Global Youth Ministry Network

New Staff Information for
Ken Aringo and Matt Pounds Included Below

Chris Davis, Executive Director
Global Youth Ministry Network

GYMN’s founder and current Executive Director, Chris Davis is an experienced youth pastor, with over 18 years invested in youth ministry. Chris has worked in churches ranging from 100 to over 2200 in attendance, along with several years experience in para-church youth ministries.

Chris mixes academic credentials with practical experience. Since obtaining a Masters Degree in Christian Education-Youth Ministry, Chris has been the Founder and Executive Director of Global Youth Ministry Network. He and the GYMN staff have trained over 7200 youth leaders on five continents. Chris’s passion is equipping youth leaders internationally in a practical and purposeful manner. Chris, along with the GYMN staff, have also written several resource books on youth ministry including, “Basic Training Discipleship” and “Connection Points” for youth leaders.

Matt Pounds, Director of Management

Matt Pounds joins GYMN’s staff in the Ohio based international office after serving in industry for over 28 years. Matt’s vocational history includes: management, engineering, problem solving, and running his own business. He and his wife Bonnie have been active in missions through their local church in North Central Ohio for many years. They and their children have experienced short-term missions work overseas coupled with long term partnerships at home. They are now looking forward to additional mission opportunities in Africa, Asia and wherever GYMN’s mission expands.

Matt brings his management skills and ministry passions together to serve God, the GYMN staff and the far reaching network of young people around the globe. In addition to missions involvement, Matt has accumulated experiences as an elder, trustee, discipleship leader, coordinator of children’s ministry, small groups leadership, counseling, teaching, coaching and has been active on praise and worship teams.

Matt and Bonnie have raised two daughters, a son, and three young ladies needing a home while away from home.

Matt says, “I was the result of God using a youth leader who was training his youth to evangelize, and they chose me.”

Ken Aringo, Director, GYMN Africa

Ken Aringo is a seasoned youth minister and evangelist. A much sought for motivational speaker and a Pan-African leader.

“I met the Lord Jesus Christ one beautiful evening in the year 1990 while still a student in high school…it happened during our evening family devotion time as it was the tradition in our deeply religious family.” This was the best decision Ken ever made in his life as he puts it, and adds that he has never regretted that decision.

Ken is a graduate of East Africa School of Theology and is a licensed lay-minister in his local church in Nairobi-Kenya. Ken has worked extensively with youth in Africa especially through Kenya Youth for Christ where he served as the Director of Bible Clubs in high schools and colleges.

“My passion for training/equipping and mentoring youth workers was birthed when I went through a Trainer of Trainers (TOT) Course with the Campus Crusade for Christ.” Ken is married to a lovely woman-Ruth, and they are blessed with two sons; Victor and Amani (Shalom). Together they founded a para-church youth mentoring ministry-Preserving Human Dignity (PHD), registered in Kenya as a constituent program of TACTAFRICA-a Non-Governmental Organization.

Ken comes to GYMN excited to be part of the great team of God’s servants committed to equipping youth leaders internationally with a global touch.

Geraldine “Ghie” Morado Qaiser, Director,

GYMN Asia

I was raised in a big family who was aware that there is God but not necessarily having Him involved in our individual lives. We were taught and trained by life’s difficulties to be tough, independent, hardworking, isolated and religious. After 4 years of wrestling with God, I finally surrendered my self-righteousness, bitterness, self-defenses and ambitions to Him. I was then exposed to campus and junior church ministries.

I’ve been very active with campus involvement both in high school and in college. I had the privilege of serving other students more effectively through small group strategies when I was appointed as the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) chapter president. Ever since this time, I love leading and being a part of small groups.

I thank God that He blessed me with people who led me to Him, discipled me, mentored me, showed me the joy of serving Him through the gifts He had entrusted us, and the rewards of touching and influencing other people’s lives. These are the very reasons why I was so attracted to GYMN. In GYMN’s trainings, all these things are taught and given importance. I believe in the significant role they play in one’s life. My life has never been the same.

I joined GYMN full time in February 2003. I’ve been doing trainings in the Philippines and to other Asian countries this year and the following. I am a teacher by profession and had taken masters degree in education, major in guidance & counseling.

GYMN also involves other staff in the areas of administration. Those serving in the USA/International office are Teresa McQuate and Penny Davis. In Kenya, Jane Gummoh administers the details of the Africa work. In the Philippines, Bennette Pena assists with adminstrative duties as well as Alvan and Ethel Tauli who serve as Philippines Training Coordinators. Without the help and dedicated work of this administrative staff, the work of equipping youth leaders internationally would not occur.