Jeanine McCreary grew up in Sunnyvale, CA, graduated from De Anza College with an AA in Economics in1987 and transferred to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in 1990. Loving the beautiful Central Coast she lived there until 1997. After moving back to Silicon Valley as a new Christian with her two daughters, she began attending The River Church Community in 1998. She attended the 11-week Healing Path session in 2006 that deeply changed her life. She continues on her healing journey with the love and grace of Jesus.

Jeanine spent most of her career as an Office Manager and then an HR Benefits Specialist in high tech at HP, Agilent Technologies and Cisco Systems. Currently, she is a stay at home wife, mom and new grandma. Her strongest spiritual gifting is in administration and hospitality. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Healing Path Ministries as well as handling the day to day bookkeeping duties, event planning and is the liaison with our professional support team. Jeanine loves to cook, garden and exercise.

Mike Dunn came to faith in Christ in 1975 during the vibrant years of the Jesus Movement, an experience that shaped the trajectory of his life. His professional path took him into the high‑tech world, with significant roles at Apple, Netscape, AOL, Palm, Joby Aviation and several startups. Alongside his wife, Kathy, he raised four children and is now embracing the joy of being a grandparent.

Since moving to Santa Cruz in 2000, Mike has invested deeply in local church life. At Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, he served as a pastoral elder. His journey has also included seasons at Vintage Faith Church and The River Community Church in San Jose. He now worships at Tradewinds in Soquel.

Mike has long been drawn to church planting and leadership, serving as a core leader in new church communities in both San Francisco and Austin. In 2015, he completed a master’s degree from Fuller Seminary’s School of Theology. Having recently retired from a long career in technology, he is learning how to be retired.

Grant Jenks grew up in the United Methodist Church in the California, Bay Area. During college he connected with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at UCLA and lead campus ministries. He later lead Christian 12-Step Programs as part of Celebrate Recovery for five years. In that same time, he and his wife became members at Mount Zion Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist Church in Seattle. In 2012, he moved to Atlanta and participated in Mission Year, a year-long urban ministry program focused on incarnational Christian service. He then moved back to the Bay Area and joined the River Church Community. He has served there as a small group leader and volunteer youth leader over the last eight years.