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Meet the
Staff
Paulette Fitch
Paulette has been with Finishers, as
Executive Assistant to Nelson Malwitz, 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 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 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.
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Finishers Invades
Portland!
The Finishers staff,
board members, potential future staff and several
Partners agencies will all descend on Portland, OR, in
just a few days ---January 16 - 20!
MissionConneXion 2008 is the central drawing card
and we are adding to the mix.
- Wednesday,
16th, Noon, Business Luncheon
for MissionConneXion Northwest
2008
- Wednesday,
16th, 6 PM, Finishers Staff Meeting:
An important time for us since we are normally
scattered around the nation.
- Thursday,
17th, 8:30 AM, Finishers Board
Meeting: One of our two yearly face-to-face
meetings.
- Thursday evening,
17th, 7:30 PM, Friend/Fund Raising Dessert
at George
Fox Portland Campus
- Friday morning,
18th, 8 AM, One of our two yearly Partners
meetings, for mission agencies who are Finishers
Partners
- Friday afternoon
and Saturday, 18th & 19th,
MissionConneXion 2008 at Rolling Hills Community
Church
www.missionconnexion.com
- Sunday evening,
20th, 6:00 PM, Friend/Fund Raising Dessert
at President's Lounge,
Armstrong Hall at Western Baptist Theological Seminary
(55112 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., Portland,
OR)
If you are in the
Portland area or planning to attend MissionConneXion,
please visit us at one of the Desserts, find our display
table at the conference or attend one of the many
workshops we'll be presenting during this exciting
missions
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Business
As Mission:
The Next Great Wave of
Evangelization
"Commit thy ways to the Lord,
trust also in him, and he shall bring it to
pass."
Most of us would recognize these
words as coming from Psalm 37, but they are also the
Vision Statement for Galtronics and are displayed over
the entrance to their 300-plus employee factory in
Israel.
Started in 1978 by Ken Crowell, they now also
have plants in China and South Korea which are managed
by believers.
In those early days Ken was trying to combine
commerce with a Christian witness. His pioneering
efforts have helped pave the way for an exploding
movement sometimes referred to as Business As Mission
(BAM).
This short summary of
Ken's ministry was taken from the November issue of
Christianity Today. We encourage you
to get a copy of that issue, read all the related
articles, as well as find additional books and
information on "kingdom business", "kingdom companies",
"for-profit missions", "market-place missions"
"micro-enterprise missions" and "Great Commission
companies."
In Finishers we believe
that Boomers are part of God's plan for expanding his
kingdom at this time in history. The market-place
skills and experience represented in the Boomer
generation are the elements needed to further develop
this present-day strategy for kingdom growth. We are a
generation uniquely prepared by God to leave a kingdom
legacy.
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This is the front entrance
of our new office building! We are
blessed!
We've
Moved!
Last month we told you that we were going to be
moving our offices. That move has taken place and
we are settled in to our new "digs"!
We
are extremely pleased with and thankful for the
wonderful office space that God has provided for
us! It will ultimately make us more efficient and
productive in all that we do.
We
have just over 2,000 square feet with a beautiful
reception area, 4 offices, a conference room, a
copy/storage room, kitchenette, restroom and a large
open area where we can set up cubicles for additonal
offices as needed.
Please make note of our new address:
Finishers Project
3303 S Lindsay Rd
Suite 108
Gilbert, AZ 85297
Our
phone numbers and email addresses are still
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Another
"Yea God" Story: It's A
Journey!
Charlene and I
are now assigned to an Austrian ministry that provides
church-based Biblical training and we will be serving
out of Germany. Thanks again! Our mission
journey started in Charlotte, NC at a Finishers Forum
more than five years ago. Our journey is still
just beginning We suggest you consider creating
another form with a name like "Praise the Lord, the Real
Journey Begins!" Your servants and friends, Dan
& Charlene
Scarborough. |
 God
Has Provided - Again & Again!
 We are excited to
introduce you to
Bill Poff and Julie
Field who have just joined
the Finishers Project team!
Bill is our new Web
Developer.
We are
very thankful for
God's provision of Bill and thrilled to
see our staff growing in this strategic area.
Bill grew up in a small town in Virginia where he
attended a picturesque country church with family,
friends and neighbors. He met his wife, Kathy, in church
and still attends the same church to this day, where he
laughingly refers to himself as the bouncer in the
preschool Sunday school class.
Bill has been involved in
the advertising business, in Web development and
hosting, is a professional photographer and will
continue his photography as well as working with
Finishers.
He will be taking our various websites to another
level and adding many upgrades designed to better serve
our inquirers and ministry partners. Bill, we're glad
you're with us!!
Julie joins us as the
Director of the Coaching Network. She comes to
Finishers with 20 years of retail sales management
experience as well as 4 years of full time ministry and
non-profit management.
She has served oversees teaching ESL-Business in
Gdansk, Poland and has traveled extensively to work
along side missionaries in the Philippines and Poland.
In 2006 she joined a team from her church who have
adopted a 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 is thrilled to join the team at the Finishers
Project. She hopes that by bringing talented,
spiritually astute and ministry neutral coaches
alongside the people who submit their profiles that
they will become better eqipped applicants for our
ministry partners, thereby impacting the Kingdom for
eternity.
Welcome aboard
Julie! | |
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Don
Parrott
CEO,The Finishers Project
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