Dennie Dowell Patton
Author, Founder
Dennie, along with her now deceased husband, Howie, developed CTO and authored the original materials that now are comprised in the majority of the CTO Studies. She continues to disciple, train and write new studies with her husband, Tom Patton.
Email: dennie@ctoministries.org
Randy Murphy
Executive Director
Randy serves as the full-time Executive Director over CTO Ministries, giving vision, direction and oversight of all aspects of the ministry. He is also involved in teaching, training and coaching key leaders. Randy also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Email: randy@ctoministries.org
Mike Dunford
Associate Director
Mike serves as associate director and his involvement is varied and broad. With 20 years of youth pastor experience, Mike and his wife Lorianne bring a unique perspective in discipling couples and reaching the next generation with the Gospel message. His primary focus with CTO Ministries is communications and the development of a focused strategy to take the key discipleship principles of scripture to the next generation.
Email: mike@ctoministries.org
Gingi Cullipher
Administrative Assistant
Gingi is serving full time as an administrative assistant to the ministry and is excited to be part of the team. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University and has spent the past several years working in children’s theater and administrative roles at schools and businesses. She is looking forward to using her gifts for God’s Kingdom.
Email: gingi@ctoministries.org
Whitney Magnusson
Administration
Whitney serves in a part-time capacity deftly managing the multiple administrative details necessary to keep CTO functioning smoothly. With a strong background in marketing and accounting, she frees the CTO leadership team to focus on ministry architecting, content development and key leader training.
Email : whitney@ctoministries.org
Aaron Greer
Media Director
Aaron Greer currently serves as Media Director for several non-profit ministries. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Hope College and an Associate’s degree from Compass College. Aaron has created several award winning commercials, directed feature films, and completed the first season of his show, The Watchers. His holiday film A Soldier For Christmas will premiere in 2024 and other projects are in development.
Email: aaron@ctoministries.org
Janet Murphy
Editing, Shipping
Janet fills and ships all orders and requests for CTO materials. Her background in editing for Zondervan uniquely equips her to serve as an editor on our content development team. Janet disciples individuals and also partners with Randy to disciple and train key couples. In addition, she employs her gifts of hospitality as host to the many CTO friends who visit the Phoenix area.
Email: janet@ctoministries.org
Tom Patton
Director of International Ministries
Tom is married to Dennie and in addition to working together as a team in discipling, training and writing, he oversees all international ministries and curriculum translations.
Email: tom@ctoministries.org
Glenda Miller
Accounting
Glenda is retired with four children and five wonderful grand kids. A CPA, she has worked in accounting for non profits the past 15 years. Before that she worked in tax accounting and audit, ran a daycare, home-schooled three children, and lived a busy life. In retirement, she enjoys working just a few days a week and traveling more while allowing time to attend soccer, baseball, talent shows and school plays.
Email: glenda@ctoministries.org
Pat and Jolene Braddy
Training Team
With many years of pastoral experience, Pat and Jolene disciple and train key pastor’s and leaders nationally both on location and via video conferencing. They also serve as the key contact couple for Northern Colorado. Jolene brings many years of experience in working with women as a pastor’s wife and her giftedness in administration.
Our Board
Tim Duensing
Board President
Tim has been actively discipling for 16 years and has served as discipleship pastor at QuadCity Christian Church. He currently serves as president of the CTO board. His history as church leader, business owner and medical physician brings a wide range of knowledge and experience to the CTO board. Since retiring, he is active in a multitude of volunteer opportunities.
Email: timduensing@gmail.com
Chuck Oltman
Director of Curriculum, Board Vice-President
Chuck volunteers as overseer the curriculum development for CTO and has given many hours of his personal time to designing and formatting the Three-Part Discipleship series. Chuck is an elder at his church and he and his wife Isabel are also involved in discipleship at the leadership level.
Carrie Herrington
Board Secretary
Carrie is honored to serve as the board secretary. With her husband, Chris, a pastor for over twenty years, she works within Likewise Worship, providing care and coaching to worship leaders nationwide utilizing the CTO studies. Homeschooling their three children has been a central focus for Carrie, but she also thrives on practicing hospitality and using her strong administrative skills. Carrie looks forward to contributing her expertise to CTO’s mission
Ruth Koscak
Board Treasurer
Ruth is serving as CTO board treasurer. She and her husband have owned and operated their company for over 25 years and her experience in accounting, financial management and operations offers helpful insight into this role. She has been greatly impacted personally by God’s transforming truth and power through CTO and is excited and blessed to be actively discipling others. She is the mother of six children and has a heart for Next-gen and volunteers at her church in this capacity.
Justin Unger
Board Member
Justin is the founder and president of Likewise Worship, a ministry that serves and preserves worship leaders and their families across the country. CTO has been a huge part of the spiritual foundation in Justin’s life and is now a core tool and resource that he and his team use to disciple and care for the ministry leaders. Justin, his wife of 20 years and their four children reside in Huntingdon Beach CA.