Executive Committee

Executive Director
Rex Hoffman - rhoffman@ministryofhope.org
Rex is a Vice President at Wachovia Bank in Asheville, N.C. and has worked for the bank for more than 25 years. He has served on the boards of numerous community and faith-based organizations. In the summer of 2004 he and his wife, Tricia, along with their four children, went to Malawi to participate in a leadership retreat with MoH staff, conduct a vacation Bible school and visit the five MoH feeding centers.

Board Development
Jim Hamilton - jhamilton@ministryofhope.org
Jim lives in Laguna Beach, CA, with his wife Carol. For more than 30 years he was a partner with the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Los Angeles and has served as Senior Counsel in the firm since 1999. He is a member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, CA where he has been President of the Board of Trustees and Mission Committee Moderator. Jim is also a board member of Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, a Christian organization that makes small loans to entrepreneurs in impoverished countries.

Finance
James M. Skidmore, Jr. CPA, P. A jskidmore@ministryofhope.org
Jim is a CPA with Skidmore, Harris & Burlingham, P. A. in Asheville, N.C. He serves others by consulting with ministers, churches and other non-profit organizations. He is also the treasurer and an elder in Montreat Presbyterian Church and the MPC Foundation, Inc. He and his wife Jean visited Malawi in the spring of 2005 and set up an accounting system for the MoH Crisis Nursery and the Community Based Orphan Care (CBOC) programs.

Correspondence
Polly Miller - pmiller@ministryofhope.org
Polly has served with her husband, David, as a PCUSA missionary for more than 40 years on the mission field in several countries in South and Central Africa. She continues to be involved in missionary projects in her church, Black Mountain Presbyterian in Black Mountain, N.C. Her daughter, Nancy, currently serves as a PCUSA missionary in Malawi and founded the MoH Crisis Nursery.

Mission Volunteers
Scott Rodehaver - srodehaver@ministryofhope.org
Scott has been involved with the Church of Central Africa Presybterian (CCAP) in Malawi since 1997, and he is a founding board member of Ministry of Hope, USA. Scott is an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma and serves on his Presbytery's Malawi Partnership Committee. His experience with short-term mission trips over the past 17 years has prepared him to serve as MoH's Director of Mission Volunteers. Scott currently is a civil engineer for Wallace Engineering in Tulsa.


Communications
Van Kornegay - vkornegay@ministryofhope.org
Van is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. where he is a member of First Presbyterian Church. He has worked in mission projects in Malawi, Africa with Ministry of Hope and Albania and Kosovo with Samaritan's Purse.



Resource Director
Janet Wells - jwells@ministryofhope.org
A member of San Marino Community Church (PCUSA), and formerly a financial executive with the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Wells holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School and a B.A in Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Ms. Wells transitioned into the field of arts education five years ago in recognition of her lifelong love of music and has served as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.

Members at Large

Pamela Bowman - pbowman@ministryofhope.org
Pam lives in Basking Ridge,N.J. and is an elder in the PCUSA. Currently Pam serves as Interim Coordinator for Local-Global Ministries at First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Liberty Corner (N.J.) Presbyterian Church. She has visited or participated in mission projects in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Outreach Foundation.


Mary Jo Carlson - mjcarlson@ministryofhope.org
Mary Jo lives on Hilton Head Island, SC with her husband Don, and both of them are members of Providence Presbyterian Church. Mary Jo sits on several committees at Providence, chairs the MoH Malawi Mission committee, and has participated in many local mission projects. She has a masters degree in Education and considers her passion in life is helping children.


Carmel Courtright - ccourtright@ministryofhope.org
Carmel is a Vice President with Citigroup in Scottsdale, AZ. She and her husband Dale, son Brett and daughter Katy attend Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, AZ. Carmel is serving her second term as elder in the Children and Youth Department at VPC. She and her family have participated in many local greater Phoenix missions as well as Companeros en Mision - Presbyterian Border Ministries. Carmel and Katy travelled to Malawi in the Spring of 2007 to work with the CBOC's and the Crisis Nursery in Lilongwe - "we will never be the same"

Bill Grayson - bgrayson@ministryofhope.org
Bill and his wife Cecilia live in Garland, Texas, and are members of St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Bill served for many years as Treasurer for the church, and has also served as chairman of the Stewardship, Missions
and Pastor Nominating Committees. Formerly a CPA in the manufacturing and construction industries, for the last seventeen years Bill has been President and owner of a staff leasing company based in Garland.

Bill Kaneft -bkaneft@ministryofhope.org
Bill is the owner and President of Colonial Packaging, a plastics and packaging company headquartered in Columbia, SC. He and his wife, Jan, attend Church of the Apostles, an Anglican fellowship under the authority of the Anglican Archbishop of Rawanda, where Bill is also a member of the Vestry. He has been on short-term mission and outreach projects in Uganda and the Dominican Republic.

Rebecca Potter- rpotter@ministryofhope.org
Rebecca lives in Pasadena, CA with her husband Fred and is a member of San Marino Community Church (PCUSA) where she is an Elder, a trustee of the San Marino Community Church Foundation and a member of the Stewardship Committee. She is the former Director of Development for Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, and after retiring from Westridge, she formed her own consulting business in non-profit advancement.



Ken Root - kroot@ministryofhope.org
Ken is a neurologist in private practice in Mesa, Arizona. He is a member of Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley and has been involved with the church’s short-term mission outreach projects in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and Puerto Rico. He also enjoys volunteering in the Maricopa County Volunteer Medical Relief Core and as a consultant for the Christian Neighborhood Clinic, a medical clinic for the underserved in Phoenix.