WHO WE ARE

Surge is a collaborative partnership of many local congregations throughout Arizona. We are not a parachurch or a separate nonprofit, but are church leaders committed to serving the church in Arizona alongside one another. Our leadership, financial support, and mission is all carried out through the many local congregations and strategic partners involved.

THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

Exists to coordinate, connect, and strengthen the work happening through the Surge Leadership team and across Surge.

Dennae Pierre
Aaron Dailey
Emma Tautolo

John DelHousaye
Caleb Campbell
Gavin Linderman
Rochto Joassin

THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Surge has a decentralized leadership structure where the primary leadership, innovation, decisions, and activity happens through various teams. Our leadership team is made up of the primary leader coordinating each team.

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FORMATION TEAM

Lead: Dr. John Delhousaye

Charlie Meo
Surge School

Matt Fogle
Spiritual Formation Team

Emma Tautolo & Chrystal McCowan
Neighbor’s Table

AFFINITY
NETWORKS

Lead: Aaron Dailey

Linda Morris
Women in Leadership

Luke Simmons
Church-Planting Cohort

Deenbo Kidane
Daniel Initiative

Nicolas Mwangi
Prayer Networks

REGIONAL
NETWORKS

Lead: Caleb Campbell

Wade Myers
West Valley

Jason Turner
East Valley

Wayne Wynter
Downtown Phoenix

Andy Littleton
Tucson

Caleb Campbell
North Phoenix

INITIATIVES

Lead: Emma Tautolo

Dawn Farmer
Women’s Peacemaking Conference

Mary Kaech
Phoenix Refugee Connections

Katie O’Dell
AZ127 (Foster Care Initiatives)

Michel Duarte
Surge Global

MOVEMENT DISCERNMENT TEAM

Linda Morris
First Pentecostal Church 

Renee Worcester
Don and Renee 

Wayne Wynter
Alhambra Beloved Community

Vermon Pierre
Roosevelt Community Church

Marty Caldwell
Young Life

Kit Danley
Neighborhood Ministries

BOARD
OF DIRECTORS

Marty Caldwell
Chief Foundation Officer, Young Life

Summer Montoya
Spiritual Formation Director, Redemption Gilbert

James Nwobu
Marketing Direction, Showit, Inc.

Dennae Pierre
Executive Director, Surge Network

Katianna Strunk

FOUNDERS

In 2007, Tyler Johnson & Chris Gonzalez, began organizing churches around equipping and releasing church members to be missionary-servants in our cities. Surge started as a collaborative project between several churches to train members of their congregations. As churches began to train their church members together,  churches from different denominations and backgrounds began to co-fund and share leadership of the Surge Network. In 2012, Tyler and Chris also founded the Missional Training Center (MTC) to provide an MA in Missional Theology. Redemption Church, Missio Dei, Via Church, Roosevelt Community Church, and New Valley Church are among the anchor churches who have participated since the beginning and provide substantial funding to sustain and grow the work of Surge.