Senior Leadership Team
Elliott & Sarah Schweickert
Elliott and Sarah Schweickert are the founders and two of the senior leaders of The Living Room Virginia. They started The Living Room out of a hunger to worship and gather in the context of family and community.
By coming together in the pursuit of authenticity and heart connection, they have discovered attributes of the kingdom of God that could only be found around tables and in living rooms.
The mission of their family is “to live in such a way that the whole world feels they are invited.” It has been a thread that they have pursued throughout their lives both privately and publicly. Elliott and Sarah’s mission is to live from a place of wholeheartedness and be fully connected to the Holy Spirit and each other. They long to empower a generation to live with bold faith and a resounding yes to the pursuit of God’s presence.
Elliott is a former graduate of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, CA. He was adopted from Ukraine and still has strong ties with family and friends there. He has a heart for South Africa and has spent time serving with Iris Ministries. He was also an associate pastor for 5 years at The River Church in Toano, VA.
Sarah has a passion for music, the arts and creativity. She wants to inspire others to chase curiosity in their lives and to connect to the Lord through play, joy and creativity. She is a recording artist as well as a dancer and avid painter.
Both Sarah and Elliott are very active in the management of King of Clubs Brewing Co, a coffee roastery that was recently acquired by The Living Room. They are excited to continue in management and grow a business that can not only fund the kingdom of God but also be an open atmosphere for others to connect with each other and the Lord.
They currently live in Lanexa, VA with their cat, Todd and dog, Copper.
Emily Wade
Emily is part of the Senior Leadership Team at The Living Room where she oversees the prophetic culture.
Emily attended Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. She is passionate about living in authentic vulnerability within community and equipping believers to encounter the Lord. She has a mandate on her life to raise up a prophetic community and empower a generation of people who will display the raw power of God in their sphere of influence.
Her heart is to equip, empower, and release revivalists who will pay any price to live in tangible intimacy with Holy Spirit and ensure Jesus receives the full reward for His suffering: a healthy, whole, empowered Bride.
Emily leads the Prophetic Nights ministry and serves our team with operational management and team development. She also helps lead TLR@Home Richmond.
Ben Hakim
Ben is part of the Senior Leadership at The Living Room where he oversees evangelism and discipleship culture.
His passion is to see people come fully alive in walking out the fullness of their identity in Christ in everyday life through demonstration of the supernatural power of God. Ben is passionate to equip, empower and activate the Body of Christ in their gifts, passions and callings.
Ben believes that everyone truly desires to know the Father through Christ Jesus but needs an awakening to this truth through an encounter with God’s goodness. We as His Heavenly Kids have the joy of revealing His goodness to others that they too would come alive. In Christ, we have become a living love letter, to be seen and read by all, therefore we the world an encounter with His love.
Ben graduated Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and interned for Evangelist Christ Overstreet. After his time at Bethel Church, he spent 4 years overseas in China with a group of other passionate revivalists sharing the gospel and planting churches.
Ben’s chief pursuit is to preach, teach and equip the Body of Christ to demonstrate the simple gospel message effectively in their everyday lives through miracles, signs and wonders.
Tania Noska
Tania serves as a senior leader of The Living Room (TLR), a founding member of its board of directors, and oversees its generosity and international outreach culture.
With over ten years of experience in the business sector, Tania supervises financial and operational management of the ministry and of Kingship Brewing Company, its locally associated coffee roastery. She also directs overseas missions and coordinates financial support with a special emphasis on Zanzibar. Furthermore, Tania hosts TLR@Home in Williamsburg with her husband Ryne.
Tania desires to witness the Church function effectively as God’s primary agent of transformational restoration in the world. Her passions include business, kingdom finances, and community building. She clearly senses the Lord’s universal call to stewardship and yearns to witness and support every Christian's journey toward financial freedom and generosity.
Tania was born and raised in Veracruz, Mexico and graduated from Liberty University in 2009 with two Bachelor's degrees in Marketing and International Business. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 2018 and currently lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her experiences both abroad and at home developed within her an abiding gratitude for the freedom and values that the United States is founded upon as well as a compassion for the nations.
Tania enjoys physical fitness, fine dining, and her adorable dog TJ. She is an avid traveler and loves to explore the world. Fun fact: Tania has traveled to and through 39 countries!
Victoria Pevarnik, M.A. M.Div.
Victoria is part of the Senior Leadership Team, overseeing social media and worship. She plays a vital role in the apostolic direction, vision, and execution of the local and global mission of The Living Room Church. Victoria has a passion for empowering, equipping, and releasing the body of Christ to bring about the influence of heaven in their daily life. She and her husband Matt lead TLR@Home Virginia Beach.
Victoria is passionate about hosting the presence of God, creating space for the body of Christ and people outside of the church to encounter God. Her heart is to see the world belong at the TABLE of the lord, where they can feast on God's goodness and realize His love for them.
Victoria believes everyone has value and belongs to the kingdom of God, their inheritance is the joy of the lord, being delighted in, fully loved, and seen by their Father. Her mission is that her life will become a message of the love and power of God, demonstrating to others that they have permission to be fully alive in God by revealing the raw power of God in their sphere of influence.
Victoria has a Master of Divinity from Harvest Bible University in Los Angeles, California, and a Master of Social Science from the University of California, Irvine. For the past 20 years, she has served in various ministry settings around the U.S. in evangelism, prayer, prophetic, women’s ministry, church leadership, and administration.
She is married to Matthew Pevarnik and has three children that she loves deeply, Hope, Aria, and Justus. She homeschools them in their home in Virginia Beach. Their family loves adventure, travel, outdoor activities, and time together.