Faithful Servant Missions

• Panama
• Costa Rica

About FSM

Faithful Servant Missions, Inc. (FSM) is a Christ-centered 501c3 nonprofit organization organized as a Florida corporation in 2006. Our driving mission is to serve those whom society has forgotten. We seek to improve the physical, educational and spiritual health of those we serve. Our overall vision is to help people develop a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We operate under the following core principles:

• All people are loved by God
• All Christ-followers should pattern their lives after the example of Jesus Christ
• God’s love is revealed through service to others
• The best way to lead people to Jesus Christ is to meet their needs
• Ministry should be culturally relevant
• Developing creative partnerships to accomplish common goals is important
• Through education and spiritual development, lives will be improved
• Excellence honors God and inspires people

FSM in the News:

 

 

 

Shorelines January 2012

 

 

Board Members

Julie Proctor – President

Julie Proctor was raised in the church and has been a Christian for as long as she can remember.  Her love for missions began with a short-term mission trip to Volcan, Panama in 1999 where she assisted with a free medical clinic.  With a Bachelor degree in nursing and a sincere love for those in need, she has since been involved with numerous mission trips to both Central and South America.  She is a founding member of FSM, and has a passion for reaching the poor, oppressed and the lost.  She and her husband Gary feel that it is their lives’ purpose to assist those in need, and to share their love for Christ through serving others.

Catherine Duffy – Treasurer

 

Cheryl Bradford – Secretary

Cheryl Bradford graduated from the University of Alabama with a Master’s degree in Social Work. She is a licensed clinical social worker. During her career, she specialized in the medical field, working in hospitals, home health care, and a heart and kidney transplant program. Mrs. Bradford has been very active in church outreach and mission programs. She has served as church lay leader, council on ministries chair, and missions chair. She is a member of Beach United Methodist Church.

Gary Proctor

Dr. Proctor has been heavily involved in overseas missions for over 12 years. He has provided general medical services in Belize, Panama and Guatemala. He has also assisted with construction and VBS projects in Chile, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. He is one of the founding members and a past president of FSM. He and his wife Julie are very passionate about missions, especially reaching disadvantaged children. He and his family moved to Costa Rica for 7 months during the start-up phase for the FSM project in Bajo Tejares. The whole family has also participated in short term trips to the FSM orphanage project in Panama. Although trained as Board Certified General and Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr. Proctor provides general medical care on missions and has a great deal of administrative experience. For the last 14 years he has been Medical Director and Divisional Chief Medical Officer for a national behavioral health company. This administrative experience has equiped him in the mission field with the organizational and budgetary skills to assist FSM in operational activitities and other administrative functions. He and his family are committed to a lifelong focus on missions and FSM.

Greg Gause

Greg Gause – is the owner of Advantage Plumbing in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Before starting his own business, Greg worked for Beaches Habitat for Humanity for four years as a construction manager leading volunteers on the worksite. Greg is a member of Beach United Methodist Church in Jacksonville Beach. He has served on various boards at the church, and worked with the youth, where he got to go on his first mission trip to Jamaica. After that trip he knew missions was in his future. Since then, Greg has been involved from the beginning of Faithful Servant Missions in Costa Rica and now Panama where he is passionate about serving the least of the people in these countries. Greg is married and has three children and one granddaughter.

Lynn Northup

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Wayne Moss

Wayne was raised in the United Methodist Church in Clearwater, Florida, and was active in the United Methodist Youth Fellowship. As a junior and senior in high school, he spent time during the summers as a counselor at the United Methodist Youth Camp in Leesburg, Florida. Those experiences probably started his passion for working with students. As a freshman and sophomore at St. Petersburg Junior College, he began a life-long journey of working as a volunteer with the youth programs at various churches. He earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, and then moved to St. Louis, Missouri to work in the chemical industry. While there, Wayne earned master’s degrees in both chemical engineering and business administration. A career change occurred in 1981 that brought Wayne and his wife, Debbi, back to Florida (Lakeland) to work in sales with Nalco, a world-leading industrial water treatment and specialty chemicals company. While in Lakeland, Wayne led student ministry mission trips for three summers to Appalachia Service Project. Wayne and Debbi moved to South Carolina in 1986 and continue to reside there. Over the last 25 years in South Carolina, Wayne has continued to volunteer in student ministry and student-based mission trips, participating in 12 mission trips with Salkehatchie Summer Service, Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project)(2), Appalachia Service Project (6), and Faithful Servant Missions (3).

Gena Lewis

Gena comes to FSM with a strong background in business and fundraising.  She spends much of her time volunteering at her church and her children’s schools, while also assisting various charitable organizations with fundraising.  Helping people who are less fortunate is a value she wants to firmly instill in her family, so she is a strong supporter of our family mission trips.  Gena sees missions as an opportunity to build relationships that can lead to Christ-filled lives.

John Halley

John Halley graduated from North Carolina State in 2006 and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. John’s mission experience began at home, serving urban poor and migrant populations in Raleigh, NC through the YMCA and Neighbor to Neighbor foundation. He pursued missions further serving South America Mission in Peru and Habitat for Humanity before receiving a call to Costa Rica from FSM, where he served from 2007-2010. He is currently on the local board of administration for Rose City Church in Pasadena as he pursues his
studies in theology and missiology.

James Rush

James Rush is from Jacksonville, North Carolina, where he owned and operated a construction business for 35 years. He was a member and Deacon of Cornerstone Baptist Church of Jacksonville. James has served in overseas missions for 11 years with the last 5 years as a fulltime missionary residing in Costa Rica. He and his wife Kay have a heart for missions and are especially passionate about feeding disadvantaged children and working with orphans. James and Kay helped in expanding an orphanage in Honduras and served 3 years on their Board of Directors. James currently serves on the Board of Directors of the orphanage “Hogarcito” near San Ramon, Costa Rica. He serves as the President of the FSM Costa Rica Association and on the Board of Founders for FSM Panama. James and Kay travel to our Panama mission frequently to oversee the food distribution program. James and Kay have founded and lead the Cornerstone Church in San Ramon, Costa Rica, which is an English speaking church.

Jared McDaniel

Jared graduated from GA Military College in 2003 with an Associates in Criminal Justice. For the past six years he has work for Martin Marietta Materials in various positions, most recently as an Office Manager in Jacksonville, FL. He is a very active memeber of Beach United Methodist Church in Jacksonville Beach. During a short-term mission trip to FSM Costa Rica with his church, God softened his hearth and gave him a passion for mission work. Shortly after the trip, Jared joined the board of directors for FSM. In June 2011, Jared will be following the call on his life and will move to our site in Costa Rica as our full time missionary.