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Meet the Global Teen Challenge Team
Jerry Nance
President and CEO
 Jerry Nance is one of those rare individuals who cross our path all too infrequently, yet our lives are powerfully impacted for having known them. He has all the impressive academic qualifications: a B.S. in Religious Studies from Southwestern College, his Masters in Counseling from Barry University, and a PhD in Philosophy, Leadership and Education with a specialization in Counseling from Barry University, but that's not who Jerry Nance is. The one word which best describes Jerry is "servant."
Whether as an associate pastor or the senior pastor of a local church, or Crusade Associate for David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge, Jerry has lived out Christ's example of servant leadership. His compassion for those who struggle with drug addiction compels him to develop multiple inner city outreaches and now to assist the leadership for centers in various countries around the world. He continues to serve on regional and national boards.
Beginning with his leadership as Executive Director of Teen Challenge of Florida / Georgia in 1991, this ministry has grown to fourteen centers in Florida and five in Georgia, caring for over 985 boys, girls, men and women.
Jerry and his wife Libby are proud to be the parents of three grown children and four grandchildren.
Dave & Patty Batty
Dave - Chief Operating Officer
Patty - Executive Assistant
 Dave and Patty Batty joined the Global Teen Challenge organization in 2007, bringing with them close to 40 years of ministry experience in Teen Challenge. At Global Patty serves as Executive Assistant to Jerry Nance, president of Global Teen Challenge. Dave serves as Director of Operations.
Dave & Patty first connected with Teen Challenge as volunteers, working at the center in Philadelphia, PA, Patty in 1967 and Dave in 1968. They came to Teen Challenge in Brooklyn, NY in 1971 where Patty served as Executive Secretary to Don Wilkerson. While working at Teen Challenge in Brooklyn, NY from 1971-1975 Dave began writing the curriculum used in Teen Challenge. From 1977 to1997 he served as the Teen Challenge National Curriculum Coordinator, developing the Christian discipleship curriculum used in Teen Challenge both in the USA and internationally.
Dave served as the Executive Director of Teen Challenge in Brooklyn, NY from1997 to 2007. Patty served as a mentor and counselor during their 10 years in New York City. Dave has served as an international conference speaker for Teen Challenge for the past 30 years. Dave and Patty have 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren.
Duane & Cari Henders
Global Teen Challenge Regional Representative
Latin America and Caribbean
 Reverend Duane Henders is an Assemblies of God foreign missionary working with the Global Teen Challenge ministry. Duane and his wife Cari have been involved in Teen Challenge ministry since 1969, both in the United States and overseas. For 9 years in the 1970’s, the Henders directed the Teen Challenge men's recovery center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Henders ministered in Portugal for 16 years where they helped start a national Teen Challenge ministry that now has about 170 youth in the 6 resident programs, and a network of 38 coffeehouses across the nation. Duane and Cari also served at the Assemblies of God Mount Hope Bible Institute as teachers, Deans of Students, and Director.
Since 1999 the Henders have been working as foreign missionaries with Global Teen Challenge, helping to establish Teen Challenge centers in countries that request help in combating the spread of drugs. They have helped to establish the Teen Challenge ministries in Portugal, Trinidad, Romania, Ireland, Aruba, Guinea Bissau, Angola and Honduras, and are now working to establish Teen Challenge in Guyana, Grenada, and Suriname. They have also been involved in training staff for many countries in Africa, Europe, Central America and the Far East.
“Over the years,” Duane shares, “we have seen hundreds of lives delivered from drug and alcohol addictions. We know God changes lives! As Global Teen Challenge receives requests from countries appealing for help with their addiction problems, we travel there to preach, motivate, organize and train people in order to set up a rehabilitation center. We work with churches, Bible colleges, government agencies, pastors, and interested individuals. Our goal is to identify people who God is calling to this ministry and equip them to carry it out.”
Bernie and Cathy Gillott
Special Project Coordinator
 Bernie and Cathy Gillott have served the Teen Challenge ministry in different capacities for over 30 years, directing operations and development, as well as training and traveling with over 100 different Teen Challenge Choirs on five continents, 47 states of the US and coast to coast in Canada. From residential care to outreach, he has served at Teen Challenge Training Center in Rehrersburg, PA, Teen Challenge Farm in London, Ontario, Canada, and pioneered an inner city Induction center in Newport News, Virginia.
The Gillotts have logged over 1/2 million miles internationally along with their 4 children, appeared on national television, talk radio in the USA and abroad as well as sharing with hundreds of thousands of young people in high schools and outreach. All 3 of their sons are in full time pastoral ministry with the Assemblies of God and their daughter is in full time ministry in Florida, teaching and ministering in music.
Bernie and Cathy are in their 6th year serving as International Representatives for Global Teen Challenge. This partnership puts them at the cutting edge of global ministry with their finger on the pulse of the street. In addition to working globally to establish, encourage, and empower new Teen Challenge centers, they are partnering to release musical outreach teams and choirs around the world.
Thirty-year veterans of the music scene they having recorded and produced over 20 albums and CDs. The desire of their hearts is to see those who where once victims become victorious in their new life in Jesus Christ.
Mike & Kay Zello
Global Teen Challenge Regional
Representative Africa
 Mike has been associated with Teen Challenge since its beginning in 1958, when he worked under David Wilkerson, the organization’s founder. He has directed programs for over 45 years including 5 years at the original center in Brooklyn, New York and 25 years as the founder and executive director of Teen Challenge of Washington, DC. Mike served for many years as a member of the Teen Challenge USA National Board of Directors and as the Eastern Regional representative. He was also the senior pastor of New Life Worship Center, a church he pioneered while directing Teen Challenge of Washington, DC/Maryland. Since 1996 he has worked with Global Teen Challenge and assisted in training hundreds of leaders from around the world and helped to establish Teen Challenge programs in 43 countries. Mike and his wife Kay live in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area. They have 4 children and 11 grandchildren.
Gregg & Linda Fischer
Curriculum Coordinator
 Gregg began working full-time in Teen Challenge ministry in 1981. He has served at Rehrersburg PA, Harrisburg PA, and from 1988 – 2008 at Greater Piedmont Teen Challenge, Greensboro, NC where he served as Program Director.
Gregg has been involved in staff training locally, nationally and internationally since 1986. Since 2004 he has also been a member of the committee revising the Teen Challenge curriculum. Gregg is a graduate of Central Bible College. “It is my joy and passion to help and equip Teen Challenge staff to do the ministry God has called them to do,” says Gregg. “Global Teen Challenge gives me the opportunity to help many more staff who will in turn impact the thousands that are in Teen Challenge worldwide.”
Linda: A graduate of Eastern College in St. Davids, PA,, she has served in a variety of discipleship ministries since 1984. These include an adolescent group home, Teen Challenge as a Personal Studies and GED teacher, and 15 years as Children’s pastor in Greensboro, NC.
She has a passion for missions and has made several trips to South Africa and Siberia and had the opportunity to visit Teen Challenges while in both countries. The Fischers have three children, Emily, Levi, and Annie.
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