Glenn A. Barth
  National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries 

Rev. Glenn A. Barth serves with Jarvis Ward as Team Leader for the Mission America City/Community Ministries Division. Prior to serving in this role, Rev. Barth was the Executive Pastor at Colonial Church of Edina, MN. As a pastor, he has served churches in Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota.

Glenn’s first exposure to city transformation movements came in Pittsburgh in the late 1970’s. He was especially effective as he worked with fellow pastors in Muncie, Indiana in the 1990’s in the areas of citywide prayer, evangelism and social action. With Mission America, he works with pastors and lay persons throughout the nation in achieving the Mission America vision: The whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole nation and to the world.

His personal mission is "to mobilize the church in cities and communities for the transformation of lives and institutions under the Lordship of Jesus Christ by identifying, connecting, resourcing and empowering church leaders"

Glenn is a graduate of Denison University and Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary where he received the John Tate Memorial Award for Outstanding Potential in the Pastorate, and was named Outstanding Student in Theological Studies. Glenn has the distinction of being named one of the Outstanding Young Men in America for three years in a row.

Glenn and his wife Kathy have two children and live in Eden Prairie, MN.
 
Tel. 612-278-1730
   
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Jarvis Ward
 National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries 
 

Rev. Jarvis Ward serves with Glenn Barth as Team Leader for the Mission America City/Community Ministries Division. Jarvis left a promising career in the field of marketing and sales administration to go into fulltime ministry in Greenville, SC. Two years later he left Greenville in order to serve as Director of Camp Pioneer, a youth Bible camp in Pearl, Mississippi. Jarvis then joined the New Lake Outreach Center, an inner city ministry in Jackson, MS as the Director of Special Ministries. He went on to serve as the first Executive Director of Mission Mississippi.

Jarvis is involved in numerous para-church ministries and civic organizations and presently is the Mississippi Regional Trainer for The Intimate Life Ministry based in Austin, TX. He has served many years as a Volunteer Chaplain for the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility and was unanimously appointed as a member of the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to serve a term through the year 2004. Jarvis is involved in preaching and teaching throughout Mississippi as well as across the country.

Jarvis and his wife Brendalyn have five children and reside in Pearl, MS.
 
Tel. 612-278-1730
 
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Rev. Phil Miglioratti
 National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries 
(Seconded from National Pastors Prayer Network)
 

Rev. Miglioratti’s pastoral experience includes staff member at Willow Creek Community Church and more recently 19 years as Senior Pastor at The Woodfield Church in Schaumburg, IL. He has served as Vice-Chairman of PrayUSA! and Chicago City Coordinator for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Strategic Focus Cities effort. He is currently a member of the National Prayer Committee, prayer coordinator for the Chicago Metro Baptist Association, Prayer and Vision Consultant for the Illinois Baptist State Association and on the Servant Leadership Teams of One Great City, (Chicagoland City Reaching Iniative) and the Chicagoland Prayer Summit.

He graduated from Northeastern Illinois University and received his MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Phil has contributed to and edited several books and articles including House Of Prayer Church Prayer Manual and Prayorit!ze Prayer Manual.

Phil and his wife Carol have two married daughters and live in Palantine, IL.


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Rev. John Quam
 National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries 
(Seconded from Prayer Transformation Ministries)

John and Carolyn Quam grew up in Minnetonka, MN, and attended Minnetonka Community Church. They both accepted Jesus Christ as Lord early in their lives. John felt a call to missions while he was still in junior high school.
 
Following John’s graduation from the University of Minnesota, John and Carolyn were married in 1964. John completed his seminary training at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, MN, in 1968. Together with their children Jenny and Jodi, the Quams spent ten years serving in missions work in the country of Brazil.
 
Following their service in Brazil, John worked with the Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment (ACMC) and Concerts of Prayer International. He then joined Mission America as National Facilitator for City/Community Ministries. Mission America is part of the International Lausanne Movement and AD2000. In January 2000, John joined Prayer Transformation Ministries as Chairman and CEO.
 
John and Carolyn’s two daughters are both married. They have one grandson, Tyler.


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Allan L. Craigmiles
 National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries   
& National Resources
 

Allan Craigmiles was employed in the commercial banking field for 37 years and "retired" after 18 years as President/CEO of a community bank where he still serves as a bank director. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Full Employment in Klamath Falls, OR.

Mr. Craigmiles received a BS in Business Management from the University of Nevada, Reno and also graduated from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Ruetgers University.

Allan and his wife Jane have two daughters and two grandchildren and live in Klamath Falls, OR.


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