Faith Community Foundation Board Members*
1. Jim Bryan - FCF Board Assistant Secretary
Qualifications:
- Many years of management experience and has owned his own business
- Serves on the Faith Baptist Bible College Board of Directors
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
2. Jim Burdick – FCF Board Vice Chair
Qualifications:
- Ten years of industrial management experience
- Twelve years of medical office administrationServed as missionary to Haiti
- Formerly served as an administrator for EBM, a not-for-profit mission organization, located in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
3. Daniel Dark
Qualifications:
- Grew up in Africa with his parents who served as missionaries
- Has pastored several churches
- Has served administratively in the areas of development and recruitment
- Currently serves as Midwest Field Representative for Shepherds Ministries
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
4. Daniel A. DiDonato - FCF Board Secretary
Qualifications:
- Member of Association of Healthcare Philanthropy since 1978
- Certified as Association of Healthcare Philanthropy Fellow in 1989
- Over thirty years experience in management of healthcare fund development foundations for health organizations
- Currently Vice President for Development for Shepherds Baptist Ministries in Union Grove, Wisconsin
- Extensive experience coordinating investment portfolios for hospital foundations, ministries, and not-for-profit organizations
- Chairman, Board of Directors for international ministry (IBL) and local (South Jersey) counseling agency (F&PS)
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
5. David E. Durning
Qualifications:
- Over thirty years of experience in the financial services industry
- Certified Financial Planner since 1987
- Registered Financial Consultant since 1997
- Vice President of Great Lakes Financial Management, LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Investment Advisor Representative with Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
- Securities Registered Principal with Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
- Licensed - variable contracts
- Serves on the board of Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania Foundation
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
6. Mary L. Godwin – FCF Board Chair
Qualifications:
- Chief Operating Officer, Co-owner, and Broker for RE/MAX Real Estate Group, Des Moines, Iowa since 1990
- Member of Advisory Board for RE/MAX Real Estate Group
- Real Estate professional since 1983
- Previously served in Administrative roles at Faith Baptist Bible College
- Previous elementary teacher at Emanuel Christian School in Menomonee, Wisconsin
- Served in numerous leadership roles at her local church
7. Daniel Hicks
Qualifications:
- Attorney concentrating in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, business, and tax-exempt organizations.
- Author of “The Will and the Way” for the Recent Developments column published by the Estate Planning Section of the North Carolina Bar.
- During 2002, he presented “Drafting Charitable Remainder Trusts and Other Charitable Instruments” at the North Carolina Bar Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section Annual Meeting
- Member of the North Carolina bar Association – Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Section, Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section Estate Administration Manual Committee (2000-2001),
- CLE Former Committee Chair (2005-present) and member (2000-2004), Section Council (2005-Present) and member (2000-2004),
- Development Committee (2003-2004)
- Member of South Carolina Bar – Probate, Estate Planning and Trust
- Section Legislative Committee (2003-2004)
8. Bill Livengood
Qualifications:
- President and Manager of Commercial Roofing Company, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Owner and manager of various businesses for thirty-six years
- Board Member of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary
- Board Member of Family First of Nebraska
- Board Member of Weathercraft Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska
- Board Member of Weathercraft Co. of Grand Island, Nebraska
- Board Member of Livengood Foundation, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Past Board Member of Lincoln Christian School Foundation
- Past Board Member of Youth For Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Past Board Member of Eastmont Towers Retirement Home
- Past Deacon, Temple Baptist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Past Board Member of Firestone Advisory Board
- Past Owner of numerous construction related businesses in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming
- Served in numerous leadership roles at his local church
9. David Parmerlee
Qualifications:
- Served as an associate pastor of West Cannon Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Serves his church with responsibilities in the areas of finances, administration, and various educational ministries
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
10. Mallory Parmerlee
Qualifications:
- Served as a missionary in Australia
- Serves with international ministries to Iowa State University students through Campus Baptist Church
- Served in numerous leadership positions at his local church
*As of January 25, 2011
Criteria for Board Members
The committee formed in January 2005, prayerfully considered criteria for board members serving on the Faith Community Foundation board of directors.Combined with an awareness that the board of directors is not a deacon board and that Faith Community Foundation is not a church, the committee members recognized that the nature of the foundation activities would require a diversity of experience, knowledge, perspective, and skills.The foundation board of directors is a business board rather than a church board.Accordingly, the Faith Community Foundation Bylaws adopted on January 18, 2006, list the following criteria for board members.A director must meet the following qualifications:
- Subscribe without mental reservation to the Statement of Faith of the Foundation;
- Give a personal testimony of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as personal Savior;
- Be an active member of a local church that has a doctrinal position that is compatible with the Statement of Faith of the Foundation; and
- Be committed to resolving any issues that would cause the Director to be placed under discipline by the local church of which the Director is a member. Should a Director be placed under church discipline and that status continue for more than the period between two consecutive Board meetings, the Director shall be deemed to have failed to meet this qualification. Each Director consents to the local church, of which the Director is a member, disclosing to the Board whether the Director is under church discipline.
The committee members recognized that within the boundaries described above some people may serve on the Faith Community Foundation board of directors who would not be found on most church boards.
