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American Volunteers Click here to see the African Volunteers. Featured below are some of Hearth to Hearth Ministries' American volunteers. Please remember that none of the American volunteers at Hearth to Hearth Ministries receive any compensation and even provide most of their own materials to work with, like paper, stamps, extra phone bills, post office boxes, etc. If you would like to volunteer finding sponsors for African orphans write volunteers@hearthtohearth.org (The African locals that volunteer in Africa receive a small stipend.) Many people want to volunteer in Africa. For someone that is not from Africa to be able to volunteer in Africa they must spend lots of money for the shots and airline tickets. Because of this and the fact that the African locals feel that volunteers are taking their jobs we try to keep volunteers from other countries to a minimum.
Michelle Bozenske Michelle Bozenske is a volunteer who lives in a small town in West Virginia with her husband
James. She has a son, Justin, who has been serving in the US military for Todd Brown Todd Brown, our Hearth to Hearth Ministries Treasurer volunteer, works as the in-house bookkeeper and accountant of a reforestation (or tree planting) company in Georgia. While not a Certified Public Accountant, Todd has extensive training and knowledge in his field. He comes to the table with sound abilities and a world of high-tech know-how and has proven himself to be a valuable asset to the ministry. Todd is responsible for keeping the books for the general ministry funds, the publication expenditures for Spotlight on Orphans, the scholarship funds, and such common funds as the famine relief. He also oversees the Project Treasurers in their finance duties, plus provides the necessary documents to report to our Board—just the basic duties of an accountant. Todd and his busy, missionary-minded family (which includes wife Rhonda, sons Levi 17, Matthew 15, Caleb 10, Joshua 4 and daughter Abigail Suwannee 6), have a country home in Alabama where the children are home schooled.
Rebecca Clifford Michele Cuppen Michele Cuppen, our Hope for Children Center Treasurer volunteer, is the mother of two
daughters, Samantha and Christine, both of whom attend college. She is currently
a middle school teacher of English and computers, having been teaching for eight
years. She has also worked at Port Huron Hospital in a variety of departments,
doing mostly secretarial work, prior to which she helped her husband (at the
time) run a plumbing and heating business where she was responsible for the
bookkeeping. She did payroll, paid bills, and did all secretarial duties related
to that job. Logan Harvey Logan is an eighteen-year-old volunteer. He is
the son of Scot and Maria
(listed below). He is just back from Africa volunteering for Hearth to Hearth
Ministries. Logan was home schooled and last year he took
his GED and started in college. He was only in college for a couple of weeks
when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and he dropped out of college to go
volunteer at a FEMA warehouse in Louisiana. (Logan never really wanted a college
education, he just wants to help people.) After coming home from Louisiana,
Logan got a job working at a group home for mentally challenged men. His goal
while working there was to save money so Logan was not prepared for the want and suffering of the orphans in Kenya. When Logan, along with Brian Hester from Michigan, arrived at Glory Children's Center and saw all the children crying at the gate, begging to come in, they let in over ninety new kids—into a home that was already full with the forty-six children that were there. Logan then took the money that he earned, and some that his parents gave him to live on while he was in Africa, and bought mattresses and things for the new kids. With the new mattresses spread out on every available floor space there were still up to six little kids to a mattress. After a while a little over thirty of the new kids had to be turned back out onto the street because there simply was not room or money to care for all of them. Pastor Moses carefully selected those whom he thought had the best chance of survival and promised them that they would be given first chance to come into the new orphanage when it is built. After a couple of weeks Logan went to Hope for Children Center where there were even more children begging at the gate to be let in. Logan wrote to his parents, sharing his thoughts about what he was experiencing, and you can just feel the emotion in his letters. His father made a PowerPoint slide show using some of these letters. Please view this show by clicking on the link below.
Scot Harvey Scot Harvey is the Director of our Public Relations Department. He and his wife, Maria, are the parents of Logan and three other children—Jordan 20, Linden 13 and Miriam 3. Their home is in northern Minnesota where they enjoy gardening as a family. Maria and the children volunteer at a local food shelf where Miriam loves to pass out supplies to the people who come. Scot works as a registered nurse and works on public relations for Hearth to Hearth Ministries in his spare time. This is the first website he has ever worked on so please be patient if it doesn't look professional yet. We tried to get some professionals to work on it but it is hard to find people who have the time and also can afford to work for free.
Vicki Kritzell Vicki Kritzell was one of the original
volunteers when the ministry to the orphans began in 2001. She and Esther
McDaniel started working with Pastor Maurice Anyango when there were only nine
children to support—a number that has now grown to over four hundred. She
currently works as the Director of our Sponsorship Department for all projects
in Kenya and
Vicki jokes that God retired her from her paid position in accounting, then presented her with a job with more hours, while allowing her to pay all her own expenses! However, the satisfaction is much greater than any other work she has ever done, other than that of being a wife, mother and grandmother. She and husband, Larry, live in a small town in Ohio. They have four children and nine grandchildren.
