President

Dr. Dann Spader is presently serving as President of Global Youth Initiative. As Founder of Sonlife Ministries, for 25 years he served as its Executive Director. He has also served for 12 years in a pastoral role in churches. Ten of these years as a youth pastor and then two years as an interim pastor in a church-planting situation.

Dr. Spader graduated from Moody Bible Institute in 1975 with a B.A. Degree in Evangelism. He received both a M.R.E. and D.Min. at Trinity Seminary in Deerfield Illinois, and has also done graduate work at Wheaton College.

Dann has written over twenty leadership-training manuals, contributed several chapters in books, written numerous articles, and produced six training videos. He has co-written two books with Gary Mayes: Growing a Healthy Church published by Moody Press and The Everyday Commission, published by Harold Shaw Publishers. Dann serves as a consultant to over twenty denominations in the area of youth and church ministry and has done training in over 50 countries around the globe.

Dann and his wife Char have three daughters, Julie, Jamie and Christy. They live in Batavia, Illinois.