Fernando Souza has been a Crossbridge Elder and a Board Member at Redeemer City to City Miami since 2019. He also serves as a host and a leader of one of our community groups.

Fernando is an electronic engineer, and currently a Senior Executive at a global US-based technology company. He is married to Fernanda and is the father of Nicole.

Fernando is passionate about Jesus, sports (plays tennis), music (plays the guitar), and enjoys the beach, nature, books, and movies.

Jeff Hartsook has grown up in the Kendall/Perrine community known today as Pinecrest and Palmetto Bay. He is married to his wife Christine who is a native Miamian. They have 3 daughters 6, 9, and 10. They have called Crossbridge their church home since 2009 and have been Members since 2010. Jeff works in commercial real estate, graduated from Palmetto High School, and graduated from Florida State University. He loves spending time with family and friends, being on the water, breaking bread, and discussing the important questions of the day. He has been active in BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) since 2007.

Justin Tucker was born and raised in KY, and has lived in the Brickell neighborhood since 2013.

He has been a member of Crossbridge since 2013, serving as a Deacon from 2015-2019, a member of the Finance Team since 2017, and as an elder and treasurer since 2019.

In addition, Justin currently works for a private hedge fund in Coral Gables. Justin has been happily married to Melissa Tucker since 2008. He loves to travel and spend time with friends and family.

Ariel was born and raised in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. He comes from generations of strong believing Christians; his father was an ordained pastor and his grandparents were church founders. He has served in different churches as part of the leadership team, serving in capacities such as deacon, elder, board, bible study teacher, and ordained administrative pastor in different states during his active duty career with the United States Coast Guard.He has been married to Lillian for 35 years, blessed to be Xiomara Christian and Gabriel Rivera's parents and Albert Christian’s grandparents. His daughter and son-in-law currently serve as part of Crossbridge Pinecrest's Diaconate.

He started serving at Crossbridge Pinecrest more than 7 years ago and has transitioned to serve at Crossbridge Homestead since its launch. Ariel is a civil service employee for the federal government with the U. S. Department of Labor. He enjoys spending time with his grandson and family.

One of his favorite verses is Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”

Phil Nicholas has been an elder at Crossbridge Brickell since [2019]. Phil is from Indiana and moved to Miami when he was 19. Phil attended FIU and then the law school at the University of Miami (where he was blessed to be a Cane).

Shortly after graduating from law school, Phil was soon challenged by a former attorney to “look at the evidence” for Christianity. He says, “I had no idea there was evidence. I was blown away…..”. Phil’s most treasured gifts are being married to “Jina”, and he has 4 awesome children and 7 grandchildren (soon to be 8).

Phil is quick to say, “3 years ago I had no grandchildren, and asked the Lord if he was going to bless me with any, and voila! The Lord does seem to have a sense of humor.”

Phil currently works for Amadeus as in-house counsel and has taught as an adjunct professor at the U.M. law school for 20+ years. He loves to teach, and especially enjoys Christian apologetics and talking about the Gospel, to those who will listen.