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Connecting on a personal level is an important part of getting involved. Meet the people behind Global Passion Mission!

Our Board of Directors

President:  Jean Rigaud Antoine
  with Melande Antoine (from Haiti)
  The Antoines have over 25 years of ministry in
  Port-au-Prince, caring for orphan children,
  running Cite Militaire's largest church, 
  ministering in the slums of La Saline,
  running a school for hundreds of children,
  and providing a clinic for Haiti's sick and
  hurting.  They are the parents of six gifted
  children!
 
 
 
Vice-President:  Hephzibah Ene Anderson
  (from Calabar, Nigeria, ten years in Jamaica)
  Hephzibah graduated from Billy Joe Daugherty's
  Minister Training Program at Victory Christian
  Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She is an
  accomplished composer and recording artist,
  and she has experience as a non-profit
  administrator with Harvest Seed
  International in Maryland.  She was trained
  as a nurse and as a midwife, and she is the
  mother of three lovely children.
 
 
Executive Administrator:
  Thomas Patrick Kanell (from US)
  is a graduate of Faith International
  Training School in Fort Myers, Florida.  He
  has also attended New College of Florida, in
  Sarasota, in which he majored in religion and
  philosophy. He is a certified Christian
  Counselor, and he currently works as a minister
  in nursing homes in Fort Myers, Florida. Tom
  also has supplied Global Passion Mission with
  videos as its free-lance camera man.
 
 
 
Project Manager:  Robert Starke (from Surinam)
  Robert is a businessman who has traveled
  to all parts of the world, including Thailand
  and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  His heart is for educating children and he has
  aspirations to build a school eventually in
  Sierra Leone.  He is married to Tonya and
  they have three beautiful children.
 
 
 
 
Project Manager:  Vilmar Ribeiro (from Brazil)
  Vilmar has experience in many areas of
  economics. He is a notary public and a
  published poet!  He ran for city councilman
  in Fort Myers, FL and assisted with our
  Haiti trip in 2009.  He is married to Donna
  and they have three wonderful children.

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Rigaud and Melande Antoine

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Hephzibah Ene Anderson

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Thomas Patrick Kanell

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Robert Starke

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Vilmar Ribeiro

Our Location

Global Passion Mission headquarters are in Fort Myers, Florida, with contacts in Miami, Florida and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Although we are presently concentrating in Haiti, we are committed to have a "global" perspective on where we can make a difference.

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