About Us

Meet the team at Recentered Group.


ABOUT

The Recentered Story

In 2016, Recentered Group was born from the church’s growing need to recenter on Jesus’ two priorities—making disciples and loving one another. Since that time, we have helped, encouraged, equipped, and inspired numerous pastors, missionaries, church leaders and boards, and individual believers with the message and delivery on how the Great Commission and Great Commandment can help churches and followers of Christ get healthy and thrive.

Mission

By focusing on the great commandment to love one another, we aim to encourage and equip Christian leaders to build and maintain high trust cultures rooted in grace where discipleship thrives.

Vision

Recentered Group is a non-profit ministry that seeks to equip Christian leaders to build high trust cultures where discipleship thrives. We do this by drawing them back to what matters most to Jesus–loving one another and making disciples. We believe that grace changes everything, and leaders do not have to live lonely and weary lives. We aim to demonstrate in practical ways how trusting God with their ministry by living counter culturally to the pressures that distract from Jesus' priorities will bring sustainable spiritual growth.


MEET

 
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Ed’s been blessed to be married to Judy for 52 years. They have three adult children and nine grandchildren. They reside in Southern California.

Ed Underwood

Pastor, Author, and a shepherd to shepherds

In 2015, Ed knew God was leading him to transition out of leading the historic Church of the Open Door—a life-altering mission. God was asking Ed to leverage his leadership experiences as a fireman for the U.S. Forest Service, an Army officer, and four decades of leading churches to serve the Body of Christ at large.

What had been incubating in his heart as he equipped leaders, encouraged pastors, taught the Bible in seminaries, Bible schools, and conferences, was the need to recenter the church to Jesus’ two priorities—making disciples and loving one another.

Recentered Group was born in 2016 with Ed as the Executive Officer. He describes himself as “a shepherd to shepherds.” Since then, he has helped numerous pastors and church leadership teams to recenter their ministries.

As God leads, he continues to work as a guest pastor, speaker, and author.

Brenda Konoske

Brenda and her husband Charlie serve in several volunteer capacities at Church of the Open Door where they became members in 2005 while Ed was lead pastor. It was here that they experienced the transforming power of grace released in a healthy community. She brings administrative skills from her experience in corporate, government, and nonprofit settings. As a former missionary kid whose heart is still dedicated to the great commission, she is passionate about our mission.

Executive Assistant

The Konoskes have four children and a few precious babies they stay in touch with from their time as foster parents.

Meet the Recentered Board

 
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Dave & Joni Burchett

Dave Burchett started his career as a disc jockey in Ohio and later moved into sports broadcasting. An Emmy Award-winning television sports director, he directed events ranging from baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan’s sixth no-hit game to the Summer Olympics before retiring in 2019. He is the author of Grunt the Runt Finds His Purpose, Between the White Lines, Stay: Lessons My Dogs Taught Me about Life, Loss, and Grace, When Bad Christians Happen to Good People, and Bring ’Em Back Alive. Dave writes honestly and authentically out of his personal experience. His wife Joni balanced raising three boys, working in Special Education, and getting a Masters in Educational Administration from Texas A&M. She had a 25-year career as a Special Ed Coordinator in Garland, Texas before retiring to enjoy her grandkids. Dave and Joni live in Murphy, Texas and have three adult sons, six grandchildren and a rescued Labrador.


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Mike & Heidi Mitchell

Before Mike retired he accumulated 35 years of experience in the footwear and apparel industries most recently as the Senior Sales Director of ASICS America. He started two companies both of which service the retail trade with an assortment of sporting goods products. Mike and Heidi have been married for over four decades and have served on leadership teams and as disciple-makers in several churches. They have three boys and five grandchildren. Our board is divided because Mike is a passionate USC Trojan supporter and played football on the National Championship 1972 team. Mike and Heidi live in Newport Beach, California, and enjoy travelling and being active in sports.


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Lee Ann Jackson

Lee Ann has served for three decades at Ambassador Advertising as a Senior Marketing Strategist, also heading up the social media team. Before coming to Ambassador, Lee Ann served Focus on the Family on their marketing team. A mom of three adult children, Lee Ann and her family are very much a part of the ministry outreach at Church of the Open Door in Glendora. Lee Ann is an avid UCLA Bruin fan (her alma mater) and recently received her Mini-MBA in Social Media Marketing from Rutgers Business School.