Our Country Directors serve a critical role in ensuring our operations and ministry partners in Africa and in America have all the support they need.
Carole Ward
Founder & International Director
N'Djamena, Chad
Carole Ward is a missionary, leader, and teacher fostering an indigenous missions movement in Northern Uganda and South Sudan. She moved to Uganda in 2002 during a 20-year horrific war, where she served and trained African leaders from all backgrounds to pray.
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Terry-Lynne Goodman
Africa Country Director
Gulu, Uganda & Juba, South Sudan
Terry-Lynne Goodman has devoted more than 30 years to global missions, preaching and teaching in over 25 countries through conferences, Bible colleges, churches, and leadership forums. Raised in a missionary-pastor’s home in Canada, she embraced her faith early and sensed a call to...
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Stephanie Maier
U.S. Executive Director
Florida
Stephanie Maier is a seasoned leader with more than 25 years of experience advancing democratic institutions and empowering communities across 14 countries in conflict and post-conflict regions. From Afghanistan and Tajikistan to Cambodia, Haiti, the Middle East...
Read more"Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful." - 1 Corinthians 4:2, NKJV
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Carole Ward
Founder & International Director
N'Djamena, Chad
Carole Ward is a missionary, leader, and teacher fostering an indigenous missions movement in Northern Uganda and South Sudan. She moved to Uganda in 2002 during a 20-year horrific war, where she served and trained African leaders from all backgrounds to pray.
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Jared Buswell
Chair of The Board
Tulsa, OK
Jared is a widely-learned connector and vision builder who serves leaders and organizations needed in the world today. An aspiring polymath who has constantly sought the whole truth, he has given his service to Favor since 2012 to support this unique model of national transformation
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Michael Blickensderfer
Vice Chair & Secretary
Tampa Bay, FL
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mike Blickensderfer attended and graduated from Ohio University in 1974 receiving a degree in business administration. He subsequently attended Seton Hall University School of Law, receiving his law degree in 1985.
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Alexander Kramer
Board Member & Treasurer
Los Angeles, CA
Alex has over 25 years of financial and executive experience providing finance, accounting, and strategic leadership for growth-oriented private, non-profit organizations, and non-governmental organizations. Alex – who has lived and worked in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
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David Blandford
Board Member
The Villages, FL
For 37 years, David worked at Fort Knox as an operations research analyst, conducting cost effectiveness studies of potential new military equipment, and as an “urban planner,” monitoring design and construction of construction projects on Fort Knox.
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Martha Mott
Board Member
Riverview, FL
Martha Mott has been an international conference speaker and Bible teacher for over 28 years. As a licensed and ordained minister, she has served on various ministry boards and compensation committees. In 2012, Martha founded Hearts Desire International Ministries,
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