Meet our dynamic leadership team, staff members and regional facilitators

Meet our dynamic leadership team & staff members

nxt move leadership

BOARD

Joseph Kucera

secretary

Experienced intellectual property strategist and seasoned licensing professional with over a decade of patent licensing experience, both inbound and outbound, engaging top tier technology companies around the globe.

JuriE Kriel

ceo and founder

Jurie Kriel leads the NXT Move global community from Austin, Texas, where together with his wife Karin are part of the leadership at Shoreline Church. The NXT Move is a community of leaders with the mission to gather Christian leaders to address the negative trajectory of Christianity in the next generation, with a focus on overcoming duplication and siloed thinking—key obstacles to fulfilling the Great Commission. To further this mission, Jurie also serves as the Global Director of Collaboration with the Lausanne Movement.


In Texas, he has served as a teaching pastor at Hill Country Bible Church and planted a church in the urban core of Austin. In South Africa, they oversaw and planted multiple campuses with Doxa Deo and co-founded the Timothy Ministry Training Seminary, which continues to train leaders for ministry. 


Married for 20 years to Karin, they stand together in pursuit of the purposes of God over their lives. They have two boys, Joshua and Ethan who are continuously teaching them more than they could ever wish to teach them.

Craig Parks

Craig Parks is Founder and Principal of Parks Communication, an Austin-based communication and production company. In addition to his broad marketing and corporate communications expertise, one of his greatest passions is working with non-profits, ministries, and social causes producing content, stories and videos to help organizations drive their mission.


Specifically, in the area of non-profits, over the past several years Craig has produced/directed productions for Mack, Jack & McConaughey (MJ&M), Austin Habitat for Humanity, Bo Jackson’s “Bo Bikes Bama”, Texas Exes, Austin Chamber of Commerce, RBI Austin, Movement.org, Thinkery, Rise School of Austin, Saint Louise House, Catholic Extension, CureDuchenne, and more.


He chairs the Board of Directors at Mission Possible (+ Church Under the Bridge), serves on the NXT Move Board of Directors and served on the Marbridge Foundation Victory Hall Initiative, and is active in the 5twelve Church plant in downtown Austin.

Josh Balmer

Josh graduated from Gordon College in 2003, with a B.A. in Communication Arts and minors in Business Administration and German. He is thankful to the Lord for directing his steps back to his hometown to serve as President of Retail and Finance for his family’s business, Penn Valley Gas. This has fueled his mission to accelerate Gospel impact through business and invest in younger generations by being involved in global initiatives like NXT Move and serving in his local church.

Paul Krueger

Paul was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended college in Oklahoma. He had a career with IBM for 20 years as Systems Engineer and has served with the Navigators full-time for the last 20 years. He was assigned to the CoMission in St. Petersburg, Russia for four years.


Paul's position within US Navigators includes: Director Glen Eyrie Conference Center, Community Ministry, National Orality Movement, Director Prison Discipleship Ministries, Disciples for Life.


His wife went to heaven after five years of cancer. Then the Lord led to a new marriage with Cheryl Meredith two years ago and has four adult children and 12 grandkids. Paul's heartbeat is ‘to make disciples’ and magnify the Lord daily.  His church involvement includes Mission Director, Teacher, and Elder.

BoshoFf Grobler

chairman

Boshoff is an entrepreneur.  He has been a corporate entrepreneur for more than twenty years, building new businesses within the largest primary listed financial services group on the continent of Africa. These businesses compete in the investment banking and investment management industries. Boshoff is also a social entrepreneur, having established businesses in the hospitality and outdoor adventure industries. As spiritual entrepreneur Boshoff has been part of many teams planting churches and establishing other ministries, globally.


Boshoff is also an activator. As preacher, speaker, writer, coach and consultant Boshoff loves to encourage others to be the change their worlds need.


He holds BCom (Law) and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria as well as a Master of Law (LLM) focused on banking, corporate, finance, and securities law from the University of Johannesburg. He also holds an Executive Master in Change (EMC) from INSEAD Business School in France.


Boshoff loves breeding and riding Arabian horses, traveling, staying fit, and reading. Boshoff is married to Blyde and they have three children Andreas, Nina, and Miko.

Cheryl MEREDITH, PhD.

Cheryl is the President of Maray Mercher, Inc.  She consults and trains in leadership, coaching and emotional intelligence. She also serves as Chief Ideation Officer for a non-profit organization in Colorado and as an Adjunct Professor at Trinity Western University.  She completed her PhD in Business, Organization and Management with a focus on Emotional Intelligence in Executive Leaders. Her Masters is in Counselling. 


She has extensive executive leadership experience with over 35 years of leading nationally and internationally in the non-profit sector. She has completed certifications as both a Global and Senior HR professional and as an Executive Coach through Corporate Coach U International.  She created The Coaching Pathway for Pairin.com as an introduction to coaching. Cheryl speaks, teaches, and facilitates across North America and Internationally. She is passionate about helping people understand and optimize their abilities, talents, and capacity to make the greatest contribution possible in their spheres of influence. Cheryl is married to Paul, a widower. He was the full package deal with 4 adult children, 3 married and 12 grandchildren. Cheryl’s new favourite thing is loving on the grandkids. They live in Colorado and regularly pursue their other passions, cycling, scuba diving, skiing, literature, travel, friends, and film.


Rev. Dr. John Snelgrove

Rev. Dr. John Snelgrove hails from the UK and came to Hong Kong in 1987 . After a 33 year career in insurance he retired in 2003 to become founding pastor of the Vine Church, a multinational multigenerational church in Hong Kong . 


From 2016-2023 he served in Kong Fok Church, a local Church as lead pastor for their English Ministry. John and his wife Sandra share a deep passion for the unity of the church and have both been instrumental in building bridges between churches and across language barriers. They are also keenly involved with different churches and ministries across the globe, with particular reference to raising future generations.  


Affectionately known as the father and mother of the city, John and Sandra love to share God’s Father’s Heart, especially with the emerging generation. John serves on a number of charitable boards and completed a DMin at Bethel Bible Seminary in 2018, researching the relationship with millennial Chinese and both local and international churches. John and Sandra two sons and five grandchildren all living in Hong Kong.

get to know our team

STAFF

Jurie Kriel

ceo & founder

Michelle Janse van Rensburg

chief operating officer

COLIN PIPER

chief relationship officer

Mark Alexander

director DFW initiatives

LYNNAE KUCERA

financial director

MARLI LOMBARD

operations manager

ULRICH LOMBARD

special projects manager

THATO MOLAOLWE

executive assistant

OLINKA SMIT

operations intern

Mayhew olivier

business manager

MICAH NUTALL

personal assistant to Jurie Kriel

KASEY HATFIELD

executive assistant to Jurie Kriel
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