Our Team
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Steve McVey
Executive Director
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Angela Audiss
Certified Coach
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Kim Kingery
Director of Communications
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Zach Kingery
Leadership Development Coach
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John Marquis
Leadership Development Coach
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Doug Preston
Ministry Consultant
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Molly VanZandt
Dirt Roads Network Missionary
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Andrew & Kara Hurlburt
Pastoral Team
Lead Pastors at Lamont Wesleyan Church
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Fred & Marvia Miller
Roadside Assistants
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Randy Garner
Leadership Development Coach
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Marilyn Searcey
Leadership Development Coach
Steve McVey
Steve McVey is the Executive Director. He served as the Lead Pastor of Lamont Wesleyan Church from 2000 to 2020. Lamont is a rural community of forty people nestled in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Over those two decades of ministry, Lamont went from a church slated to be closed, to a regional church. The church started a satellite location and planted three churches. In the process, Steve began to see rural/small-town America as a mission field.
Fueled by his passion for rural and small-town ministry, Steve was led to start Dirt Roads Network in 2018. The goal was to plant and revitalize life-giving, Bible-believing, community transforming churches throughout America. To accomplish this, DRN seeks to inspire and train pastors and congregations to see themselves as missionaries, called by God to reach their communities.
Steve is an inspirational conference speaker, gifted teacher, and visionary leader. He works with several ministries including Rural Matters Institute and Crossroads Farm. He advises several denominational leaders in the area of rural ministry. He is often featured in podcasts and magazine articles. He also meets with hundreds of pastors around the country in monthly Zoom calls.
Steve married his lovely wife Samantha in 1989. They have two amazing children. Andrew and his wife Kendra live in Hutchinson, Kansas. They have a daughter and a son on the way. Rebekah and her husband Tyler live in Westfield, Indiana.. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
Angela Audiss
Angela is a Certified Coach for DRN. Angela’s faith took root in the soil of rural America. The current of life sent both she and her husband Jason into the harvest fields of Ottawa, KS. Since their arrival to Ottawa in 2000 Angela taught physical education, worked with Jason to raise their three children Lindsey, Abigale, and Joshua, led church small groups (children through adult), developed church ministries, collaborates in leadership of an ecumenical community youth ministry, and recently completed a master’s degree in ministry leadership.
Angela and her family enjoy employing their gifts of hospitality to those in their respective spheres of influence. They actively seek to live lives on mission at home, work, school, church, sports, or wherever life takes them. She and her family’s faith is interwoven into all aspects of their daily lives. Angela is a natural pastor. She offers shepherding and encouragement to those around her and consistently champions others towards spiritual growth and development.
Angela is passionate about the missionary approach Dirt Roads Network implements as it seeks to “plant and revitalize life-giving, Bible believing, community transforming, churches in small towns and communities”.
Kim Kingery
Kim comes to Dirt Roads Network as our Director of Communications after 12 years in the field of education.
Kim strongly believes that God intentionally placed her in a rural community. Her heart continues to be cultivated toward ministering to women and families in small town America.
Kim is passionate about helping people identify the Kingdom call on their lives. She is a gifted leader who is willing to serve behind the scenes or out in front. She is excited to bring her spirit of problem-solving and collaboration to DRN and help us achieve our future ministry goals.
Kim and her husband, Jake, who is a native of Madison, KS recently built their dream home on the family farm in Greenwood County, KS. They have two daughters Lily and Charlie.
Zach Kingery
Zach Kingery is a Kansas native who grew up attending Lamont Wesleyan Church and has rural church revitalization as part of his spiritual DNA.
Graduating from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2010 with a BA in Pastoral Ministry & Biblical Study, Zach has pastored at churches in Oklahoma, Missouri, and South Dakota. He met his wife, Jessica, while attending OKWU and they have three children: Syrus, Etta, and Jameson.
Zach now comes to Dirt Roads Network as a rural pastor with a heart for rural churches to understand their importance in their community and, most importantly, their place in the Kingdom of God. He is partnering with DRN in the Upper Midwest Conference of the Global Methodist Church to strengthen rural church leadership and to encourage and equip rural pastors.
“It is my hope to see the pioneering, Holy Spirit filled, mission-minded zeal of the Methodist movement renewed in the rural midwest and beyond.”
John Marquis
John is a Leadership Development Coach for Dirt Roads Network. Specifically, John works as part of the leadership team directing our Revitalization services. John also serves as the Lead Pastor of Hope First Wesleyan in Hope, Indiana. John and his wife of 22 years have three wonderful children.
John grew up in Evansville, Indiana and is thankful for the influence of his parents who showed him how to love people like Christ loves us. In 2005, John accepted the call to ministry in 2005 and attended Indiana Wesleyan, studying Counseling and Pastoral Studies. In 2022, he was ordained in the Wesleyan Church and has used his knowledge and experience to coach pastors into developing lasting ministries in their mission fields.
John is committed to seeing rural communities transformed into Bible-believing and Bible-teaching mission fields.
