Contact Steven Beam:
Email: sgbeam@foundationformissions.com
Office Phone: 407-730-3364
Mobile: 407-701-7144
Steven Beam
President and Founder
B.S. Anderson University
M.Div. Anderson School of Theology
Th.D. International Seminary
D. Miss. Faith University (Honorary)
Steve and his wife, Sharonne, live between Orlando, Florida and New Zealand. They have four children living and working in the USA, New Zealand, Peru and China.
Steve founded and pioneered the work of Missionary Ventures International from 1983 until 2008 with offices in the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. These offices send mission teams, funds, expertise, aid and relief to over a hundred countries worldwide.
He has over 30 years of experience around the globe setting up nonprofit entities in many developing countries and working with indigenous leaders to establish Bible schools, primary schools, vocational educational programs, community development programs, hospitals, clinics, orphanages, feeding centers, and planting thousands of churches each year.
Sharonne Beam
Administration/Marketing/Website
Sharonne is a qualified Primary School and Kindergarten teacher with over 25 years of teaching, management and supervisory experience in the fields of Elementary, Junior Primary Education, Early Childhood Education and Kindergarten. She has specialized in working with children with special needs.
She works alongside Steve at the Foundation and her responsibilities include administration, marketing, and general website management. She travels with Steve to various ministry projects around the globe.
Contact Sharonne:
Email: shazbeam@foundationformissions.com
Office Phone: 407-730-3364
ShaRi Tarpley
Executive Assistant/Team Travel/Accounting Support
ShaRi is based in Plano, Texas works with the Foundation in Team Trips and Travel, as well as a variety of other administrative areas.
She has over 36 years’ experience as a Travel Agent and has worked in missions for over 17 years. She has previously worked for a number of years under Steve Beam in Team Trips and Travel.
ShaRi has been married for over 38 years to Donald Tarpley. They have 4 children, 2 nieces and 7 grandchildren. She has traveled extensively and has lived in Spain and Japan for several years, while her husband served in the United States Navy for 20 years.
Contact ShaRi:
Email: shari@foundationformissions.com
Office Phone: 407-730-3364
Thuy Dang
Accounting
Thuy offers her skills to keep the accounting and bookkeeping at the Foundation in order.
She has been a lifelong resident of Orlando, Florida, except for two years when she left to attend Florida State University. She is the daughter of one of the missionaries through the Foundation.
She currently works for the Foundation out of Denver.
She works part time at the Foundation on Tuesday and Thursday 10am to 4pm.
Contact Thuy:
Email: thuy@foundationformissions.com
Office Phone: 407-730-3364
Ruth Ellingson
Accounting assistant/administration
RuthE, resides in Orlando with her two daughters. She lives to serve the Lord in all areas of life by partnering with her church and local Christian outreach programs as well as in her day to day life as an independent artist.
She is happy to be a part of the team!
Ruth E works part time to assist Thuy in the accounting department as well as in other general administrative areas.
David and Esther Griggs
Director of Pastoral Care
Esther and David live in town of Dunnville, Ontario. They are the parents of 3 children and 5 grandchildren. He is currently serving as a pastor for the Dunnville Free Methodist Church but has also been a business owner, financial planner and been involved in short-term missions throughout different parts of the world.
As well as being the Executive Director for Foundation for Missions, Canada, David is has the role of the Director of Pastoral Care.
Read more here.
In this capacity he connects and visits with missionaries.
Contact David:
Phone: 289-228-5014
Steve Kreidt
Vice President
Steven Kreidt is an Orlando Christian Businessman and Civil Engineer with KCG. He has worked with Steve Beam and missionaries on projects (bridges, orphanages, community development programs, housing) around the globe for over 30 years.
He is a leader in his church and in the greater Christian community.
He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Foundation for missions.
He, and his wife Wendy, live in Orlando along with their two sons and two daughters.
Contact Steve:
Email: smkreidt@foundationformissions.com
Office: 407-730-3364
Shawn and Lisa Bradley
Pastrol Care Support-Central America
Shawn and Lisa served as missionaries in Guatemala with Foundation for Missions from 2011 until 2017. They now operate in an Ambassador capacity supporting the ministry in Guatemala.
Shawn is currently pastoring a Christian & Missionary Alliance church in Minneola, Florida called Hillside Community Church. Their new church family has been a great blessing to them and they have greatly enjoyed getting to know members of the congregation.
Shawn and Lisa have 3 young adult children. Meghan is currently living with them in Minneola, and is attending Lake Sumter State College. Emma has chosen to attend a local public high school for her senior year. Steven continues to live in Fort Myers and work as a surgical technologist at a local hospital there.
They are transitioning to being part of the support team as Pastoral Care for the increasing numbers of missionaries we have serving in Central America.
Contact Shawn and Lisa:
Email: bradleysguatemala@gmail.com
Norm and Connie Flagg
Prayer Team/Pastoral Support
Norman and Connie are longtime residents of Orlando, Florida where they raised their three children and now have four grandsons.
Originally from Illinois near St. Louis, they responded to God’s call and graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in 1986. Upon returning to Orlando they worked with a local outreach to the homeless beginning a Sunday worship service and teaching programs for those addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Following a missions trip to South America in 1988, the call came to direct a Bible Institute in La Paz, Bolivia, and after serving there Norman became the pastor of the International Church – La Paz Community Church – for three years.
After returning to Orlando, the Lord opened the door to the need for training Christian leaders in Russia following the fall of Communism. There had been much evangelism but few leaders to nurture the new believers. Beginning in 1994 three Bible training centers have been established and continue to operate in the cities of Pskov, Volgograd, and Barnaul Siberia, Russia.
We are thankful for their faithful prayers on the prayer team as well as their role in pastoral care support over the years.
Bob Minotti
Director of Development
Over 30 years of experience in sales, sales management and marketing in several industries including much of that time spent in the Christian publishing world. Earned MBA with emphasis in marketing from Crummer Graduate School of Business-Rollins College.
Bob’s main focus is to help facilitate new opportunities for individuals and groups to serve in the mission field. Whether here at home as a Foundation for Mission’s ambassador, or to the uttermost parts of the earth on a short-term project trips or full time missionary–the goal is for everyone that has a call and vision for ministry, be given every opportunity, a clear path, support, infrastructure, a plan and the connections to go. Together we can remove obstacles that may be holding others back from going, giving, and fulfilling the greatest task ever given to man.