Meet Your

Thrive Team

It's nice to meet you. Meet our ministry team and our board of directors.

The People Behind Thrive

Our Ministry Team

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Cathy Gates
Founder & Director

After a 20-year career in public health and leading an evangelical church, Cathy founded Thrive to create safe, confidential spaces where ministry leaders can be honest about what they carry. Her focus areas include burnout prevention and healing through formational prayer.

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Dave Dion
Team Member & Pastor

Dave brings over 25 years as an ordained minister, serving as a pastor and within mission organizations. He and his wife Evelyn have been married more than 40 years.

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Allen Kleine Deters
Team Member & Pastor

Allen has pastored for many years across youth ministry, worship, church planting, and lead roles. He and his wife Karen have six grown children between them.

Governance

Board of Directors

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Cathy Gates
President

As founder of Thrive, Cathy is committed to providing a safe, confidential refuge for pastors, ministry leaders, and their families. She brings experience as a former executive director, a retired public health nurse, and more than a decade of ministry.

John Teeuwsen
Board Chair

A church elder for more than three decades with a Bachelor of Social Work, John has a deep desire to encourage and support pastors and church leaders.

Lili Giesbrecht
Treasurer

With over 25 years of bookkeeping experience across the charity and business sectors, Lili strives to be a faithful steward of what God has entrusted to Thrive.

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Dave Dion
Director

Dave brings over 25 years as an ordained minister serving as a pastor and within different mission organizations.

Get Involved

Come walk alongside us

We'd love to hear from you about volunteering, board service, or partnership as we strengthen the spiritual vitality of ministry leaders and their families.

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