Finishers Project
P.O. Box 926
Brookfield, CT 06804
(203) 740-7278
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BOARD AND STAFF MEMBERS
| | | Finishers Project Board Members | | Dave Estill | Director, AZ Region, Victim Relief Ministries | | Bill MacLeod | Chairman, Mission ConneXion Northwest | | Nelson Malwitz | Founder/Chief Innovation Officer, Finishers Project | | Neil Mammen | Engineer, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur | | Chuck Micheals | VP for Recruitment Ministries, WBT | | Don Parrott | President/CEO, Finishers Project | | Jeff Springer | Regional Representative, Navigators | | John Warton, Jr. | President, Business Professional Network | | | | Finishers Project Staff Members | | Tom Adelsman | Director of Church Partnership Network | | Paul Erdmann | Chief Operating Officer | | Colleen Erdmann | Bookkeeper | | Julie Kay Field | Director of Coaching Network | | Paulette Fitch | Executive Administrator | | Renee Ladd | Executive Assistant | | Nelson Malwitz | Chief Innovation Officer | | Don Parrott | President/CEO | | Bill Poff | Web Developer | | William & Amy Stearns | Resources & Training |
| | | | | Finishers Project Board Members | | | | Dave Estill | Victim Relief Ministries (AZ) | | | | | | Dave was raised in the Missouri Ozarks where the Lord saved him at age 14. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1973, he entered the US Air Force. He met his wife Barb during his first assignment in Grand Forks, North Dakota. They moved 11 times and lived in Alaska, England and Panama among other places. During that time they were blessed with two girls, Christine and Robyn. Dave managed business activities and industrial operations on the bases.
In Feb 2003, Dave and Barb finished the first half of their life in Colorado Springs. When Dave retired from the Air Force as a Colonel, they moved to the Phoenix area. Since that time Barb has worked as a nurse-auditor and Dave has been working in real estate and is President of Client Options, LLC. Dave spent 6 months in Louisiana doing hurricane recovery work with the state medical examiner. They continue to seek God’s plan for the second half of their life. | | | | Bill MacLeod | Mission ConneXion Northwest (OR) | | | | | | Bill and Joan MacLeod have lived in the Portland area for the last 26 years, where Bill serves as Pastor of Intemational Outreach at Greater Portland Bible church. They have three almost-grown children and Joan ministers in the church’s pre-school.
Previously, Bill served with the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association and Promise Keepers. In 2001, he founded and currently serves as Chairman of Mission ConneXion Northwest.
| | | | Nelson Malwitz | Finishers Project (CT) | | | | | | Nelson projects himself as the generic Evangelical baby-boomer. Born in 1946, he was raised in New Jersey in a Christian family. He holds an MS degree in Chemical Engineering and served in positions of research and development in American industry for 33 years. Nelson is an inventor with about 15 US Patents and has formal training in methods of Creative Problem Solving.
In 1976 he was City Co-chairman of the Here’s Life America Campaign in Connecticut. He was a founding elder at Walnut Hill Community Church (WHCC) in Bethel, CT in 1982. He has served in many capacities in the church including as an adult Sunday School teacher and is currently an elder for a third four-year term. In 1998 Nelson founded the Finishers Project as a national ministry of WHCC.
Nelson is now working with Australian and Nigerian nationals to expand the reach of the “finishers” movement internationally and is also involved in starting new initiatives to connect educators, technical workers and healthcare providers into missions. | | | | Neil Mammen | Tentmaker Systems (CA) | | | | | | Neil Mammen is an engineer during the day, architecting and designing computer chips, boards and FPGAs and a lay preacher and apologist at night; he has a BSEE in Computer and Electrical Engineering and an MSEE in Solid State Physics and Computer Engineering. He’s a co-founder of 4 startup companies in the Bay Area and one company internationally. He has about 20 issued and pending patents in areas varying from Networking and Packet Processing to Highway Alert Systems.
In his free time, Neil travels and speaks around the US teaching a Rational Defense of the Christian Faith. The emphasis of his latest teaching is titled: Losing My Religion: Why blind faith is unbiblical and the same as superstition.
Neil has two web sites: www.RationalFreeThinker.com (apologetics) and www.TentmakerSystems.com (business), and he
is currently working on three books:
Gödel, Einstein and Darwin: How all 4 Dimensional Questions cannot be answered by 4 Dimensional Answers
Jesus was involved in Politics: Why aren't you? Why isn't your Church?
Blind Faith is Unbiblical.
Neil is on the board of directors of the Values Advocacy Council in San Jose (www.vac.org) and has spoken on engagements for the Family Research Council (www.frc.org).
He and his wife, Anna, have a beautiful baby girl named Mary-Katherine; they live in San Jose.
| | | | Chuck Micheals | Wycliffe Bible Translators (Florida) | | | | | | Chuck and Barb Micheals have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 22 Years, and prior to that, Chuck managed grocery stores in Southwestern Michigan.
