Sarah Gackle

Regional Vice President

Rockies Region: AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY

As a competitor, Sarah found her home on the volleyball court. After playing four years of college volleyball, she started her career with FCA as an intern with FCA Colorado. Sarah, her husband, Matt, and their daughter, Ellie, live in Colorado Springs. As Regional Vice President, Sarah provides spiritual leadership, guides ministry direction, and ensures the growth and health of the ministry team across the Rockies.

David sensed God’s call to use sports as a ministry tool at just 16 years old. Before joining FCA in January 2025, he spent over 25 years serving in local churches in various roles, including Sports Outreach Pastor and Executive Pastor.  Now, as the Rockies Regional Director of Sport, David is eager to bring his experience in organizing leagues and clubs and help equip our regional staff in leading coaches, athletes and their families into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.

Aaron is passionate about developing servant leaders and strategizing to help fulfill the Great Commission. Growing up in California he heard the gospel in a local church and was led to the Lord by his parents. He went on to play football at the University of Arizona.  In 2003 he joined Athletes in Action and eventually oversaw all campus ministry in CA, AZ, and HI and partnered with various FCA staff.  In 2018, he joined the FCA staff.  He is married to his wife, Mandy, and they have three children. 

Andrew and his bride, Samantha, live in Colorado Springs and his four children, Alana, Amaya, Josiah, and Jeremiah. Andrew Powell is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a heart for God and athletics. While at the Air Force Academy, Andrew played football and held various leadership positions in the Cadet Wing. Andrew also has a heart for seeing lives impacted through music. He uses his gifts as a hip hop artist and DJ to reach the youth. Samantha’s passion is to see young women fully transformed from our present culture’s ideas of body image and who women are to a Biblical understanding of the image they were created in.

Aaron lives in Laramie Wyoming with his wife Stacy and 4 children.  Aaron came to faith in Christ in high school through the influence of a local pastor who served as a volunteer football coach for his team. Upon graduating high school, ended up accepting a scholarship to play football and study engineering at the University of Wyoming where he became actively involved with the FCA ministry. Aaron joined as part time staff with FCA as a campus associate in 2001 and joined the Wyoming staff as a full time Campus and Area Representative with FCA after graduating in 2002. He has served in a variety of roles with FCA including Area Representative, Campus Director, Chaplain, Regional Director of International Advancement and is excited to serve the staff and state as Wyoming State Director. Aaron is passionate about sharing the Gospel through the ministry of FCA and seeing lives transformed by Jesus Christ. He and his family love Wyoming where they enjoy fishing, hunting, and taking adventures in the outdoors in every season of the year.

Ron, who was born and raised in Illinois, is a graduate of Winona State (Minn.), where he played football, was a member of the track & field team, and was first introduced to FCA. Ron has served in various roles with FCA through the years, including as a volunteer, camp huddle leader, chairman of the Utah FCA leadership board, and most recently as the Central & Southern Utah director. In 2012, Ron and a group of people collaborated on bringing FCA to Utah, and in 2022, while serving on the Utah FCA leadership board, he was presented with the Fellowship of Christian Athlete’s Branch Rickey Service Award. In May and June 2023, Ron set out to walk across Utah - over 500 miles - to raise awareness and resources for Utah FCA. On June 11, 2023, he completed the trek - 528 miles, over 1 million steps, in 30 days.

It was on the walk Ron gained clarity on God calling him into ministry, which led him to step away from 37 years in college and professional sports and into full time ministry with FCA.

Sheri fell in love with the ministry of FCA when her local church's Sports Ministry department partnered with FCA for Power Camps and travel Baseball clubs.  Since 2007, she has been blessed with the opportunity to serve her FCA family administratively in various capacities, and has currently been assisting Sarah since Fall 2023.