Board of Directors
Kevin Higgins
Kevin Higgins has lived and worked among Muslims in four countries. In one of those countries, through the work of Kevin and others, movements to Jesus have emerged in more than 10 language/culture groups.
Since becoming International Director of GLOBAL TEAMS in 2000, Kevin has also served in the role of leading others in the work of training and coaching missionaries to work among people groups least aware of the Gospel. GLOBAL TEAMS now numbers more than 200 missionaries from almost two dozen countries.
Kevin is a member of the International Society of Frontier Missiology and the Asian Society of Frontier Missiology. He is a founding Board member of the Asian Frontier Mission Initiative and sits on the Board of Faith 2 Share. He has published articles in the International Journal of Frontier Missiology, St. Francis Magazine, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, and the Asian Society of Frontier Missiology Bulletin. Kevin is currently pursuing a PhD. related to Bible Translation at Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies.
Kevin is married to Susan, and they have three daughters, Rachel, Sarah, and Emma.
Thom Shaw
Thom Shaw is an attorney in private practice specializing in business and estate planning law. Thom and his wife Sheryl are from Florida.
In addition to Global Teams, Thom's ministries include volunteer youth work at his church, helping "widows and orphans" in his legal practice when possible, and praying for people to change their minds outside abortion clinics.
The biggest impact that Global Teams has had on Thom was in teaching him to not assume certain unreached groups cannot ever be reached and not to assume that third world countries cannot be actively involved in sending missionaries.
Tim Vellom
Tim was ordained an Episcopal priest in January, 1986, and over the years has served parishes in four different South Texas communities. Since 1999, he has officiated as the Rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, a small but lively congregation in a suburb of San Antonio. He has a fervid passion for pastoring believers to greater wholeness in Christ while equipping them for service in his Name. Tim is deeply involved in the ministry of healing that the Lord has raised up at St. Matthew’s and several other congregations in the San Antonio area, and is especially focusing his learning in the area of inner healing.
Tim has been married to his wife, Ann, for many years, and their involvement with Global Teams has been energized and channeled largely through their friendship with the International Director and his wife, dating back to seminary days in the early 1980’s. Tim’s interest in seeing the Gospel in the lives of people across the world has been stirred by his eldest daughter’s call to serve the deeply wounded children of Central Africa, and by a developing partnership between the healing ministry at St. Matthew’s and the Member Care work of Global Teams.
Cindi Sholander
Cindi lives in the Washington D.C. area and is married to the Rev. Mark Sholander (ACNA/CANA).
She has 3 grown children: son, Josh (wife, Heather); daughter, Thea (husband, Lucas Ramirez and grandchildren Luci & Max); and son, Sam.
She is currently a free lance editor and writer; but has extensive past employment experience in development and public relations; and as a CLA (cert. legal asst.)
Since 1998, she has been mentored and gifted in the healing gifts of Jesus Christ and endeavors, through His Holy Spirit, to free "captives" from past emotional and spiritual wounds as a minister of inner healing.
She was coordinator, lead healing minister, and writer for The Healing Ministry at All Saints Church, Winter Park, FL at The Glennon House from 2000-2008. She is also a women's Bible teacher and retreat leader. Since joining GTI's board in 2007, Cindi credits Kevin Higgins, Intl Director, and GTI's mission for giving her new understanding and renewed passion for the Great Commission.
Dr. Randy Smith
Randy is Lead Pastor at Faith Community Church in Northern Indiana. He and his wife Tammy have focused their time and energy into church planting, worship leading, and working as missionaries. They served nine years with Latin America Mission, most of those in Costa Rica, where they first became acquainted with Global Teams.
They were personally instrumental in helping a Costa Rican colleague, now a long term GT missionary, first get out onto the mission field. In addition to pastoring, Randy has been an occasional adjunct professor and is currently a board member of two mission organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary.
George Oelschig
Father of two beautiful girls, raised a Lutheran, and then spent 30 years in the Episcopal Church …Now worshipping at New Covenant Anglican Church.
Having spent his entire career in business as a corporate banker and CEO of a mid-sized company with international reach, he now sees clearly God’s plan in using that experience to serve the Kingdom.
Active in C-12 (a group of Christian CEO’s), he continues to sharpen those skills in order to really understand how to witness in the marketplace and to use business in the Mission Field to bring the Gospel to unreached people groups.
He has been witness in recent years to the power of prayer and the miraculous healing, both spiritual and physical, which is done on Earth through his involvement in the Glennon house Healing ministry in Winter Park FL.
Ann Sobel
Ann Sobel is a resident of Moorpark, CA and a mother of two adult children. She has served the nonprofit sector for more than 30 years.
Ann was raised in a family that participated in the community, and her philosophy is to give back to others. This has been a guiding force in her personal and professional life.
Ann founded AMS Consulting in 2001. Focusing on the organization's mission, she demonstrates, through hands-on management, how to grow through discovery, realizing success through implementation along the way