Leadership & governance
The public posture of TDI is institutional rather than personality-led. Founders are named in the story. The board carries the fiduciary load. Program Directors sit together at the Stewards’ Table. Advisors strengthen the work without replacing either.
The people of the work
Use real approved photography when available. Until then, this page uses clearly labeled placeholders rather than invented people. Biographies emphasize relevant experience, responsibility, and service — not inflated claims.
Founding leadership
TDI was founded by Chris and Holly Meidl out of a long-term commitment to respond practically and substantively to needs within their communities of proximity and broader garden of influence. Title and public biography remain subject to approval.
Founding leadership
Alongside Chris, Holly helped establish TDI as an institutional home for distinct Chartered Programs. Public title and extended biography remain subject to leadership approval.
Governing board · Placeholder
The TDI board carries fiduciary responsibility, legal oversight, and institutional accountability for the whole. Individual names, photographs, and terms will be published when approved.
Advisory councils · Placeholder
Advisory councils bring field expertise and community trust. They do not replace the TDI governing board, and they are distinct from the Stewards’ Table — the Program Directors’ own leadership community.
Organizational structure
Oversight · Wisdom · Accountability
The legal fiduciary body. Directors govern mission, strategy, financial sustainability, risk, policy, and executive accountability.
Vision · Strategy · Stewardship
Institutional supervision, delegated authority, shared services, and alignment with TDI mission and risk standards.
Daily operations, program incubation, partnerships, fundraising, and communications.
Finance, legal, HR, evaluation, technology, and other specialty support as the work requires.
Lead each Chartered Program with field excellence, local wisdom, and measurable outcomes — and sit together at the Stewards’ Table.
Ministry, clinical, legal, arts, land, education, and community advisors who strengthen the work without replacing the Board.
Biblically grounded · Ethically robust · Transparent · Measurable · Accountable.
The Stewards’ Table
The Stewards’ Table is TDI’s leadership community of Program Directors — entrusted with strengthening one another, each Chartered Program, and the whole ecosystem. It is not a board. It is not management. It is a covenant community of peers.
As each Program grows stronger, every other Program benefits. The Table exists so that no TDI leader ventures out alone.
A trusted community of Program Directors who steward their missions with excellence and collectively advance TDI through mutual wisdom, collaboration, encouragement, and faithful leadership — built on trust and prayer.
Monthly
A private online community for questions, resources, introductions, documents, celebration, problem-solving, and prayer.
Every other month
A 90-minute virtual cohort with the Executive Director: wins, challenges, a deep learning topic, a Director presentation, and prayer.
Quarterly
Small peer groups of three or four Directors for confidential conversation, coaching, and mutual encouragement.
Annually
A two- or three-day Leadership Summit — the family reunion of the ecosystem — for shared learning, Board conversation, worship, and renewal.
Core commitments
Each year Directors bring an Annual Harvest: what worked, what they would do differently, one lesson for the whole, one opportunity needing partners, and one prayer. Over time the Table becomes institutional memory no single Program could hold alone.
Humble authority is a core value because unaccountable charisma harms the people a mission claims to love. Bounds are part of the witness.
We pursue that standard — not perfection that performs, but humility that holds.
Governance clarity
The governing board carries fiduciary duty, legal and tax-exempt status, policy, risk, and institutional accountability for every Chartered Program.
Program leaders carry field identity, methods, participant experience, and designated donor relationships — inside TDI, not beside it. Together they form the Stewards’ Table, a peer community that does not govern TDI and does not replace the Board.
Advisory councils bring expertise and community trust. They do not replace the TDI governing board. The Stewards’ Table is the Program Directors’ own cohort — distinct from both. Inquire about serving.