ANDREA | PRESIDENT

ANDREA (she/her/hers; say Ahn-DRAY-uh) has been married to Warren for 22 years, and they have four kids: Hayley, Sophia, Ella and Ethan. She has a math and science brain that corresponds with her nursing degrees; and an artsy brain that makes her useful at web and graphic design and a master of any type of craft. While she’s at it, you can always find her plugged into an audiobook. She moved to Texas a few years ago and found Galileo amidst a lot of spiritual confusion. Andrea experienced indifference toward religion in the past, but her eyes are now open to the beauty it can provide without being harmful. Her faith and spirituality continue to grow in this new community she has found. 

BRENDA | Member-at-large

BRENDA (she/her/hers) is a native Arizonan and attends Galileo through Galileo’s Inside/Out (online) Ministry. She lives in Tempe, Arizona with her amazing husband, Joel, her brilliant daughter, Jordan, and her sweet beagle, Trixie. She is a homeschool mom and teaches kids all over the world on Outschool. She is also an author, has self-published three children's books, and is trying to figure out what to do with her novel now that it is finished. Brenda loves stories and video games. She loves middle-grade fantasy, first-person shooters, cooperative board games, action/adventure movies, and TV shows with strong ensembles. She is also a huge romantic and thinks all stories/games/movies should end with “and they lived happily ever after.”

Galileo Inside/Out is Brenda’s heart. She wants to help build a true community amongst the Galileo friends and co-conspirators out here in “outer space”. She is more thankful than she could ever say that Galileo Fort Worth was willing to turn itself inside out to reach people outside of the area. She came home the day she found Galileo and longs to welcome home all the spiritual refugees who are still looking for their place to belong.

WES | TREASURER

WES (he/him/his) struggles to define himself in his constant search for meaning. He is a human trying to be worthy of sharing space with other amazing humans, a champion of social justice, wannabe author, student of public policy, part-time kayaker, part-time crafter, bourbon aficionado, cupcake junkie, full-time therapist, grown-up lost boy, TBD… Most recently he has taken to being a stepparent and developing a love of all things Lego. Relationships are such an important part of his life, and he loves to pen cards and letters to special people using his collection of fountain pens and interesting inks. A homebody by nature, his favorite way to spend time with people is small conversational groups. Wes also enjoys reading, learning about sciency “stuff,” baking, watching documentaries, making fun of bad TV, questioning everything, and trying to keep his acerbic wit in check. Like so many people at Galileo, Wes is overcoming his early church years to have a better understanding of his place in God’s universe. His current focus is figuring out how to accept love and grace, and just let God get what God wants without such a damn fight. The best way to get to know him is tacos, cupcakes, bourbon, and conversation…in any order. 

ASHLEY

ASHLEY (she/they) is a full-time Grad student on track to be a hospice social worker at UTA, a birth and bereavement doula, mother of 2 of the coolest elementary-aged kids (Carter and Lennon). Their husband Tyler–whom they happened to meet at Galileo–is the pastor of another local DOC church. As a doula, Ashley loves all things birth-related as well as things natural health and-wellness too. In their words, “Basically, I’m a hippy.” They were baptized right here at Galileo in 2017! They’re still learning, witnessing and experiencing how God is present in our lives. Ashley deeply enjoys both reading & talking about the wonder and mysteries of God with their husband and their church family. As Ashley says, “Jesus didn’t come down here so that we could talk about the weather!”

MISSY

MISSY (she/her/hers) is a retired schoolteacher. Her children, Joseph and Rachel, are now grown-ass, responsible humans, so nowadays Missy raises vegetables and flowers, which is in itself an exercise in optimism every year. Missy also enjoys building things; her current project is a teardrop camper.

Missy has more questions than answers about God, but one thing she is sure of is that God keeps surprising her and putting her together with amazing people who just make life better. Missy says, “Finding the community of chosen family I have at Galileo was worth moving 800 miles.”

LANE

LANE (he/him/his) is a husband to Emily and dog dad to Marla and Wade, who makes a living telling his clients how to spend their marketing budgets. When he's not heads-down in Excel, you can likely find him training for a half marathon, cooking something, or completely selling out to make Emily laugh (this includes lots of objectively terrible dancing and shamelessly bad dad jokes.) Finding a spiritual home at Galileo has helped him reconstruct so many elements of his faith, especially as it relates to understanding the true personhood of Jesus and what it really means for God to get everything God wants.

CHRIS | SecRetary

CHRIS (he/him/his) is husband to Wendi and dad to Miranda and Stella. In addition to raising their 2 daughters together, Chris occasionally steals Wendi’s cat for some kitty snuggles (he can’t help it if the cat picks his lap!). In his professional life, Chris works at the unusual intersection of sales and human resources. It’s a unique position that gives him the opportunity to provide counsel and guidance to folx, helping them find success in their careers. In fact, helping people be at their very best is something Chris loves to do in all parts of his life. When he’s not spending time with family and friends, Chris loves to play video games, read and write poetry, and engage in his hobby of collecting fountain pens. Having grown up in a conservative church, Chris’s idea of “being a Christian” was limited. Over the past few years, he’s been expanding and reworking his personal theology, learning about how God’s love is for everyone. In his day-to-day life and through the good work being done at Galileo, Chris hopes to share that love with each and every person he encounters.

MIRANDA

MIRANDA (she/her/hers) is the oldest daughter of Wendi and Chris and the older sister of Stella. Her primary job is as a full-time chemistry and physics student at UTA (she couldn't just choose one so she chose both!), where she's involved in the Honors College and a research lab on campus. Outside of her love for science, Miranda absolutely adores cats and takes every opportunity to smother both of her family's cats with love. Her hobbies include drawing, reading psychological thrillers, playing video games, and creating piano arrangements for some of her favorite songs.

Being a part of Galileo has really helped Miranda discover more of who she is. Because of her religious upbringing, she had no idea that one could be queer AND Christian at the same time; "I was basically a closeted queer who had no idea I was queer - I hadn't even considered it a possibility." The Galileo community has really allowed Miranda to express herself fully and openly, for which she is forever thankful, and she hopes to be able to foster that openness to its fullest by welcoming any and all that walk through Galileo's doors. 

MAEGHAN

MAEGHAN (they/them) is a DFW native, crazy cat person, and high school ELAR teacher who you can always depend on for a dad joke/bad pun.  They, along with their wife, have been part of Galileo Church since 2019 and together the Brieses facilitate S4 each month.  Maeghan is passionate about the Inside Out and G-Youth ministries and justice for LGBTQ+ people (especially kids and young adults!). They also love attending G-Craft whenever they get the chance, and facilitate G-Brunch.