BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION

To accelerate the development and growth of Skylark, the organization is being built on the foundation of two other cutting edge ministries: Apartment Life and Lionheart Children’s Academy. These ministries have developed a shared-services model which shares top talent in key areas (strategic planning, finance/ administration, HR) to incubate new ministries like Skylark. Some of this talent is profiled in the Leadership Profiles.

Apartment Life was founded in 2000 to help churches more effectively reach apartment communities for Christ. With $25 million in annual revenue and deploying over 1,200 missionaries into apartments, Apartment Life is one of the fastest growing and spiritually impactful ministries in the country. Around 90% of Apartment Life’s expenses are covered by the apartment owners.

Lionheart was launched in 2014 to take back the childcare industry for Christ. Lionheart partners with local churches to provide full-time preschool, after school and summer programs targeting unchurched working families. Lionheart currently has 14 locations, $22 million in annual revenue and 400 employees and is growing rapidly. Lionheart locations become selfsustaining within two years.

Apartment Life and Lionheart participate in the Best Christian Workplace annual survey to measure organizational health.

Apartment Life has received “Best Christian Workplace” designation for fifteen consecutive years and Lionheart has achieved the designation every year since inception as well.

Board Of Directors

Stan Dobbs, Founder and CEO

Andy Miller, Chief Revenue Officer, Heritage Golf Group

Tommy Miller, Former CEO, Interstate Batteries

Bobby Page, Founding Partner, JPI

Gary Staats, Partner and President (retired) The Covenant Group

David Ward, Executive Vice President, MAA