founders, President
Ryan and julie christian
Ryan and Julie are the founders of Hideout Ministries. They live in North Carolina with their beagle, Tucker. They have two daughters Katie (23) + Eric (husband) and Jessica (21). Ryan has been in full-time ministry for 25 years. He served as a youth pastor and worship leader for three years before he returned to Christian camping as the Executive Director of Quaker Ridge Camp and Conference Center for nine years. He then went on to become the Executive Director/Developer of Rainbow Falls Resort properties, a private fishing club. They also spent six years building homes with their small company, Cottage Creek Living to provide income for their family while serving with Hideout. Ryan and Julie have considered it a joy to serve in the local church. Ryan served as a shepherding elder and Julie as a listener, teacher, and encourager to women. Through deep valleys and defining deserts Christ has carried this fragile family, breathing into them encouragement, hope, and their very life. One of the results has been a heart pounding passion to care for the hearts of missionary couples, so their souls are restored and they can return to the places they serve around the world.
Chairman of the Board
dave dunning
Dave Dunning served as Fluor Corporation's Executive Vice President for business development and strategy. In this role he led the company's sales, marketing, corporate affairs, government relations, and corporate strategic functions across all Fluor business lines globally. Previously, Dave served as SVP, business development for the power generation business, as well as in numerous executive and leadership roles within operations, strategic planning and sales. He has more than 41 years of direct global industry experience including 38 years of service with Fluor.
Dave served as the chairmen for Fluor's corporate sales board, and was a member of the executive management team. He also served on the following Fluor committees: real estate, investment/mergers and acquisitions, Fluor/global benefits committees, the Fluor foundation, and the construction board. He currently sits on the board of directors of Fluor's nuscale small modular reactor entity, and recently vacated his seat on the United States Energy Association BOD, the North American Advisory Board for Schneider Electric, and the Foundation Board for East Stroudsburg University.
He is a member of Church at Charlotte and married to Chris with three daughters and seven grandchildren.
board member
Bruce mcdonald
Bruce and his wife Beverly have been in full time ministry for over 45 years. Bruce began this adventure as a youth pastor then college pastor before they became missionaries with the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism. (ABWE) They began their ministry as church planters and then in 1987 they started a ministry for professional athletes where Bruce served as the Chaplain for the Philidelphia 76ers basketball team. Their next assignment was in Colorado where they are currently involved in Coach Ministries. Bruce and Bev help encourage and support missionaries and pastors in their walk of faith and their service for God. Bruce is an author and speaker who travels around the world to feed hungry souls with the word of God.
They have three children and four grandchildren.
board member
Mike Shafer
Mike Schafer has served in pastoral ministry for over 35 years. For almost three decades he was the senior pastor for various churches in West Texas. In 2008 Mike and his wife Sandy took an 8-year break from local church ministry to serve as retreat leaders for SonScape Retreats in Colorado and Tennessee. In this role, they were pastoring those in full-time ministry through teaching, counseling, and coaching. In the summer of 2016 Mike returned to local church ministry and is currently a pastor in Plainview, Texas.
Mike’s passion has always been growing spiritually healthy churches that reach the lost and have a kingdom impact on their community. Mike’s ministry has been greatly shaped by a life-changing journey he experienced with God while in his thirties. During a week-long spiritual retreat, the Holy Spirit revealed to Mike some deeper issues in his soul that were greatly affecting his personal life and his ministry. Since that time Mike has been passionate about getting people to look below the surface of their lives to see what God wants to do in the depths of their souls.
The Schafer’s have been married over 35 years and have two sons and two grandchildren.
Board member
Don broeils
Don attended North Carolina State University, where he received his degree in electrical engineering. He began his career with the American Can Company as a plant engineer in the Pulp & Paper business. In 1977, Don joined Duke Energy in the Plant Betterment division of the design engineering department. In this role, he was responsible for scoping, estimating and engineering capital upgrade projects for Duke’s nuclear, coal and hydroelectric generating assets.
In 1984, Don joined the business development group of Duke’s Management and Technical Services (MATS) division, in which engineering and construction services were offered to Clients outside of Duke for the first time in the company’s history. Following this assignment, Don led the electrical engineering design for various projects for Duke Engineering & Services, the successor business unit to MATS.
In 1989, Don joined Duke/Fluor Daniel, where he spent 15 years in various roles including engineering management, proposal management, and project management. He joined Fluor in 2004, taking the helm of the Plant Betterment business in Power. In 2012, Don became vice president of Power’s Fossil Generation & Transmission business, and he assumed his last role with Fluor in 2013 to retiree in 2018 as the vice of operations of the Power business line.
Don is married and has two daughters and six grandchildren. He is an active member of First Baptist Church of Indian Trail in North Carolina and has been a Board member for the past eleven years with Broken Hearts Ministries
Board member
Mark hutchins
Mark and his wife Donna reside in Evesham Township, NJ. Both Mark and Donna are actively involved in ministry as members of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Cherry Hill, New Jersey where Mark serves as a Ruling Elder. Mark is a youth Sunday school teacher while committed also to the men’s ministries and Bible studies leadership team for over 20 years at Covenant. He actively led, organized, and served in a variety of mission support roles which include facilitating field missionary correspondence reports to the congregation and budget support planning for both domestic and international missionaries.
Mark has served on short term mission trips as a leader and team member. He has led teams with financial, transportation and team devotional planning. In 2005, Mark was a critical team organizer promoting multiple mission support trips to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi following the destruction from Hurricane Katrina. These teams supported construction projects and local church ministry needs to communities devastated by the storm.
Professionally Mark has been a computer field technician for over 36 years. He has been with IBM the past 25 years as a System Service Representative serving private and state information system clients throughout New Jersey.
Mark and Donna have been blessed with three grown children and six grandchildren whom are always ready to embark on the next great adventure with their grandparents.