Helmut Teichert | Executive Director
Helmut Teichert has served more than fifty years in multimedia evangelism, including close work with Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru). After leading Crusade’s Paragon Productions and founding Turning Point Productions, he joined Bright in 1998 to launch the Bright Media Foundation as Executive Director and Creative Producer, producing Bright’s books and videos. In 2003 Larry Chapman presented articles on the evidence for God and for Jesus’ identity to Bright, who enthusiastically agreed to help publish them as the Y-Origins and Y-Jesus magazines. Those magazines became the foundation of JesusOnline Ministries. Helmut has led JesusOnline since 2006 (Executive Director since 2016), carrying that evidence-based gospel onto the internet.
Read Helmut’s full bio
Helmut Teichert has spent more than fifty years in multimedia ministry and evangelistic outreach—much of it in close partnership with the vision of Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru).
From 1973 to 1990 he directed Paragon Productions, Campus Crusade’s multimedia arm, pioneering evangelistic films and presentations used across the movement Bright founded. In 1990 he established Turning Point Productions, taking campus outreach and adult Sunday school curricula to churches and universities.
In 1998 Helmut began working directly with Dr. Bright to structure and launch the Bright Media Foundation. As Executive Director and Creative Producer through Bright’s final years, and then in carrying that publishing vision forward, he oversaw Bright’s books, videos, and a complete module of Bright’s writings for the Logos Bible Study Library.
The content that became JesusOnline began with Christian businessman Larry Chapman, who gathered compelling new evidence for God’s existence and for Jesus’ resurrection and deity. In 2003 Larry Chapman presented articles with evidence for God and for Jesus’ identity to Bill Bright, who enthusiastically decided to help publish the Y-Origins and Y-Jesus magazines. Those magazines became the foundation of JesusOnline Ministries. When the articles went online during the release of The Da Vinci Code, that evidence-based gospel moved onto the internet—the mission field JesusOnline was formed to reach.
Appointed Executive Director of JesusOnline in 2016 (after serving as COO from 2006), Helmut now leads the ministry’s global digital outreach: strategic advertising, evidence-based gospel videos and articles, and discipleship through the JO App. The vision and conviction he shared with Bright still defines the work—give people reasons to believe Jesus is who He claimed to be, invite them to receive Him, and help them follow and share Him.
Helmut lives in Montana with his wife, Laurie. They have a blended family of three daughters and three sons.
Board Leadership
Larry Chapman, Founder & President
Larry served as an elder and mission committee member at Northshore Christian Church in Everett, WA, and helped launch African Evangelical Mission in Togo. He serves on the board of Heart Ministries, a Christian school for troubled girls. In 2000, he helped start South Whidbey Young Life. In 2003, Larry co-authored Y-Origins and Y-Jesus, which launched JesusOnline Ministries. Larry and Marianne, business owners, have four children, ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
Sid Pfaff, Vice President
Sid Pfaff is President and CEO of TAG Insurance & Financial Services and Managing Partner of Client Connect Services, an AI software company. He served as an elder at Central Christian Church in Mesa, AZ, and held various leadership roles in his church. Sid has also served on multiple community boards. He lives in Phoenix with his wife, Sharon, with five children and ten grandchildren. They are members of Rock Point Church in Queen Creek, AZ.
Steven “Ski” Mydynski, Secretary
With a 40-year mechanical engineering career, Ski helped develop the first commercially viable Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) , saving thousands of lives daily. He actively invests in small businesses and real estate, serves in local and overseas missions and mentors young men in ministry and business. Ski and his wife, Julie, have two children and five grandchildren.
Brian Ricci, Treasurer
Brian serves as part of the national field leadership team of Bridges Int’l., a ministry of Cru, helping coach Bridges teams on university campuses across the U.S. as they reach over One Million international students studying in the USA. He is married to Leslie and they have five children and six grandchildren.
John Niemann, Board Member
John Niemann is a self-employed entrepreneur starting his career in real estate and residential development. Some of his real estate development projects were in Casa Grande, AZ, which sparked an interest for another passion. There he started several companies including an automotive group and recreational vehicle sales. He was actively involved in leadership at Grace Community Church, having served three terms on the elder board. John is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.
Ministry Staff
Phylicia Snow | Vice President of Donor Relations
Phylicia Snow serves as Vice President of Donor Relations for JesusOnline Ministries, where she leads fundraising, donor engagement, and strategic communication to help expand the ministry’s global reach.
She has over a decade and a half of experience in nonprofit leadership and development. She is passionate about the work of the ministry, and feels blessed to be a part of what God is doing through JOM.
Phylicia is married and a proud mom of four. She enjoys playing and coaching basketball, hiking, and reading in her free time.
Jonathan Kobayashi | Discipleship Pastor
Jonathan brings a rich experience in overseas missions, pastoral ministry, church planting, discipleship, leadership training, and coaching.
Together with his wife, Kim, he began his ministry serving with Cru. His heart has always been for discipleship multiplication (2 Timothy 2:2).
Jonathan appreciates the ministry’s relationship-centered, grace-based, Spirit-dependent, love-motivated, and Biblically-focused culture. He wants to see this ethos multiplied across the global body of Christ.
He holds a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Jake McCurry | IT Director
Jake brings a people-first approach to JOM’s technology stack, rooted in his early career in higher education administration discipling college students.
With missionaries in the family, he always felt a call to missions and wondered where God would take him. Never expecting God would bring the mission field to him through online ministry.
He holds a Certificate in Web Development & Design, a Master’s in Higher Education, and a Bachelor’s in Political Science.
Residing in Washington State, Jake and his wife Amanda enjoy small town life with their four children—spending time outdoors, serving in their local church, and homeschooling together.