Doug Preston
Doug is a Ministry Consultant for Dirt Roads Network. Doug was raised on a farm near Greensburg, IN. He graduated from South Decatur High School in 1977 and then went on to enter the business world right out of high school. Doug owned his own trucking company, as well as a furniture repair and refurbish shop in Greensburg, Indiana. He also served as a plant manager of Old Hickory Furniture in Shelbyville, Indiana.
Doug began taking business classes at Indiana Wesleyan University in 2002. In 2003, he accepted the call to pastoral ministry and immediately switched from a business degree to ministerial classes.
Doug began his pastorate in a Nazarene Church in Shelby Co.in 2004. He began revitalizing this rural church and was able to double its attendance and rebuild its financial stability in the two years while serving there.
In 2006 Doug was called to LifeLine Wesleyan Church in Greensburg, Indiana and pastored there for 15 years. While at LifeLine Wesleyan, Doug was ordained in 2009. During his time as the Senior Pastor at LifeLine he led 2 major building projects....the second one moving the church to a new 6 acre campus and building a new Family Center. These ministry initiatives helped the church grow from 30 to 170 people.
Molly VanZandt
Molly is a Dirt Roads Network Missionary. She is following the call to bring the life-giving, transformative message of the Gospel to Clearwater Township in Northern Michigan. In the heart of Clearwater Township is the small town of Rapid City, MI. Part of the vision for the ministry to Rapid City is bringing transformation to their main street. To do this, Molly is seeking funding for the purchase of a property, which will then be transformed into a ministry center and supporting business where people can gather and find community as well as support and resources in a Christ-centered environment infused with the love, grace, and truth of Jesus.
Andrew & Kara Hurlburt
Andrew and Kara Hurlburt are transplants from the Carolinas to Kansas. After co-pastoring a small, rural church in North Carolina for 11 years, through a series of God-events, they found themselves along with their 4 children, in Lamont, Kansas. Now, they can’t see themselves anywhere else!
Andrew has a passion to see disciples made and Christ-followers go deep in their faith. His pastor-heart often shines through in his relationships and community involvement. When he is not busy with Lamont Wesleyan Church, coaching, parenting, or serving in various capacities, he can be found re-charging in a deer stand.
Kara is most passionate about being a light to their four children (Cade, Reese, Molly, and Maggie) and making disciples in the rural context by building relationships, giving hope through service, and speaking when given a word to share. She enjoys decorating, hospitality, and sharing conversation over a cup of coffee or a glass of (sweet) tea.
Fred & Marvia Miller
Fred and Marvia Miller make it a priority to live each day saying, Yes Jesus, before they know what He will ask of them. They call it Living in Yes Mode, and it continuously adjusts and shapes their lives with God-serving opportunities. You are incredible, is the way this couple introduces themselves to nearly everyone they encounter. That statement usually results in an opportunity to portray the Gospel in some way, as well as to encourage their friends. It certainly causes the aroma of Jesus to linger where ever the Millers have been.
For quite some time Fred and Marvia have walked along side smaller Wesleyan churches encouraging them and assisting where needed. With the restructuring of the Kansas District, Dirt Roads Network invited the Millers to bring their experience and apply it in rural and small town settings as pastors to pastors. That ministry is well suited to this couple, whose focus centers on intentionally giving value to everyone. Theirs is a ministry of love, prayer, and availability, centered on encouraging God’s people. Fred says, It’s important to remember You were custom designed by God to accomplish His purpose,. When your relationship is up to date, You are successful every day by His definition. That perspective has a way of sparking new determination in pastors and churches who sometimes feel they minister in forgotten places. Fred and Marvia see their place on the team with Dirt Roads Network, as Roadside Assistants, and they are excited about the opportunities Dirt Roads Network provides.
Randy Garner
Randy Garner has been the lead pastor and church planter for the last 25 years at Christ Community Church, and out of CCC he planted two other churches and adopted another church to revitalize. Before planting CCC he was pastor at a couple other churches and as an evangelist for a season. He was the Evangelism and Church growth director, now known as CMAD Church Multiplication & Discipleship in the Shenandoah district of the Wesleyan Church. He served on the District board on administration for many years. He also speaks for revivals, camp meetings and retreats.
He has a passion to share Christ with anyone and everyone. He also has a passion to encourage pastors and small churches. He is a certified coach and loves building relationships. He has been a police and fire chaplain for over 20 years and still serves as a hospital chaplain along with many other leadership roles. He is transitioning from the lead pastor of CCC to a team role with Dirt Road Network and is looking forward to serving in his new role in Kingdom work.
Randy has been married for 45 years to his lovely wife Cindy. They make their home in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Marilyn Searcey
Marilyn comes to Dirt Roads Network, not really from a dirt road, but more likely through a waterway, as she lives and ministers on the Eastern Shore Delmarva Peninsula, surrounded by ocean, bays, canals, rivers, and creeks. She understands the unique characteristics of the small town where she lives and pastors the community through Renovate Church. Serving people has been her passion, as a pastor and through her first career as a Social Worker. The marriage of her social work experience and her heart to share the Gospel have led her and her congregation to serve their community and share Jesus in many different ways. Just get her talking about it. She's got stories.Marilyn is co-vocational, or you might even say tri-vocational. In addition to pastoring Renovate Church, she also teaches Social Work at a local university, and she is an adjunct instructor for Wesley Seminary.