OUR TEAM

Stan Dobbs is the founder of Apartment Life, Lionheart, and Skylark. He currently serves as CEO of Lionheart and Skylark. After a career in the computer industry, Stan attended seminary in Fort Worth, Texas and developed a passion for serving apartment communities while on staff at a chuurch. His passion is to birth and develop "businesstry" visions which are spiritually effective, scalable and sustainable via integrated business models. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife Vicky.

With an eclectic array of interests and passions, Jake has experience in the medical, educational, travel, and Christian camping industries. He most recently spent 8 years at Pine Cove Christian Camps where he served in a variety of positions, his latest as a leadership development coach for young professionals. He has a track record for using creative solutions to further God's Kingdom purposes and further human development. Jake is pursuing an MDIV from Southwestern Seminary with intents of completing a doctorate shortly after. When he is not around the classroom creating fun for kids, you can find him enjoying his own fun as a mountaineer, leading study tours, photography, writing, or running with the bulls in Spain.

Josh spent over 10 years on staff at churches as a pastor before joining Skylark. He spent the first part of his career with Pine Cove Camps before recognizing the call on his life to serve God’s church in a unique way. Skylark blends his love of camp ministries and his desire to see the church reach people for Jesus. Josh is a graduate of Texas Tech and Dallas Theological Seminary. The greatest joy in his life aside from knowing Jesus is getting to be married to his best friend, Melissa. They have 2 wonderful kids (Fortniños), a spry senior pup (#PennyThePup)and are a family who loves to find joy and laughter in life.

William has been involved with camp ministry since 2013, when he went through Pine Cove's high school discipleship program. From there, he spent every summer in college at one of Pine Cove's family camps, where he served as a counselor, maintenance person, sound technician and eventually the work crew director. He also briefly worked in their education department before leaving to start a construction transportation company in Houston.

Emily is an Austin native and grew up going to family camp every summer! The memories she made are family camp are some of her most treasured childhood memories. In college, she worked four summers on staff at Pine Cove Woods and grew to love camp ministry even more. She’s looking forward to all that the Lord has planned for Skylark this summer.

Daniel grew up in Houston, and has always had a heart for serving kids. He spent his college years working as a counselor for Pine Cove, and traveling to Lusaka, Zambia each summer to serve on the college team for Camp Life. After Graduating from the University of Texas with a Finance degree he decided to make the switch to working in ministry full-time and started at a Relational Training Ministry based out of Cedar Park. He loved Austin and GCN, but missed the fun, energy-filled environment that was camp. That's when he made the switch to Skylark! Daniel has a passion for serving the next generation of believers and for discipling students. He loves traveling, sports, sneakers, coffee, and singing random things that he does throughout the day.

Melissa loves serving others! She has extensive experience in administration and director level positions across a variety of industries including government, for profit, nonprofit and ministry endeavors. Melissa and her husband enjoy traveling together, running marathons, volunteering in their community, and raising their three boys (Caleb, Joshua and Silas). Melissa is currently working on her goal of becoming a certified scuba diver to step up her family’s adventurous trips to the beach.