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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 and
Melande Antoine
(from Haiti.)
The Antoines have over 25 years of Christian
ministry
in
Port-au-Prince, caring for orphan
running Cite Militaire's largest Christian 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,
s
he was trained
as a nurse and as a midwife,
and she is known around the world as "Moringa
Mama," because of her work promoting
of the Moringa plant as a nutritional
She is the
mother of three lovely
Executive Director: T
homas Patrick Kanell (from the United States)
is a graduate of Faith International
Training School in Fort Myers, Florida. He
has also attended New College of Florida, in
Sarasota, where he majored in religion and
philosophy. He is a certified Christian
Counselor, and he currently works as a minister to
nursing homes in Fort Myers, Florida. Tom also
teaches chess to elementary school children
in Florida and supplies Global Passion
Mission w
ith
videos as its free-lance camera man.
Treasurer: Ms. Carmelita Omli (from Abra, Luzon, Philippines) was nominated as Hawaii Businesswoman of the Year in 2005 by Pacific Business News Magazine. She has a B.S. from Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines in Commerce Accounting, and studied architecture at Mapua Institute of Technology. She has paralegal background from the Hawaii Advocacy Center, and she currently is President/Owner of Omli Solutions, a business, consulting and mediation company in Maui, Hawaii. She is also the founder of an organization for peaceful political reform in the Abra region called, "Save Lives and Save Dignity."
[http://save-lives-and-save-dignity.org]
Honorary Member: Ricot Antoine (Pastor Rigaud's son from Haiti.)
Without Ricot, GPM would have been severely limited
in its ability to do anything in Haiti. He was always
able to
facilitate anything that we ever needed. Ever
helpful, always available, Global Passion Mission owes
our friend Ricot a debt which it can never repay!
Our Location
Global Passion Mission headquarters are located in North
Fort Myers, Florida, with contacts in Miami, Florida,
Kahului, Hawaii, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Although we are presently concentrating in Haiti,
we are committed to have a perspective by which we
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