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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!

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.

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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.

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.