Board of Trustees
Wally Martinson, Chair
Robyn Koch-Schumaker, Treasurer
Kim Griffith
Andrea Rogers
Chuck Squeri
Steve Stroud
Organizational Go Team
Grant Edwards, President
Ellen Dudney, Executive Director
Sharon Wildman, Director of Programming
Robyn Koch-Schumaker, Treasurer
Barbara Edwards, Design Development
Jerry Dudney, Technology Design and Support
Heather Ives, Administrative Assistance
Anie Paujana, Social Media Design
Administrative Team
Andrea Rogers
Kim Griffith
Robyn Koch-Schumaker
Ellen Dudney
Programming Team
Sharon Wildman
Steve Stroud
Grant Edwards
David Stroud
Jerry Dudney
Development and Communications (DevComm) Team
Grant Edwards
Barbara Edwards
Monte Zinn
Ellen Dudney
Wally Martinson
John Balzar
Robyn Koch-Schumaker
Jeff Horne
Jennifer Jones
Grant Edwards
Founder
Grant Edwards served as Senior Pastor of Fellowship Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, for 49 years.
His ministry began during the Jesus Movement during the early 1970s when he led a group of newly converted, scraggly, non-conforming hippies to start a ministry called the One Way House. This ministry grew into Fellowship Christian Church.
Over the past decades, Grant has traveled internationally over 90 times, and throughout the USA teaching First Steps Conversations, a discipleship curriculum, along with other materials. His interest in discipleship began when he realized that 80 percent of those accepting Jesus walked away from faithfulness soon after conversion. His book, First Steps Conversations, is a 49-year researched and practiced one-on-one discipleship plan that reverses this trend.
Grant writes a six-days-per-week blog called Interruptions that focuses on grace, following Jesus, and practices for living with peace, power, and provision in difficult times.
Focusing on training in discipleship and writing blog posts, Grant is now following a calling to be a “good steward of the teaching material” that God has given to him.
Ellen Dudney
Director
Ellen Dudney joined the Discipling Another team in April of 2021, in the role of volunteer Executive Director. She is a Registered Nurse who has served in leadership roles in Stephen Ministries (one-on-one Christian caregiving), and served as both Nurse Manager and Executive Director at the Pregnancy Resource Clinic of Clark County for 10 years.
Ellen and her husband, Dr. Jerry Dudney, attend Fellowship Church, and are both passionate about discipleship. They have two daughters and one grandson.