Meet the Team

Our first year as a ministry

During our first year as a ministry, Dare 2 Share absorbed a building, computers and equipment when another non-profit closed down, giving us a base of operations and resources to begin doing ministry more effectively.

First evangelism training conferences

In 1992, we held our first evangelism training conferences. The first event had 100 students in an auditorium that seated 2100. The second training conference had 75 attendees, the third, just 11.

No budgets, creativity and prayer

Traveling for those first no-budget years, doing training conferences with life-long friends took some imagination. Our production resources were mostly prayer, creativity, a few portable speakers, a foot locker full of props and duct tape.

Debbie Bresina comes on staff

Debbie Bresina came on as a volunteer in 1993 and started asking some much needed questions. In 1995, she came on as Dare 2 Share’s first full-time employee.

Our first out of state conferences

We did our first out of state conferences in 1995-1996 in Wheatland, Wyoming, Detroit, Michigan, and Houston Texas.

Name officially changed to “Dare 2 Share”

After realizing that “Warriors for Christ” was a name that carried some violent connotations we officially changed the name to Dare 2 Share.

Separate from Tandem Ministries

In 1997, Dare 2 Share officially became its own entity, separating amicably from Tandem Ministries. Greg Stier became the new President of Dare 2 Share.

Given a new truck to fit conference gear

We were gifted a new 1998 Brooks and Dunn edition Volvo tractor-trailer truck in 1997! We could fit all of our sound and lighting gear in the cab.

First D2S event in St. Louis, MO

In the fall of 1997, we did our first Dare 2 Share event in St. Louis, MO. We had 247 in attendance and a huge stage presence, complete with major sounds, lights and special effects!

Coordinate outreach for DC/LA

In summer of 1997, we coordinated the evangelism outreach experience for Youth for Christ’s DC/LA Evangelism Super Conference. It was a privilege to share the Gospel with thousands in the streets of DC and LA.

Conference breaks 1000 in attendance

In the spring of 1999, we broke 1,000 in attendance for the first time at our Atlanta Conference!

Columbine High School massacre

On April 20th, 1999 the Columbine High School massacre took place just outside of Denver. After much prayer and consulting, Greg Stier resigned from the church that he was pastoring to do Dare 2 Share full-time.

Danny Oertli begins traveling with D2S

Starting in 1999, we had the privilege to travel with Danny Oertli for several years. His worship excellence and life story had a huge impact on me and thousands of teenagers.

Rolly Richert and Holly Ingels join team

Rolly Richert and Holly Ingels began traveling with us and took Dare 2 Share conferences to the next level. Rolly went to be with the Lord a few years ago, but Holly is still helping us produce our events.

Youth Ministry book “Outbreak” published

Greg wrote his first book, Outbreak… Creating a Contagious Youth Ministry, in 2002 with Moody Publishing. This was his first real entry into training youth leaders to lead the way when it came to evangelism.

Partner with BGEA for week-long training

In the summer of 2002, we partnered with Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to train 240 teenagers and youth leaders. This gave us confidence that we had enough content to train teenagers for a week.

Train 172K men at Promise Keepers events

In 2003, we were able to train over 172,000 men to share their faith across the nation through the Promise Keepers events held from coast to coast.

Receive first and only million-dollar gift

In 2004, we received our first (and only) million-dollar gift. A businessman and ministry partner called Greg out of the blue and gave him the heart-stopping, soul-shaking, Kingdom advancing news while he was on his way to the airport.

Meet Zane Black through filming reality series

The evangelism-centered “reality series” Gospel Journey and Gospel Journey Maui video curriculums reached tens of thousands of teenagers with the gospel and introduced us to Zane Black.

Period of growth, train 50,000 teens in year

From 2002-2007, Dare 2 Share experienced massive growth and finally broke 9,000 in attendance at our St. Louis conference! At our largest, we did 11 events and trained almost 50,000 teenagers in one school year.

Learn power of prayer through recession

During the Great Recession of 2008, we learned the power of prayer as we experienced a major donor drop-off and almost didn’t make it as a ministry. God used this recession as a progression to our faith and to teach us to lead the way on our knees.

First full week Lead THE Cause training

In 2012, Dare 2 Share did our first full-week Lead THE Cause training at Colorado Christian University. Here, we trained students and leaders to cultivate and spread a gospel movement.

Shift focus to Gospel Advancing Ministries

In 2013, we commissioned a research project on youth ministry evangelism, discovering that our conferences were very effective in inspiring teenagers to evangelize, but they were not as effective in the long-term results. We began shifting our focus to Gospel Advancing Ministries.

Debbie Bresina becomes President of D2S

We headed to Israel in 2015 with 150 ministry leaders with the Global Youth Initiative and Sonlife to walk where Jesus walked and conspire with key country leaders. Here, God put it in Greg Stier's heart to begin to really “go global” and he put it on Debbie Bresina’s heart to accept the position of President.

Revise mission to open global impact

In August of 2016, our Board of Directors voted to say “YES” to a new mission statement that would open up our ministry to make a global impact, “Energizing the Church to Mobilize youth to Gospelize their world!”

D2S Conferences come to an end, and Dare 2 Share LIVE launches

Traditional conferences as we knew them come to a close, but our national, live simulcast event launches nationwide with over 500 churches participating. 

Lead THE Cause expanded to 5 cities

Lead THE Cause summer events trained hundreds of students in 5 different cities throughout the U.S.

The Life in 6 Words app launched in October

The Life in 6 Words got a major upgrade with even more effective Gospel-sharing tools and language capabilities.

COVID19 strikes and forces the ministry to pivot

The Audio Stories module for the Life in 6 Words app is developed which allows teens to have virtual Gospel conversations during sheltering-in-place

Lead THE Cause goes virtual enabling hundreds of more students to participate online.

The Life in 6 Words app was translated into 8 languages extending the reach of the app to potentially hundreds of millions of teens globally