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During her 30 years of ministry Kim has worked in college summer ministry, served 2 years with a church in Argentina, ministered in France and Northern Africa with church planting and discipleship, and served with her husband as pastor and wife in California. She has worked as a high school Spanish, French and Multilingual teacher. Kim's favorite ministry is befriending internationals through English classes. She and her husband, Tim, a Church Catalyst with the Northwest Baptist Convention, have called Federal Way, WA home for 11 years. Kim loves traveling, hanging out with her 3 children (ages 22, 20, 20), and eating good food!

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Jeanette Fanai is the founder and director of The Church Network Hub, a ministry she launched in early 2004 after God called her to the Pacific Northwest with a church planting team to help start a new church in Auburn. Combining her background in finance and accounting with a heart to serve the local church, Jeanette created the organization to support churches with their day-to-day financial and administrative needs so they can focus on what they do best—ministry—without being weighed down by the tasks that often distract from their calling.

Over the past 22 years, the ministry has grown to a team of six and has served hundreds of churches across the country. Jeanette is married to her husband, Kima, a Worship and Associate Pastor in Kent, and together they love serving wherever God leads them.

Kima Fanai serves as the Worship and Associate Pastor at Riverview Community Church. Born in India, Kima spent nine years serving with Youth With A Mission where he developed a deep love and skill for leading worship, before moving to the United States in 2003 to serve as a worship leader at a church in Minnesota.

In 2008, following the Lord’s leading, he relocated to Seattle and served in ministry in White Center, where he led worship and served as a men’s discipleship program director. In 2010, he met and married his wife, Jeanette, and together they have faithfully followed God’s call to serve churches and communities in Washington, Alabama and Kentucky. The Lord called them back to the Northwest to serve in Kent in 2023.

Kima is passionate about worship, discipleship, and helping others grow deeper in their relationship with Jesus, serving alongside his wife and church community.

Church planting is in Gary Irby's blood. His father was a church planter, and before that his grandfather. Following in their footsteps, Gary has helped start multiple churches through his work as a church planter, staff member, mentor, supervisor, consultant, and Church Planting Director. Gary caught a personal vision for church planting when God made it clear that He wants us to do more than addition. He wants us to be involved in multiplication.

Gary and his wife, Joyce, were high school sweethearts have been married for over 35 years. They have four awesome children…Randi, Nathan, Austin, and Kendall, and three amazing grandchildren. Prior to his current position Gary pastored at The Anchor Church in Seattle and Life Baptist Fellowship in Clackamas, Oregon.

Gary has been the Church Planting Director for Seattle Church Planting since 1998, and has been directing Northwest Baptist Convention church planting since 2013.  

David has lived all over the USA and served in multiple churches and roles. He and his family served with IMB in Southeast Asia and East Asia for 14 years before coming to the Northwest almost 11 years ago. David serves on the Church Health/Church Planting Team and gives direction to NWBC Missions partnerships. He holds a doctorate in missiology with partial emphasis on conflict resolution.

Tim has served in various ministry capacities, currently as Church Catalyst and Flourishing Pastors Specialist of the Northwest Baptist Convention. He has served as an interim pastor at several churches in the Pacific Northwest, guiding them through seasons of transition. Previously, he pastored churches in California and served in international ministry. He holds a Master of Divinity, a Master of Theology in Biblical Studies, and is completing his Doctor of Ministry at Gateway Seminary.

Tim has been married to his lovely bride Kim for over 26 years, and they have three grown children: Nadia, Mateo, and Mariel.

Roy Swihart is the owner of Interwest Construction Inc. and the founding pastor of Cowboy Church Bow in Bow, WA. He is passionate about developing leaders and building reproducible discipleship pipelines that multiply not only servants, but pastors and church planters. Through initiatives such as Foundations, MY12, and the 2T2:2 Church Planting Track, Roy is actively raising up the next generation of leaders to live on mission and plant Gospel-centered communities. Roy and his wife Amy are deeply committed to ministry, family, and investing in others to fulfill the Great Commission.

Zac serves as an Evangelism Specialist and Church Health/Church Planting Catalyst for the Northwest Baptist Convention. He is the author of "Hope for the Broken Soul" and recently completed the Google AI Essentials Specialization through Coursera and is a certified trainer for Google in AI. He is passionate about helping church planters and revitalizers navigate the intersection of theology, soul care, and modern technology. Zac lives in Spokane Valley with his wife, Nichole, and their two children.