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Prior to becoming CEO of World Relief in 2011, Stephan served as the Senior Vice President of Programs where he directed International and U.S. programming. Stephan joined World Relief in 2005 as the Country Director in Rwanda.
Prior to joining World Relief, Stephan served as Director of International Programs for World Hope International, overseeing relief and development programs in 25 countries in the agriculture, education, economic development, anti-trafficking, and health sectors. From 1994 to 2001, Stephan worked for Mercy Ships International as Director of Programs and Training, directing medical, water and sanitation, community health, and capacity building programs for over 300 staff on Anastasis, a hospital ship based in West Africa. Prior to joining Mercy Ships, Stephan worked in the private sector for Anderson & Co where he consulted on mergers and acquisitions, legal matters, treaties, and tax issues for Fortune 500 companies.
Stephan is a Certified Public Accountant and an ordained minister. He holds a Master of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College Graduate School, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Business from the University of Wisconsin.
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Barry Howard, World Relief's Chief Financial Officer joined the organization in 2007, after sixteen years of fiscal and operational management within Youth With A Mission. He was CFO at one of YWAM’s most prolific training centers, located in Colorado. Barry is an ordained minister, has traveled to over sixty countries, and is passionate about the international and domestic work of World Relief. He holds an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Business Management from Regis University, where he graduated summa cum laude. Barry and his wife, Amie, live in northern Maryland with their four children: Noah, Hillary, Abraham and Joshua.
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As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Amy Lucia oversees global brand strategy, church engagement, advancement and communications in support of World Relief’s service to the vulnerable in 40 locations around the world. Before joining World Relief in 2013, Amy served as Vice President of Global Communications for International Justice Mission (IJM). Prior to IJM, she spent more than a decade in various marketing, communication and leadership roles with Microsoft Corporation. During her tenure at Microsoft, Amy was a twenty-five time award winner for marketing excellence and a participant in the company's exclusive leadership development program.
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Kevin Sanderson is Senior Vice President of International Programs and Chief Information Officer. Kevin began working with World Relief in 1991 in Nicaragua. Since that time, he has been a key leader in the International Programs Division, as well as serving four years as the organization's Chief Financial Officer. His focus on agricultural value chains, organizational development and his many years of experience in the field of program design and management, have allowed Kevin to engage diverse roles around the world for World Relief. Kevin holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri. Kevin resides in Maryland with his wife, Alcira, and their two children.
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Dan Kosten is Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs. The organization's U.S. Programs Division primarily serves refugees, immigrants and victims of trafficking. Prior to joining World Relief in 2001, Dan worked for nearly ten years in Africa; initially as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and then with Christian Blind Mission International. Dan holds a Master of Missions and Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College and a Bachelor of Arts from Calvin College. He and his wife, Holly, reside in Maryland with their two daughters, Hannah and Martha Nadine.
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Connie Fairchild is World Relief's Vice President of Advancement. Connie has served on World Relief's development team for most of 20 years, assisting donors as they explore and engage in ministry opportunities. She was born and raised in Viet Nam, learning life-lessons of hope and peace in the midst of war and loss. Connie served as an urban church planting missionary with her husband, Gary, in Indonesia and has served on the boards of the Christian & Missionary Alliance and Christian Women United. She graduated from Nyack College with a Bachelor of Arts in Education.
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John Gichinga is the Director of Spiritual Formation for World Relief where he serves as lead chaplain for all World Relief offices. In addition, John serves as an advisor to the senior leadership team. Reverend Gichinga attended Wheaton Graduate School and Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School. As the former Director of Church Mobilization in the World Relief Kenya Office and leader of the 3,000 member Nairobi Baptist Church for more than 30 years, John provides significant pastoral and leadership expertise.
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Gil Odendaal serves as Vice President of Integral Mission. Prior to joining World Relief he served as the Global Director for PEACE Implementation with Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California as well as Global Director for the HIV/AIDS Initiative under Kay Warren. Other professional engagements include serving as Regional Coordinator for Africa with Medical Ambassadors International and also as Regional Coordinator for Russia and Eastern Europe. He has thirty years of ministry experience as missionary, pastor, educator, leader and public speaker. Deeply committed to the seamless combination of Word and Deed ministry and to unleash the untapped human resources latent in the church worldwide, Gil has developed innovative programs, projects and campaigns which include the effective engagement of short term mission teams to empower the local church globally for implementing wholistic ministry resulting in spiritual and physical transformation of communities. Gil and his wife, Elmarie, were born and raised in South Africa. They have three adult children and four grandchildren.
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 Jenny Yang is the Vice President of Advocacy and Policy, providing oversight for all advocacy initiatives and policy positions at World Relief. She has worked in the Resettlement section of World Relief as the Senior Case Manager and East Asia Program Officer where she focused on advocacy for refugees in the East Asia region and managed the entire refugee caseload for World Relief before their arrival to the United States. Prior to World Relief, she worked at one of the largest political fundraising firms in Maryland managing fundraising and campaigning for local politicians. She is co-author of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in the Immigration Debate, is Chair of the Refugee Council USA (RCUSA) Africa Work Group which brings NGOs and government partners together on the protection of African refugees, and was recently named as “50 Women to Watch” by Christianity Today. |
World Relief Board of Directors
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Rev. Scott Arbeiter - Chairman
Elmbrook Church
Mr. Steve Moore - Vice Chairman
MissioNexus
Rev. John Chung - Secretary
Park Street Church, Boston MA
John Griffin - Treasurer
AARP
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Rev. Leith Anderson
National Association of Evangelicals
Rev. Paul Borthwick
Development Associates International
Katherine Barnhart
Dr. Judith Dean
Brandeis University
Tim Breene
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Rev. Casely Essamuah
Bay Area Community Church
J. Stephen Simms
Simms Showers LLP
Dr. Timothy Ek
David Husby
Covenant World Relief
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Dr. Roy Taylor
National Association of Evangelicals
Mrs. Kathryn Vaselkiv
Bill Westrate
Veolia Environmental Services
Tim Traudt
Wells Fargo
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