Fifteen of the years with WBT were spent in Papua, New Guinea, five in the Chicago area as Director of Recruitment, and the last years in Orlando where Chuck currently serves as the Vice President for Recruitment Ministries for Wycliffe. Barb works with Wycliffe\'s Get Global short term trips.
| | | | Don Parrott | Finishers Project/Paraclete (AZ) | | | | | | Don and Ele have been married for 32 years; they have four grown children and two grandchildren.
They were involved in church pastoral ministries here in the U.S. for 18 years after which they joined OC International and served in Latin America for 11 years, then 4 years in Colorado Springs at the OC headquarters. For the past three years Don has been President of Paraclete Mission Group and lives in Gilbert, Arizona, in the Phoenix valley.
In addition to his Paraclete role, on December 1, 2005, Don was also named President/CEO of Finishers Project, a ministry focused on helping mid-career adults move from the marketplace into missions-related ministries.
| | | | Jeff Springer | Navigators (Florida) | | | | | | Jeff grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, was raised in a loving home and trusted Christ in 1970 through the ministry of the Navigators while serving in the US Army. God used the time in the Army, the Navigators influence and later ministry involvement to bring a concrete conviction about the privilege and excitement of watching individuals mature in Christ.
After the Army, he and his wife continued to be involved in Navigator military and student ministries, while at the same time returning to a career in the family hotel/hospitality business where he has worked for the last 35 years.
Jeff currently lives in Miami, Florida, with Claudia, his wife of 37 years. They have 3 grown children, Matt, Holly and Timothy. Claudia is a high school English teacher. He works with pastors and churches in South Florida as a Navigator representative for the Navigator’s Church Discipleship Ministry, and has been involved with the Finishers Project’s leadership team since 1998.
| | | | John Warton, Jr. | Business Professional Network (OR) | | | | | | John Wharton lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon with his wife, Kate. They have been married 37 years, have 4 grown children and 5 grandchildren. Kate has a landscaping business, Gardenscapes by Kate, and John serves as an elder at Riverwest Church.
John moved from the marketplace to ministry in 1974, serving in pastoral roles, then with the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association. He is on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals, is a ministry coach and director for Ministry Coaching International, and serves as President of the Business Professional Network.
| | | | | | Finishers Project Staff Members | | | | Tom Adelsman | Finishers Project (AZ) | | | | | | Tom is a graduate of Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota and has been active in full-time ministry since 1974. He has served in a variety of capacities over the years including music ministry, church administration, missions, graduate school leadership and numerous other pastoral roles. Global missions continues to be Tom's primary area of interest and passion. He's excited to be serving with Finishers Project as Director of the Church Partnership Network. Tom and Connie have three married children and a grandson. | | | | Paul Erdmann | Finishers Project (AZ) | | | | | | Paul comes to Finishers with 27 years of experience in business and non-profit management. The first 21 years in managing (3 years) and then owning (18 years) a retail lumberyard in the small Northwest Iowa town of Paullina. The last 6 years have been as the Chief Operating Officer/Business Manager for Urban Impact Ministries in New Orleans, LA.
Influenced by short term mission trips in 1996 and 1997 to New Orleans, Paul and his wife Colleen were called by God to leave the business world and to use their gifts and talents in full time service for God’s Kingdom. In 2001, after unsuccessfully trying for 3-1/2 years to sell their successful business, they liquidated it, “left everything and followed Jesus” (Luke 5:11).
The move from rural NW Iowa to the inner city of New Orleans was challenging to say the least. Ethnically, culturally, physically – these were all huge adjustments that needed to be made. But God stretched and grew Paul and Colleen and used them in a mighty way to help Urban Impact Ministries grow into a vital and sustainable resource for the inner city community called Central City.
It was difficult to leave Urban Impact. But God clearly revealed that the Erdmanns had accomplished what God had brought them to New Orleans to do and that He had a new assignment – a new challenge for them - with the Finishers Project.
Paul has held various offices in his local church, on district boards of the Ev. Free Church, and currently sits on the National Board of Directors of the Evangelical Free Church of America.
| | | | Colleen Erdmann | Finishers Project (AZ) | | | | | | Colleen brings 24 years of experience in bookkeeping to the Finishers office. The first 18 years she worked along side her husband, Paul, in taking care of the books for Paullina Building Center in Paullina, IA. The past 6 years she did bookkeeping and a multitude of other office duties for Urban Impact Ministries in New Orleans, LA.
Colleen and Paul have 4 children who are all grown and on their own. Chris (33) and Drew (30) both live near Paullina, IA. Nick (28) and his wife Becky live in Crystal Lake, IL. Daughter Jenn (26) and her husband Kyle reside in Danville, VA. There are no grandchildren yet – but hopefully soon!
| | | | Julie Kay Field | (CA) | | | | | | Julie is the daughter of 2 PK’s (Preachers Kids) and came to Christ in Elementary school. Her early discipleship was influenced by a church youth group she attended which included personal Bible Study as well as group study and evangelism. Over the last 30 years Julie has been involved in leading small groups and other lay ministry leadership.
