Ben grew up in a church-planting family — three countries, two continents — with most of his growing-up done in Africa, where he watched communities lean on prayer when there was very little else to lean on. That never left him.

He’s spent the last three years working inside day-to-day ministry, close enough to see the pattern every church knows: the requests come in faster than any team can follow them through. Novus is his answer to that gap — not more love, which churches have; a better tool, which they don’t.

Dillon comes from an American ministry legacy that runs back generations — from pulpits to broadcast — and he’s carried it forward himself: years serving directly in church ministry, alongside time in athletics at a faith-based college.

Walking with people through real hardship taught him what the data never captures: prayer and community are not the soft part of church life. They’re the part that holds when everything else gives.