Pastor Greider grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He later transferred and graduated from Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas. Upon graduation he worked for the Bell and Howell Education Group in regional sales management. A few years later he was given an opportunity to serve at his denominational headquarters in southern California in developing an international youth education program. After meeting his wife in California, they moved to Milwaukee, WI, where he served as the associate pastor for seven years. In 1987 his family moved to West Virginia to pastor at the Rock of Grace Church in Huntington, WV. Mike lives in Kenova, WV, with his wife Dana and their daughter, Michelle. His son, Daniel, his wife and two children live in Huntington, WV. His son, David, his wife and two children live in Los Angeles, CA.
Today he continues to serve Rock of Grace Church which now has a campus in Huntington, WV, and Louisa, KY. Both congregations are affiliated with Grace Communion International.
Since 1997 Pastor Mike has served as the founder and director of Mission Tri-State (missiontristate.org). Mission Tri-State is a group of pastors from across the Greater Huntington and Ashland area who are working together for community transformation. Mission Tri-State hosts weekly pastor prayer meetings, intercessors meetings and pray for community leaders monthly. Pastor Mike serves as President of Arise West Virginia (arisewv.com). This is a statewide network of transformational leaders committed to their motto “Advancing the Kingdom, Transforming Communities”. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of REACH-Cabell County and REACH-West Virginia. This is a community based collaborative initiative to deal with drug addiction (reach.com).
Reverend Junius Lewis is a resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, and was an outstanding basketball player for West Virginia University. He also played professional basketball in France. Junius is the Senior Pastor of Greater Love Family Outreach Ministry in Morgantown. Additionally, he is the leader of the Pastors Prayer Fellowship a group of pastors committed to serving one another and seeing revival in Mon County. He is married to Rebecca Lewis and they have three children. His passion is see the body of Christ healed, reconciled, and committed to serving one another.
Mitchell Bias was born in South Williamson, Kentucky, just across the river from Mingo County, West Virginia. He is a lifelong resident of Delbarton, a little coal town in Mingo County, where he serves as Senior Pastor of Regional Church, formerly Delbarton Church of God.
Mitchells grandfather, the late W. H. Compton, served as Pastor of the Delbarton Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), from 1939 to 1992---a record-setting tenure in the denomination. Mitch began his ministry as Youth Pastor on June 1, 1979, under the mentorship of his grandfather. In 1986 he assumed the role of Associate Pastor, and in May 1992, upon Pastor Comptons retirement, he was unanimously elected to serve the church as Senior Pastor.
Mitch and his wife Regina have been married since 1977. They are blessed to have three children--a son, Eric and wife, Melissa; also two teen and preteen daughters, Katie and Kassia. Their children are the joy of their lives. Mitch is an ordained Bishop with the Church of God (1985); he also currently serves on the WV Church of God State Council as well as District Overseer to the southwestern counties of West Virginia. Regina serves as an Associate Pastor and Administrator of Regional Christian School.
In over thirty years of ministry at Regional Church, Mitchell and Regina Bias have been blessed to see tremendous growth and expansion. In a rural community with a population of only 400, Regional Church has a constituency of over 600. The church involves approximately 40 ministries including: Regional Christian, a K4-12th grade school; a weekly TV telecast, Regional Restoration, on internet and local cable; Zion Ministries, a global missions outreach ministering in such countries as Israel and the Ukraine; House of Hope, a transitional housing ministry; and numerous outreaches to children and youth in the region. Regional Church is an apostolic, elder-led ministry, served by a full-time staff of five.
True to the vision imparted by his late grandfather to be married to the land, Mitchell Bias is likewise committed to remain planted in this region of Appalachia. Not only is he determined to bear fruit at Regional Church, but he also has a passion for unity and growth among all Bible-believing churches, pastors and leaders. He serves in helping to lead The Church in The Mountains, a prayer ministry involving a coalition of pastors and church leaders in the Mingo-Pike area. This rich fellowship of pastors has melted the traditional boundaries of denominational lines, meeting each Tuesday morning for prayer and relationship-building.
Pastor Rodney Lord is a native of Maine. After completing his associate degree in Engineering Technology at the University of Maine he attended and graduated from Christ for The Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas. He served 11 years as an associate at Church of The King in Dallas. His wife Stephanie (Wells) Lord, was born and raised in Vienna, W.V., they have seven children.
Rodney and Stephanie were part of a church planting team in Huntington, WV for three years before moving to Marietta in 1997 to become part of the staff of Valley Harvest Church where he serves as Sr. Leader.
Rodney serves AriseWV and Awake 88, an apostolic council for Ohio. Valley Harvest Church is part of a network of churches called the Federation of Ministers and Churches International where Rodney serves as part of the apostolic council.
Ronnie and Brean Stewart are on staff at Christ Temple Church in Huntington, WV as the pastor of Inside Out Youth Ministries, dedicated toward raising up confident revolutionaries for Christ in middle and senior high as well as young adults.
In addition to this role, Ronnie is also affiliated with the Breaker Company; a national organization focused on awakening biblical reform and developing a generation that will take their place in leading culture back to a nation of righteousness and justice. Finally, Ronnie serves as youth coordinator in Mission Tri-State and Pray WV focused on believing God for transformational revival in our state. His greatest heart is to see this young generation fall passionately in love with Jesus Christ, realize their identity in Him, and display that love and power in every area of their lives. He believes this is the generation that will see a dramatic turn toward the reality of Jesus Christ with young and old flowing together as one. Ronnie and Brean have a son named Brycen and a son named Rowan.
Pastor Darrell Buttram, Jr. is a third generation pentecostal pastor with a heart for evangelism. He is an ordained bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), for which he serves as senior pastor, a distict overseer, and a short term missionary evangelist.
He is a graduate of West Coast Christian College in Fresno, CA, where he received a B.A. in Christian Ministries with a Pastoral Emphasis. He has served in several churches across the country and pastored in Eastern North Carolina before receiving the call to Huntington, in August of 2001.
Pastor Darrell has been called for "such a time as this", and seeks to both win and pastor the city for Christ.
Since 1995, Pastor Darrell has been assisted in life and ministry by his lovely wife Monica. Together they have ministered on three continents, and have been blessed to win hundreds of individuals to Christ.
Their three children, Joshua, Ian and Melody, are their first calling. They believe bringing glory to the Lord in the home is the first step to showing the glory of the Lord to the world.
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