In 2003, Julie made a major decision to transition from her 1st career of 20 years: she attended seminary and answered the call of her Savior to fulltime ministry.
Julie comes to the Finishers Project with 20 years of retail sales management as well as 4 years of full time ministry and non-profit management. Julie earned her M.A. in Cross-cultural Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Inter-cultural Studies. She holds a B.A. from SDSU and certificates in Mediation, Human Resource Management and TESOL.
Julie has served oversees teaching ESL-Business in Gdansk, Poland and has traveled extensively to work along side missionaries in Philippines and Poland. In 2006, she joined a team from her church who has adopted an unreached unengaged people group in Ethiopia. She travels twice a year in order to help oversee the progress of the Jesus Film translation, meeting the needs of school children and micro loans to poor women and orphans.
Julie holds the title of Proud Coast Guard Mom. Her son Jeff is commissioned officer LTJG United States Coast Guard, Tactical Law Enforcement Teams.
Julie is thrilled to join the team at the Finishers Project as Director of the new “Coaching Network”. She hopes that by bringing talented, spiritually astute and ministry neutral coaches alongside the people who submit their profiles, they will become better equipped applicants for our ministry partners, thereby impacting the Kingdom for eternity.
| | | | Paulette Fitch | Finishers Project (CT) | | | | | | Paulette has been with Finishers since 2000 and has been able to see and participate in the phenomenal growth of the organization since its beginning in 1998. Her previous experience in the banking industry ended in 1979 when she became a stay-at-home Mom. While remaining at home, she began and operated her own business and also volunteered in the public school system and served as a Chapter Leader in a non-profit organization. She has also been active in church ministries, serving in music ministry, short-term mission trips, as a Sunday School teacher, and boys & girls club leader. She and her husband currently serve as Greeters and Life Group Leaders at Walnut Hill Community Church.
She has been married to Ed for 30 years; Ed recently retired from Corporate Aviation and now volunteers with the local ambulance service as an EMT. They have two grown sons, Marc and Kevin.
| | | | Renee Ladd | Finishers Project/Paraclete (AZ) | | | | | | Renee Ladd brings over 30 years of administrative experience, including over ten years in ministry and other non-profit administration. She enjoys the variety in this type of work, allowing her to use her strengths with different software applications while serving others to grow the Kingdom. Renee has four grown children, four grandchildren and another on the way.
| | | | Nelson Malwitz | Finishers Project (CT) | | | | | | Nelson projects himself as the generic Evangelical baby-boomer. Born in 1946, he was raised in New Jersey in a Christian family. He holds an MS degree in Chemical Engineering and served in positions of research and development in American industry for 33 years. Nelson is an inventor with about 15 US Patents and has formal training in methods of Creative Problem Solving.
In 1976 he was City Co-chairman of the Here’s Life America Campaign in Connecticut. He was a founding elder at Walnut Hill Community Church (WHCC) in Bethel, CT in 1982. He has served in many capacities in the church including as an adult Sunday School teacher and is currently an elder for a third four-year term. In 1998 Nelson founded the Finishers Project as a national ministry of WHCC.
Nelson is now working with Australian and Nigerian nationals to expand the reach of the “finishers” movement internationally and is also involved in starting new initiatives to connect educators, technical workers and healthcare providers into missions. | | | | Don Parrott | Finishers Project/Paraclete (AR) | | | | | | Don and Ele have been married for 32 years; they have four grown children and two grandchildren.
They were involved in church pastoral ministries here in the U.S. for 18 years after which they joined OC International and served in Latin America for 11 years, then 4 years in Colorado Springs at the OC headquarters. For the past three years Don has been President of Paraclete Mission Group and lives in Gilbert, Arizona, in the Phoenix valley.
In addition to his Paraclete role, on December 1, 2005, Don was also named President/CEO of Finishers Project, a ministry focused on helping mid-career adults move from the marketplace into missions-related ministries.
| | | | Bill Poff | Finishers Project (VA) | | | | | | | | | | William & Amy Stearns | Finishers Project (AR) | | | | | | World-Christian fanatics Bill and Amy Stearns have jointly authored the Gold-Medallion winner Catch the Vision 2000, Run With The Vision (with Bob Sjogren) and the new 2020 Vision—all adaptations of the core of the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course. Bill has 21 published books, and the Stearns’ mission books and courses have been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Korean. They’ve challenged congregations and trained world Christians from the US to Europe, from Central Asia to Down Under.
The Stearns have traveled extensively and lived in France for five years as part of a church-planting effort and a marketplace-missions business. They currently serve with The Finishers Project and MissionNext coaching mid-career adults into missions, and are developing a team to establish a mission training-exposure program in Spain. |
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