Board of Directors

Meet the Board of Directors: (Bios below)
Steve Gillis
Mike Thomas - Chairman
Timothy Mark 
Wes Cantrell, Jr.
Tasha Whitener

Steve Gillis
Current Position-Founder/Executive Director, Patch Our Planet
Education- BBA from Georgia Southern University
Mission Experience- Served and led teams (Argentina 4X, Costa Rica 3X, Ukraine and Jamaica). He lived/served in Argentina for 3 months with his wife in 2003.  Served orphans in Argentina, Ukraine and Costa Rica. 
Background/Experience-Served on White House panel for International Adoption November 2011. Ordained at FBCW, spent 12 years on local church staffs, Road Pastor for Christian band Newsong, World Vision rep. while with Newsong.  Spoke weekly at Young Singles gathering, church conferences, and FBCW Men's Conference for 3 years as a breakout speaker.  Married for 13 years with 2 beautiful children. 
Twitter - @stevegillis www.stevegillis.org

 Mike Thomas
Current Position- Project Manager at an Atlanta based Mechanical Contracting Company
Education- Graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelors in Industrial Management
Mission Experience- Moscow, Russia working with newly formed churches.  England working with church to minister in schools and churches.  Three trips to Mexico to minister in churches and communities.
Background/Experience - Mike's gift is administration.  He has served as a volunteer and on church staffs in the areas of student ministry, financial stewardship, administration and discipleship.  His desire is to help develop and support a highly effective strategic structure to fulfill God's biblical mandate to care for and minister to orphans.


Timothy Mark
Current Position- Lead minister with Timothy Mark Ministries, inc. www.timothymark.com
Education- BA in Fine Art, Tennessee Temple University, ordained Southern Baptist
Mission Experience- While his primary passion is for the church in North America, Tim has been involved in ministry on five continents so far. His involvement has been with short term mission trips as well as speaking in conferences internationally, most recently with a worship arts conference in Mombasa, Kenya.
Background/Experience- He has been in ministry as a Christian recording artist and evangelist since 1988. Tim is the lead administrator in his non-profit organization and has extensive experience in ministry development from the ground up.

Wes Cantrell, Jr.
Current Position- Young Adult Pastor, FBCW http://www.fbcw.org/young-adults/
Education- Bachelors in Industrial Management, Georgia Tech; MDiv, Southwestern Seminary
Mission Experience- Botswana (2x), Uganda, Israel (3x), Jamaica, and numerous domestic mission efforts as a youth pastor.
Background/Experience- Worked for 2 non-profits, currently serves as Board Chair for 3 non-profits and serves on the board of two others.  Abstinence educator for 7 years teaching in all 27 middle schools in Cobb County, GA as well as most of the high schools.  Trained University students in Botswana to teach abstinence in the country's high schools twice.  Previously worked with the Hope Center and served on the board of Life Resources of GA providing financial assistance and training to pregnancy centers all across the state of GA.  His church is extremely active in Foster Care.

Tasha Whitener
Current Position- Founder/Executive Director of KidS3- www.kidS3.org
Education- BA from Berry College 
Mission Experience- Community involvement with foster kids through Royal Family Kids Camps, Xtreme Life Skills Camps, Job Skills Camps, & Service Camps yearly through Kids3.
Background/Experience- Served at FBCW for 11 years in the Childrens Ministry.  Worked as a Child Protective Services Caseworker with DFCS.  Taught First Grade Sunday School for 10 years.  Director of the Woodstock Royal Family Kids Camps (camps for kids in foster care) since 2008.  Extensive training in working with children in general as well as those in foster care.  KidS3 works with DFCS, many different foster agencies, group homes, as well as foster children and their families.  To date, they have served over 100 kids through their camps and special events.