Senior Leaders
Senior Leaders
Steve Schultz
Steve graduated High School in Victor, New York in 1971 and later attended one year of college at State University of New York Morrisville. His pursuit of college education was interrupted by the draft notice in 1972. After a short stint in the US army, he entered the business environment and moved to Central Florida. After ten years in the business sector (where he was eventually saved), he discerned the call of God and entered full time ministry in 1982.
His ministry background has been diverse, as he has worked in such positions as associate pastor, minister of helps, evangelistic crusade coordinator, product resource development, and missions director. Each of these positions was an accumulated progressive step towards personal development, as well as a strategic process to broaden and deepen his personal call into the prophetic dimension. From 1991 to 2001, Steve traveled extensively with a key thrust of bringing understanding of the prophetic through teaching and demonstration. He taught and trained hundreds of pastors/leaders and thousands of believers to hear the voice of God and to move in spiritual gifts. At the same time, his acumen and competency in the prophetic continued to enlarge as he ministered in many churches in more than 20 countries.
National and international travel provided an environment for Steve to see and experience a wide scope of ministry philosophy and practice, particularly as it was applied to church development and the emergence of apostolic networks. Combined with the opportunity to peer into diverse streams was also a growing desire to see the Church continue to progressively move forward with the current seasons of God. By the year 1999, a deep dissatisfaction began to manifest as Steve began to see that the existing church-based operating systems would never bring the Church into its pre-ordained place of maturity. (Eph 4:13) This dissatisfaction was not based upon a destructive critical position, but from a clear recognition that church must move into greater accurate scriptural positions. He realized that the emergence of the apostolic movement of the 1990’s was causing a recognition and acceptance of apostolic calling and apostolic grace. He knew it was time for God to begin to bring the church into a season of greater alignment with Kingdom positions.
At the close of 1999, Steve’s pathway crossed with Dr. Noel Woodroffe, an apostolic leader who had built a global network of churches called WBN (World Breakthrough Network). In his quest to see accurate Kingdom building, Steve was arrested by the clear recognizable grace upon Dr. Woodroffe. What he had built thus far was beyond what he had seen inside other networks around the world. The order, structures, mentalities, lifestyles, heart positions built within the members of WBN absolutely spoke of a grace to build accurate human beings. There was no doubt that this connection was an illuminated pathway for accurate relationship, further growth, and correct context for his calling.
Today Steve serves on the Apostolic Core Team of Congress WBN, a synergy of global initiatives focused on effecting human, social and national transformation through the propagation of value-based development principles, patterns and approaches. He also oversees Preparing The Way Network (PTWN), a network of churches related to and inside the Kingdom Community Network (KCN) of Congress-WBN. PTWN is a gathering of like-minded communities and leaders who share the same vision and values. The common thrust of the network is proclaiming and building reformation mentalities and accurate Kingdom communities. Lastly, Steve is also the founder and Manager of TC (The Community), a Kingdom community based in Fayetteville, Arkansas which serves as the creative core for building exportable patterns across PTWN.
Steve and his wife, Diane, have 6 children and 10 grandchildren. Diane not only serves with Steve in managing TC but she is also a full-time real-estate agent with Prime Real Estate, Fayetteville. They reside in West Fork, Arkansas.
Diane Schultz
Diane Schultz has been in Christian ministry most of her adult life. She was saved at the age of 11 and, for the most part, has always had a heart for the things of God. She married her high school sweetheart immediately after graduating from high school, after which they both entered into their freshman year of college at Arkansas Tech University. It was there that Diane was first exposed to a world of believers that did not match the religious background that she had grown up in and yet they demanded her respect—even her envy—because of the purity of their lifestyles. This was the first time that she challenged the fact that perhaps the denomination she had grown up in did not have all the answers (a major breakthrough!). She began to dig into the Scriptures to discover the truth for herself, and in so doing, discovered instead a deep love for the word of God which became a hallmark of her life.
While Diane was going through internal spiritual changes, her new husband was as well. By the end of that first year of college, he felt that he was “called into ministry,” and the two of them transferred from Arkansas Tech to a denominational school in Louisiana. That move, in effect, set them back from the course of enlightenment that they were on back into the denominational system they had always been in.
Six years later, however, they were confronted in a very dramatic way by the Holy Spirit that their religion had diminished. This confrontation led to an immediate departure from the church they were pasturing, back onto the course that they had ignorantly abandoned years before. In a short time, they moved back to their home town in Arkansas and began working in the upper hierarchy of an international ministry which took them all over the United States, and eventually all over the world as ministers.
While in this ministry, Diane developed a reputation as an excellent Bible teacher with a focus on practicality with a touch of humor. Life had been good to her. She had a good, solid family, her children were growing up well, two of them had married and grandchildren were beginning to color her life with new hues of joy. She was planning how to enjoy the “second half” of life when it threw her a curve. Her husband, whom she had been married to for 25 years, suddenly made an about-face, left his wife and the ministry and filed for divorce.
Needless to say, this chain of events rocked Diane’s world to the core. Having always heard that crises will either make you bitter or better, Diane—with the loving support of the Body of Christ—set out on a journey to become better. Turning to the Word, she once again found her strength and direction there, but in a deeper, more personal dimension than she had ever experienced before. During this season of her life, she read a phrase in the book of Job which she laid claim to: “the latter will be better than the first.”
In 2001, Steve and Diane met, and during the Christmas season of that year they married. Once again, Diane was confronted with new dimensions of the word of God and the Church as she had always known it. Steve, as part of the leadership team of the global network, WBN (now Congress-WBN), introduced her to the term “Apostolic Reformation,” a term she had never once encountered in her many years in ministry. That was only one of many terms/concepts that were entirely new to her, but the one thing that captured her heart—just as it had in that first year at Arkansas Tech—was the elevated quality of lifestyle and integrity that Congress-WBN proclaimed and lived.
The next few years—up to the present—Diane watched, learned, studied and enjoyed the effects of the environment of Congress-WBN—namely, the emphasis on individuals leaving their childish ways and mentalities, dying to self and coming to full maturity and so becoming that spotless Bride that Christ is waiting on before declaring the end of this age and the beginning of the next one.
Diane serves wholeheartedly beside Steve in The Community (TC) in Fayetteville, Arkansas and strives to emulate the principles of the Kingdom of God in her personal life as a wife, mother, grandmother, Kingdom Community leader and in her profession as a Realtor. She is convinced that it is the Kingdom of God and the implementation of its principles that will indeed make the latter better than the first.