RU Staff

Steve Curington- President

Steven Curington is the husband of Lori and the father of their five children: Charity, Chase, Channing, Chance, and Cherish. He is the founder of Reformers Unanimous, International, a faith-based, local-church discipleship program that ministers to the addicted, both within and without the body of Christ.

Steven travels extensively, presenting the ministry and starting chapters of this fast-growing support group and discipleship classes in Bible-preaching  churches all over the world. He also holds Regional Training Conferences for churches to meet the needs of the addicted in their own communities. He is a popular conference speaker and is available for meetings on the hidden life. 

Dr. Paul Kingsbury - Chairman

Dr. Paul Kingsbury was raised in a Christian home and came to know the Lord Jesus as his personal Savior at five years of age. At sixteen he surrendered to serve Christ with his life under the preaching ministry of Dr. Jack Hyles of Hammond, Indiana. He began preaching in jails, nursing homes and rescue missions. He attended Maranatha Baptist Bible College and graduated from Hyles-Anderson College in 1976.

 While in Bible College training for the ministry, Dr. Kingsbury was introduced to the ministries of North Love Baptist Church in Rockford Illinois, near the city of Chicago. Becoming a member of North Love in 1972, Brother Kingsbury served and was mentored under the ministry of Dr. James Alley.

 Dr. Kingsbury has been the senior pastor of North Love since 1982, with a congregation that has grown to nine hundred regular attending members.

 Dr. Kingsbury has been privileged to preach across the United States and in more than two dozen foreign countries in his thirty- six years of ministry. He and his wife Dianne have twelve children, all of whom are serving Christ with their lives, as well as four grandchildren.

 

Dr. Ed Crowder -Director of Education

Ed Crowder has been in field of Christian education for over 30 years. He attended Southern Baptist Seminary in Lousiville, Kentucky earning a Doctorate in Religious Education. In addition he has a PhD, and a masters degree in graphics design, and he has been a key element in the development of educational curricula in several Christian colleges.

Dr. Crowder brings a wealth of educational ability to the Schools of Discipleship. He is involved with oversight of our discipleship, and educational programs.

 

 

Ben Burks - International Director

In 2001, Brother Burks attended the first conference in Rockford, Illinois hosted by Reformers Unanimous. He left Rockford with an intense desire to go home to Virginia and reach the addicted within his community.  He began a chapter in Virginia shortly after returning home from that conference.  His heart was stirred to reach the addicted not only in that community, but also across America.  God led him and his family to Rockford, Illinois in 2003, only two years after attending that conference, to become the International Director of the fastest growing addiction ministry in the United States.   

   
Brother Burks is a Bible school graduate and has worked as an Assistant Pastor, Senior Pastor, and Staff Evangelist.  He has been in ministry since 1984, and has watched through the years as family, friends, and acquaintances have had their lives wrecked because of the many addictions that Satan uses to destroy lives.  He has seen the destruction up close and from afar, and grew tired of watching lives and families destroyed.  God has given to him a burden and a tool to help people who are held captive by their addictions or apathy.  “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)