Marion Medical Mission
Board of Directors

 

Marion Medical Mission is controlled by a Board of Directors of up to 12 members. These are:

Tom Logan:      President
Tom is the founder of MMM who lives in Marion, Illinois and manages a low income housing complex.  In the 1960's, he worked with Albert Schweitzer for 2 months in Africa and spent time with Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and in a Kibbutz in Israel. He worked with Dr. Martin Luther King in voter registration drives.  He graduated from McCormick Theological Seminary. In the 1970's he developed and built low income housing projects in 10 southern Illinois towns, with over 500 of the best and safest apartments in those towns. In 1985, he founded MMM. He has been on over 20 mission trips to Africa.

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Rev. Marlin Otte:   First Vice-president
Pastor of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Marion, IL for 25 years. Long time supporter of MMM and member of the 1996 & 2003 Mission Teams. Highlights of his first trip were assisting in the baptism of 153 people at one service (they ran out of water!) and having the team install 56 shallow wells. I will never forget the joy & gratitude on the faces of the people when they first begin to pump their well and the satisfaction I felt knowing I had helped to make a real difference in their life! On his second trip, he worked with the Lutherans installing wells in Tanzania. He has been on 3 mission trips to Africa.

Jim Nussbaumer:  Second Vice-president
Jim is an electrical and software engineer, retired from a career at Hewlett Packard, and now living in Estes Park, Colorado. Following his initial trip in 1997, Jim became interested in the shallow wells program and since 1999 has traveled to Malawi with Marion Medical Mission every year. He has also escorted groups from his home church on mission/study tours of northern Malawi and has been to Malawi 11 times. When he is in Malawi, Jim enjoys meeting and photographing the people and has produced several video tapes and PowerPoint programs for use in spreading the word about Marion Medical Mission and the people of Malawi. He also manages the MMM WEB site and produced the brochures used to promote the MMM program. He is on the steering committee of the PCUSA Malawi Mission Network.

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Linda is a retired teacher living in Jacksonville, FL.  She worked part-time in the MMM office before moving to Florida.  She has been to Malawi 4 times with MMM, conducting teacher workshops in several schools.

Jocelyn Logan:     Treasurer
Jocelyn is the co-founder of MMM and lives in Marion, IL. In 1966-72 she was a teacher at Cabrini Green, Chicago.  Since 1972 she has helped develop, build and manage low-income housing in Southern Illinois.  She is an elder at First Presbyterian, Marion.  In 1985 she helped organize Marion Medical Mission.  She has been on more than 15 mission trips to Malawi where her major efforts were working  to help build schools in Malawi and installing shallow wells.  She says "Every trip is a rewarding and spiritually fulfilling experience as you see the changes made in the lives of so many as a result safe water and good schools. Uchindami Kwa Chiuta..Glory to God."

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Richard Morgan:    
Dick is an orthopedic surgeon living in Marion, Illinois and traveled on some of the very earliest trips with MMM.
Evelyn Davis:    
Evelyn  was a volunteer in Malawi in the year 2000 and again in 2002. She has studied psychology, worked for 11 years overseas in Saudi Arabia until 1994, trained in Intercultural Relations in 1998, and is now completing a MA degree in Service, Leadership and Management in Sustainable Development. She worked as a volunteer field coordinator for Youth For Understanding, an international student exchange organization.  She believes that MMM is an organization that has really made an impact on people that need it most.

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Joyce Heath:
Joyce is a Registered Nurse and a Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner  who lives in Decatur, Illinois with her husband Bill. They have been involved with the work of Marion Medical Mission since 1997.  She has been to Malawi 4 times with MMMM and spent most of her time working with the Embangweni  Hospital and conducting workshops at various schools and churches. She helps to collect, pack and ship medications, hospital and school supplies for Malawi each year.

Jerry Miller

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Jerry Roush:
Jerry is a pattern maker who lives in Quincy, IL. He became involved with the M.M.M. in 1998 when he went to Malawi for the first time. He has now been on 5 trips with MMM. He says "The experience of doing mission work in Malawi is very rewarding and spirit filled. The only qualification that you need is to have faith in God  and to be willing to do something very special. God will always guide you and all you have to do is trust in him."
Rev. Jack Seibert:
Jack is a retired pastor and missionary living in Penney Farms, FL. He has degrees in Aviation Maintenance and Industrial Education as well a Masters of Divinity.  He has served in India, Alaska and Ethiopia. He was serving the Herrin, IL. church when they funded a sanctuary in Mphongo, Malawi and so he visited with MMM in 1999.

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Rev. Suzanne (nee Vargo) Gorhau

Suzanne is a Presbyterian pastor currently living in Omaha, Nebraska. She's been to Malawi three times, driving for the shallow well program as well as preaching and baptizing. She is delighted to be part of an organization that makes such a difference in the lives of everyone involved.

Leah Covey: moderator (ex-officio member)

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