Meredith coaches and trains people to live in loving obedience to Jesus and His commands. She loves 2 Timothy 2:2 and is thrilled by the idea of exponential multiplication! She has lived in the Middle East for seven years and has been engaged with catalyzing Disciple Making Movements among Muslims since 2005. She has a Masters of Divinity with Global Missions emphasis and a Cambridge CELTA ESL Certificate.
Jeffery Jones has owned property in Horseshoe Bay since 2007. He and his wife, Candy, have been full time residents since 2020 and he spends most days playing golf, traveling, working with the church, or continuing his now much smaller case load of legal matters. Prior to becoming a full time resident, Mr. Jones was in the practice of law since 1984. Having attended Baylor University and graduated with a Business/Management degree in 1980, he went to Baylor Law School and graduated with a J.D. in 1983. Initially beginning his personal injury practice representing employers of injured workers, he saw a need for the injured to have an effective voice. He decided to become the founding member of his law firm in 1987 and has remained in that position to this day.
His practice has been in full operation since 1987 and he has managed cases statewide in Texas. He has tried numerous cases all over Texas and has represented thousands of clients over 40 years.
Mr. Jones is committed to the community of Horseshoe Bay and has two grown sons who reside in Austin and Lampasas. He is a member of the Church at Horseshoe Bay and is a Bible Study teacher and is a member on various church committees. He is a fan of Baylor Bear sports but realizes he is vastly outnumbered in Horseshoe Bay.
Kwesi Kamau is the Lead Pastor of IMPACT Church in Dallas, founder of Impact Discipleship, and a principal leader of the Greater Dallas Coalition, a coalition of ministries and non-profits providing relief and renewal for Dallas neighborhoods. Monti is a homeschool instructor with Classical Conversations.
Linda Ferster joined Leighton Ford Ministries in 2021 following more than 20 year as an aide to three consecutive Members of Congress, where she specialized in helping ordinary citizens resolve issues with the federal bureaucracy. Earlier in her career, Linda was an award-winning schoolteacher.
Along with her husband, Bob, a former Youth for Christ leader, Linda spent many years organizing, promoting, and managing Christian concerts, festivals, and evangelistic events around the Carolinas, including the popular SonFestival in Myrtle Beach.
Linda serves as LFM’s Mentoring Communities Coordinator and manages special events.
Wei-Han Kuan is the State Director of the Church Missionary Society in Victoria. His role consists of overseeing the work of the branch; raising up new missionaries and the prayer, care, and finances to support them; interviewing missionary applicants, and visiting missionaries on location.
Christine Lee is a missionary to the poor and marginalized of the Toronto area. Following seven years as a pastor, Christine joined UrbanPromise, a ministry to residents of Toronto’s government housing, with a special focus on family support. In 2008, Christine joined LFM’s Rolling Stones mentoring community, and in 2020, began leading a new LFM mentoring community for women ministry leaders who are missionaries to the unchurched.
Tom Lin is CEO/president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Lausanne Movement, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Crowell Trust. He previously served as the Director of the Urbana Student Missions Conference and Trustee of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Missio Nexus, and Leadership & Legacy Foundation. He also spent several years in Mongolia pioneering campus ministry with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Tom currently leads an LFM mentoring community serving global ministry leaders.
Pastor, Spiritual Director, Mentor, and Coach. Courtney is passionate about helping people find freedom in Christ. She earned both her MDiv and DMin at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her ministry career spans more than two decades, including serving Marin Covenant Church, University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, and First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley. In addition, Courtney runs Deep Well Ministries, which is designed to offer women a place to rest, renew, and invest in their spiritual development. She’s affectionately called both ‘word girl’ and ‘RevDocMom’ by her grown daughters, Emma and Camille. Her favorite days include hiking, cycling, or reading in the California sun.
Jim and Suzi recently founded Tandem Spirituality; before that, Jim served on staff at Church at Charlotte in Charlotte for 42 years, 37 as the senior pastor. Jim has a BA in Biblical Literature from Northeastern Bible College, where Suzi is also a graduate.
Jim has also served on various non-profit boards. Most recently on the EFCA Board of Directors, where he was chairman for the last four years.
Suzi has a heart for God’s Word and women. She has brought those two passions together in her work designing and teaching women’s Bible studies in the church and the community. Suzi’s heart is to lead women back to the truth of scripture and the heart of the gospel.
In addition, Jim and Suzi have traveled extensively overseas to teach marriage, pastoral health, and encouragement to national leaders in Ethiopia, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Thailand.
Jim and Suzi have been married for 46 years and have three married daughters and eight incredible (just ask them) grandkids. The Kallam’s live in Charlotte, NC
Scott Palmbush is a Fuller Seminary graduate and an ordained Presbyterian pastor. Currently, he is pastor and executive leader at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Scott has a passion for teamwork and works with churches and non-profits in areas of succession planning, vision framing, and leadership development. He has a vision for a mentoring group in the ECO denomination or forming a geographical cohort in the San Francisco Bay area.
Watauga County, NC – Hurricane Helene Response
