has partnered with East Gate to provide several retreats at Three Hills.

Photography: Photo 1, 2: Jonathan Reuel, copyright 2006 GDI, Photo 2:Al Huber. Photo 4: courtesy of the Bontragers.