MEET THE TEAM
Dominic Laureano
Co-Founder, Project Director, Apostle (Church Planter) to the Metaverse
Dominic Laureano is a visionary project director, church planter, and fiery missionary. He oversees the planning and execution of innovative metaverse ministry strategies, guiding the movement's digital crusades alongside the MetaCrusade's other co-founders. Fulfilling an apostolic mandate to reach the metaverse, Dominic pastors, trains, and leads hundreds of young people across digital platforms like Discord and immersive gaming environments, where he brings the message of Christ to new frontiers.
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His ministry experience began when he graduated Spirit Life Bible College 25 years ago and embarked on global missionary work across Mexico, India, Namibia, and the Philippines. Personally mentored by world-renowned Benny Hinn and Roberts Liardon, Dominic has been used by God in leadership, evangelistic outreaches, youth crusades, and youth/young adult discipleship around the globe. His ministry is anchored in the core principle of "Know, Encounter, & Obey Jesus."
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In addition to his ministry, Dominic is an accomplished martial artist with over 30 years of experience. He holds a 5th-degree black belt in Karate and has claimed 15 World Championship titles. He also founded several martial arts schools across Southern California, training numerous champions. With a B.S. in Exercise Science from California Baptist University and over four years of postgraduate training in Physical Therapy, Dominic left a promising doctoral career path to fully embrace his calling to full-time ministry.​
Frankie Cortez
Co-Founder, Crusade Director, Social Media Lead
Frankie Cortez is a fearless globe-trotting evangelist who has reached over a quarter of a million people across seven nations in the last 3 years. Soul winning isn’t his only specialty, though. He has also helped Christ for All Nations and other ministries train hundreds of pastors and leaders across North and South America. Now he brings his expertise to the metaverse with the intention of reaching millions of souls worldwide as the MetaCrusade's Crusade Director. He currently leads a church on Rec Room as well as bringing the light of Jesus Christ across social media.
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Between 2021-2023, he led a massive crusade in Egypt (109,000 people reached), 2 crusades in Pakistan (43,000 people reached), 3 crusades in Venezuela (34,000 people reached), a mini-crusade in Mexico (5,000 people reached), and partnered with evangelism teams sharing the power and love of Jesus Christ across war-torn Ukraine as well as in parts of western Poland and Romania (42,000 people reached). He also helped gospel invasions across Tanzania and the U.S.A.
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His ministry training includes graduating from Christ of All Nation's Bootcamp (under evangelist Daniel Kolenda), personal mentorship from Levi Lutz (King Ministry International), and church plant training from Scott Lee (encounteringlifeinternational.org). Dr. Michael Mathews, vice president of technology and innovation at Oral Roberts University, trained him to reach the metaverse with the Gospel.
Joel Stunkard
Co-Founder, Lead Evangelist, Academy Director, Pastor
Joel Stunkard is a pastor, international evangelist, and Amazon best-selling author. Before being formally ordained through All In Church (under Pastor Antonio Wilkins) in 2023, he served as a Young Life leader for two and a half years, a board member of Garden of Grace church for two years, and worked as a full-time author for DBS Publishing for six years under the pseudonym J.S. Donovan, where he wrote bestselling thriller and mystery novels targeting a secular audience.
His evangelistic background began in 2023 when he graduated Christ for All Nation's Evangelism Firecamp. Since then, he has preached in Poland, Kenya, Uganda and the USA, totaling over 300,000 people reached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ by teams of 12-20 missionaries on each trip. Amassing pastoral, teaching, public speaking and writing skills over the last decade, he aims to invest 110% of his efforts into the MetaCrusade to reach millions of truth-seekers across the metaverse and raise an army of active disciple-makers. Currently, he oversees weekly church services, one new believers' group, and various inner-weekly outreaches for the MetaCrusade, as well as helming the MetaCrusade Academy.
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Other notable achievements include: graduating Full Sail University with 8 prestigious awards and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, completing Tribe Activation Ministry’s Deliverance and Inner Healing Module One, and working temporarily as a business plan writer and consultant for a company he co-founded called Marble House Consulting.
Hochang Kwon
Co-Founder, Metaverse Architect, Builder, Web3 Expert
Hochang Kwon is a metaverse architect, digital builder, and deacon in the house of the Lord. Before building one-of-a-kind churches for the MetaCrusade, he was CEO of Rocket Inc where he thrived in blockchain marketing, business consulting, and Web3 experiences. His expertise extends to metaverse, A.I., NFT, and investment projects. He has worked on 40+ NFT and web3 projects. As for his building capabilities, he brought together and led a team of 300 people to build a digital world in Minecraft that was visited by tens of thousands of players. He now brings his 30,000+ hours of Web3, VR, and digital game-building experiences to the Metacrusade.
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In 2007, he felt a strong call from the Lord to start exploring the metaverse as a way to unify the global Body of Christ. At that time, the technology had not caught up with his vision. Fast-forward to today, and now the stage is set to reach millions for Jesus Christ across digital worlds. With a strong analytical mind, creative eye, and a heart to give his all for Jesus Christ, OJ is all in to build for the Kingdom of God what he envisioned two decades ago: the world’s largest digital church.
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As an early adopter of virtual reality and other blooming technologies, he believes in the future of A.I. and how Christians across the world can thrive in this progressively digital world. Currently, OJ is building digital church buildings, Gospel crusade concert halls, and other assets to help disciple souls across the metaverse.
Greg Lovett
Board Member
Treasurer
Greg Lovett is a serial entrepreneur and executive thrilled to be part of advancing the Kingdom and initiatives of God. Having built and grown numerous companies over his 25+ year career (including everything from 7 pure starts-ups, to publicly-traded companies operating globally), and having held a variety of roles (including CEO, COO, CFO and Board Member), Greg is the “business guy” behind the scenes, lending his experience and support in the areas of corporate governance, operations and finance.
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Since taking a 7-year verse-by-verse Bible study course from Dr. Bill Creasy in the late 90’s, Greg went on to teach verse-by-verse Bible studies as part of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s jail ministry team, and subsequently taught the Bible as part of a kids ministry team for a Calvary Chapel affiliated church plant, Vision City Church. He has also served as a Board member for Bethany Christian Services, a Christian-based adoption agency, as well as for the MetaCrusade.
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Greg has personally managed and led virtually every type of department there is – including finance and accounting, M&A and corporate integrations, legal, operations, investor relations, business process improvement, HR, corporate development, sales and marketing, and product development – and is deploying his business acumen to Christian missionary organizations looking to advance the kingdom worldwide.