Phill Sandahl – Director

Phill brings skills and enthusiasm for marketing, research, website & social media development, organizing, integrating work & faith, and Business as Mission. He is a multi-disciplinary visionary who has dedicated his life to building the Kingdom by helping people develop and reach their God-given potential. Experienced in both the for-profit and the non-profit sectors, his strengths include building multi-cultural teams and inter-organization cooperation.

His responsibilities included: training in Spanish and English at HCJB World Radio while he was Director for Communications Education; National Personnel Director for 300+ Ecuadorian staff; Director of a Research and Strategic Planning office for an inter-mission Consortium of International Broadcasters; Director of Marketing at Crown International, in the Broadcast Division; Country Director in Guatemala for a relief and development organization teaching life skills, Kingdom values, and community building to both church and civic leaders.

With his wife, Mary Jane, they raised four boys while living overseas. They now have added 4 daughters-in-law and thirteen grandchildren.

Ari J Rocklin
Consultant to the worldwide tentmaking movement

Ari desires to see new tentmakers leave for places where Jesus’ name is not yet known. He is an inspiring, passionate, and entertaining speaker at many missions conferences, seminars, and Bible schools around the world. He is based in the Gulf Islands of BC, Canada, is fluently trilingual, and has lived on three continents and traveled to 54 countries.

As a former tentmaker, he began assisting the development of national tentmaking movements in Europe, working with traditional missions agencies to launch training and mobilizing efforts. He has twice pastored churches in transition, one of which sent him to India as a missionary. Together with his wife Ruth, they served in Asia as tentmakers.

His specialty is in running fast-paced tentmaking seminars and consulting with mission agencies and BAM companies to help develop their tentmaking vision. He is also an approved speaker for the Perspectives course, Lesson 10: How Shall They Hear? He is the Tentmaking Associate to the World Evangelical Alliance, and the Adviser for Tentmaking for the Alpha Course in the Workplace. He is a published writer and composer whose songs have been recorded by various artists.

ENDORSEMENTS

This speaker should come with a warning: You might do something irrational and actually go to the nations upon hearing him speak – Retired Missionary

Ari is the most effective tentmaker mobilizer I know – AWM Mission Agency Leader

Ari is a man with a passion to mobilize people to use their professional gifts and training as a platform for sharing Christ in places where full-time religious professionals (such as those who call themselves missionaries) are not welcome – Bob Morris – Tyndale

Ari is the premier authority in the world on tentmaking – Dr. Neal Johnson – Author of Business as Mission

Ryan Mallari – Vice-Chair

Ryan is passionate about advancing the Kingdom of God.  He grew up in Manila, Philippines and attended Catholic school.  He came to know Christ at an early age due to the witness of immediate family members who lived and modeled their faith.  Upon graduating from high school, Ryan moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California.  While at USC, he was actively involved with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

For over a decade, Ryan has served as a CPA with extensive auditing and consulting experience with church plants, mega-churches, and Christian not-for-profit ministries.  He has also served in various leadership capacities at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California for over 11 years.  Ryan enjoys traveling, an interest that the Lord has re-purposed while taking the Perspectives course.  Ryan has since been traveling for purposes of mission.  Over the last decade, Ryan has led short-term mission trips to Swaziland, Thailand, Cambodia and Egypt with Lake Avenue Church.

Today, Ryan is the Chief Financial Officer for a custom packaging solutions company based in Southern California.  His wife, Jennifer completed her Doctorate in Psychology and Master of Divinity degrees from Fuller Graduate School. They recently celebrated their fifth year of marriage and are raising their family in Burbank, California.

Dr. Stan Anderson
Secretary/Treasurer

Stan was born and raised near Chicago and attended Wheaton College where he obtained a B.S. in Chemistry in 1965. He then did his PH.D. work at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in inorganic and physical chemistry. He was active in student ministry with the Navigators and InterVarsity during these years. It was at Urbana ’67 Missions Conference that he was sold on tentmaking.

He applied and was offered a position at Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran in 1972 where he stayed for 4 years. God had brought together a team of tentmakers from a number of countries who effectively reached out to university colleagues.

Stan subsequently taught at UC Riverside and then at Westmont College in Santa Barbara for 31 years. Westmont was sympathetic to him taking sabbaticals and leaves-of-absence – to teach in Sudan as a Fulbright lecturer in 1985-86, then Oman from 1990-92 as department head, and finally teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt from 2000-2001. The ways in which God opened up these opportunities were truly amazing. He “retired” in 2009 and is doing chemistry research at UC Santa Barbara.

Stan is currently involved with international students, and has served as elder and chair of missions at his local church. He has been on the GO board since 2007, has participated in courses and seminars, and has been invited twice to give presentations for GO at Asian –American church mission conferences in Southern California. He and his wife, Suzanne, have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Stan has both attended and taught at the GO Equipped Tentmaking Courses.

Esa Ontermaa – member

Esa was elected to the board in the Jun 2016 meeting. He is a pastor and alumni of the GO Equipped course.

Carol Clark
Former Intent board member and active promoter of tentmaking

Gary Ginter
Chairman/CEO – VAST Power Systems, Inc. – Co-founder of Intent USA

Dr.  C. Neal Johnson
Professor of Business and Management – Hope University

Dr. Danny Martin
Co-founder of Mission to Unreached Peoples & Tentmakers International

Jo Plummer
Founder and Editor at Business as Mission Website and The BAM Review

Kitty B. Purgason, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Cook School of Intercultural Studies
Biola University

Steve Richardson
has served as President of Pioneers-USA since 1999

Dr. Steve Rundle
Professor of economics and international business at Biola

Mark Russel
CEO of Elevate Publishing – Author “The Missional Entrepreneur”

Scott White
Global Outreach Pastor – Lake Avenue Church – Pasadena CA