How It All Began
In 1979, Dr. Gary Rosberg and Jerry Foster, invited Mike Colby and Tim Vermillion to meet weekly, to encourage one another as young husbands and fathers. Over the next few years, these four men continued to meet forming an accountability group that still meets decades later.
CrossTrainers Today
Since the beginning, the passion for the men of CrossTrainers is to gather the best men in America weekly to remind one another that we are indeed men of God and need each other to spur one another on to live well and finish strong.
After 42 years, Gary passed the baton of CrossTrainers leadership to the next generation: Frank Accurso and Chris Barr, in order to affirm a smooth transition for the upcoming decades. Although Gary remains the Co-Founder (with Jerry Foster) of CrossTrainers, he has stepped away from the operational administration of the ministry. He remains on the Board, a speaker at CrossTrainers, and joins each Wednesday when in Des Moines and on Zoom when out of town.
CrossTrainers is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization as ministers to the men of Central Iowa to equip men in their homes, with friendships, in their workplaces, churches and communities as men of God.
Our Board Members
Frank Accurso - Chairman | Channel Development of Senior Living at Oasis a Paychex® Company
Chris Barr - Secretary | Director of Business Relations at Communications Innovators
Vernon Delpesce - Board Member | President of Vedco Consulting, Former CEO of the YMCA of Greater Des Moines
Dr. Gary Rosberg - Co-Founder | Co-founder of America’s Family Coaches and The Rosberg Group with Barb Rosberg
Jerry Foster - Co-Founder | Chairman of the Board of Directors for The Foster Group.