Pat Kroeger Jerry & Oppah Masarira Jerry Masarira volunteers as the Hearth to Hearth Director for Cultural Affairs. He was a safety officer for an international organization, Chubb Group of Companies, in Zimbabwe, Africa where he initiated and drafted a safety policy for the group. He came to the United States in the year 2000, to continue his education, and was based in Michigan. His wife, Oppah, was the Education Liaison for Hearth to Heath Ministries, working with our African college students. After obtaining a degree in Education, she was a high school teacher for twelve years in Zimbabwe, teaching in several high schools there before coming to the States. She is now a nursing manager at a nursing Home in Keene, Texas. She graduated with an associate degree in nursing in Michigan before they moved to Texas. Jerry and Oppah were blessed with two beautiful sons, Michael and Caleb who just started their high school education and are very active in youth church activities. Jerry Masarira pursued a BA degree in Human Resources and Masters in Counseling. He is also the founder and director for the Fountain of Life Seminars in Keene, Texas, where they are now based. You may access the website: www.fountainoflifeseminars.org
Esther and George McDaniel Christy Oxentenko Christy Oxentenko, the daughter of a historian and a nurse,
grew up in Lancaster, Massachusetts, near Boston. She was the oldest of three
children. She has been happily married for 11 years to her high school
sweetheart, Jon, whom she met while attending Fletcher Academy in North
Carolina. They have two precious boys, Isaac, nine, and Jacob, six. She and her
family currently live in Tennessee. Christy works as the Director of the
Post-secondary Education Department which assists students going into college
and vocational school.
Brenda Renfer Brenda Renfer, our Treasurer for the Glory Children’s Center volunteer, is also the Secretary for the Lake Ann United Methodist Church, a major supporter of this ministry. She and her husband Dave, live in a very beautiful area of northern Michigan where Dave has retired from teaching and also works part time for their church. For several years, Brenda worked in the summertime at a migrant school that Dave directed, and for the past five years they have been very involved in a one-week summer camp called “Summer Games.” Mission work is also an important part of their lives. Each fall they take a mission team to Appalachia where they repair homes so the owners can be warm and dry. They have been married thirty-nine years and have three grown, married children, four young grandsons, and are expecting a new grandchild in early January.
Edna Shaffer Edna Shaffer of northern Michigan, is the Sponsorship Coordinator for Glory Children’s Center volunteer. She is the widow of a retired pastor and has vast experience in both church and mission affairs, currently serving as Secretary to the Board of the Lake Ann Methodist Church. She has supported missions in Africa for over half her life and has been working with our ministry behind the scenes nearly since it’s inception, also being instrumental in starting our “Widows to Widows” work in Uganda. Edna loves to read, garden, and cook, and we’ve been told that she bakes the best pies in North America! She is very involved in senior nutrition and writes a food column for The Record Eagle in Traverse City, Michigan, and the L’Anse Sentinel in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She has also written several articles that have been published in various magazines. Most of all however, Edna loves spending time with her family and working for her church. She is the mother of four grown daughters, grandmother to fifteen, (including her little Beryl at Hope for Children Center), and has eighteen great-grandchildren. Edna manages to keep a close eye on all, even though they are scattered about the country from East Coast to West Coast! Her “walking the walk” continues to be an inspiration to all who are fortunate enough to know her. Her daughter, Vicki Kritzell, is also a member of our staff.
Elyssa Sims Fourteen-year-old volunteer, Elyssa Sims, lives with her parents and
older brother Jonathon, in northern California, where she is home schooled. She
is working with our Public Relations Department, using her skills in photo
editing to help with our website and brochure designs, as well as typing up the
histories for the unsponsored orphans. She has also been involved in
fund-raising efforts by soliciting friends and neighbors, as well as initiating
a website for youth found at
www.youthwithaheart.com. Elyssa's interests include: Reading, the work going
on in Africa, sewing, animals, pen pals, photography, graphics, website
building, cooking and “doing stuff outside.” She also enjoys writing a lot, and
designing things. And, greatest of all her interests is serving God. Sally Specht Sally and her Husband Wallace have lived in Angwin, California for forty-one years. Wally was a physical education instructor at Pacific Union College for thirty-three of those years. Sally worked at the Silverado Federal Credit Union for fourteen years as teller, payroll clerk, and loan officer. She then worked for PUC Prep School, a Seventh-day Adventist parochial secondary school, as Business Manager for twenty-one years. Sally and Wally have been retired now for six years. During three of these years Sally did the Treasurer’s work, first for Hearth to Hearth Ministries and later for the Hope for Children Center project. Because of her involvement with this work she continues to be very supportive and remains on the Board of Directors as an alternate, as well as working in the Publishing Department as the Compiler/Designer for Spotlight on Orphans Extra. Sally and Wally have three children and six grandchildren. They are kept busy with family and friends and love supporting our work in eastern Africa.
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past eight years and resides in Texas. He has served two tours in Iraq. 
that he could go to Africa and see if
he wanted to run an orphanage for his life work. 
Uganda, as well as Content Coordinator for the newsletter,
Spotlight on Orphans. 
