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Kyle Campise
Kyle Campise is a native Southeast Texan, born and raised in the South and Mid-
County area. After graduating from Port Neches-Groves High School, he earned a
B.S. in Communication from Lamar University in Beaumont. Campise also holds a
Master of Arts in Christian Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary.
Campise has served on the staff at Ridgewood Church in Port Arthur since 1994.
He held the position of Minister to Students for 11 years before moving into his
current role as Pastor of Pastoral Care. Campise is married to Trisha, and they
have three sons, Solomon, Samson, and Seth.
Froswa' Booker-Drew
Froswa Booker-Drews has an extensive background in nonprofit management,
training and education. She is the former director of the Texas office of Partners
for Sacred Places. In this role, she built partnerships statewide and nationally, was
responsible programming, public relations, staff, budget, and fundraising for the
office. She is the owner of Soulstice Consultancy, an agency that provides
strategic planning, special event/tour coordination, promotions/community based
marketing, fundraising (grant research, proposal writing and donor cultivation),
program development assistance, evaluations, board training,
consultations/coaching for businesses and non-profit agencies.
She has been a coaching partner for the One Star Foundation providing training
and workshops for nonprofits throughout the state of Texas and is a consultant for
the Kellogg Action Lab of Consultants, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the
Rapides Foundation, and the Center for Nonprofit Management (Dallas) and the
Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations. She is the coordinator of the
Nonprofit Certificate Program at the University of Texas at Arlington (Continuing
Education) where she teaches several courses.
She currently sits on the board of the Texas Association of Nonprofit
Organizations. Booker-Drew is a graduate from Oklahoma City University with a
Master of Liberal Arts in Humanities and a bachelor's degree from the University of
Texas at Arlington. She recently was a part of the documentary, “Friendly
Captivity,” a film that follows a cast of seven women from Dallas to India. Because
of this experience, she has dedicated much of her spare time to finding ways to
support the Dalit children. Froswa recently received the 2009 Woman of the Year
Award by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and was awarded Diversity Ambassador for
the American Red Cross.
She is married to Charles C. Drew and the mother of a daughter, Kazai.
Chris Bottoms
Born in Port Arthur in 1958, Chris Bottoms spent his school years in Silsbee,
where he graduated high school in 1976. In February 1997, he married Patricia
Cartrett, also of Silsbee. Patricia is presently pursuing a nursing degree from
Lamar University, Beaumont while serving alongside her husband. Chris and Trish
have two sons: Chris Jr., who with his wife Kristen and four sons, serves as Youth
Pastor for First Baptist Church in Mesquite; and Patrick, who with his wife Kari,
serves as Youth Pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Groves.
Chris has a variety of life experiences. He has served in the U.S. Air Force, Texas
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve for more than 20 years. He is presently
the First Sergeant for the 301st Medical Squadron in Fort Worth and is looking
forward to retirement in 2011.
In 1994, after many years of lay ministry, Chris surrendered to the Gospel ministry
enrolling in Criswell College in Dallas. During his college years, he served as
Associate Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Dallas. After graduation he was
called to Gerringong Baptist Church in New South Wales, Australia, where he
minister two years before returning to the states to start a new church work in
Forney. In 2007, Chris was called to Friendship Baptist Church in Groves, were he
is the senior pastor.
Chris’s personal interests are varied, but he dearly enjoys refinishing furniture,
wood-working and just about anything to do with the outdoors. He loves playing
golf and gets his monies worth every time!
Grelan Muse Sr.
Grelan A. Muse Sr. is founder of Inside The Pew. Muse is a licensed ordained
minister in Baton Rouge, La. He graduated from Amite (La.) High School in 1981,
and immediately after graduation, pursued and obtained his minister’s license. He
attended Macon (Ga.) Junior College, where he majored in psychology and earned
a theology certificate from Liberty Bible College in Vicksburg, Va. He has worked
in the security industry since 1989, and spent nine years as a correctional officer
for the Georgia Department of Corrections. He currently works as a security
representative for Our Lady of The Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. Muse is also
founder of Emanuel and The Mainline Ministries, a 501 (c) (3) organization he
created in Maringouin, La., in 1998. He has served on several boards, including
New Life Coach Inc.
Dan Wooding
Dan Wooding's career must rate as one of the most unusual in journalism. For he
has gone from being a correspondent for the National Enquirer and a staffer on two
of Britain's raciest tabloids, to an undercover reporter and campaigner for
persecuted Christians in the restricted countries of the world.
Wooding, 69, who was educated at Queensbridge School, Moseley, Birmingham,
England, began his journalistic career in 1968 in London, with The Christian,
Britain's oldest evangelical newspaper, rising to become its chief reporter. He then
moved to the Middlesex County Times in Ealing, London, where he wrote some of
the earliest stories on the Monty Python team, who made most of their programs
in Ealing. After five years with this local paper, when he also became a
correspondent for all of Britain's national newspapers, including The Times, he was
given a staff job as a senior reporter with the Sunday People in London, which has
the second highest circulation of any newspaper in Europe. Specializing in crime,
religion and show business, he has interviewed Ronnie Kray, Britain's most
infamous gangster, Johnny Mathis, Burt Lancaster, David Soul, Paul McCartney
and Ringo Starr from The Beatles. He also interviewed Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
Wooding was also a London-based correspondent for the National Enquirer,
America's largest circulation tabloid and later worked as a senior reporter with
London's Sunday Mirror.
After a spiritual renewal in his life, Wooding left this form of journalism and has
specialized in eyewitness reporting of persecuted Christians around the world. He
has filed stories from Albania, Burma, China, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Egypt,
Gaza (and the West Bank), Grenada, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, North
Korea, Romania, Uganda and Vietnam, to name some of the hot spots. His
articles on Christians being persecuted for their faith are published worldwide and
his weekly commentary was carried for 10 years on the UPI Radio Network in
Washington, D.C. Besides his reporting activities, he also assisted in taking
Bibles to these restricted areas. He has worked as a writer and broadcaster with
Brother Andrew for seven years and also for Billy Graham in Moscow; Essen,
Germany and in San Juan, P.R. He wrote the cover story on Billy Graham, his wife
Ruth, and son, Franklin, for the March/April 1996 issue of the “Saturday Evening
Post,” which is America’s oldest publication.
Wooding is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints
in Strategic Times) based in Lake Forest, Calif., and is the president of ASSIST
News Service a daily news service that sends stories to 2,600 media around the
world.
While still in London, Wooding was a reporter for BBC Radio 1. In the United
States, he has been the co-host of the popular TV show, “The Hollywood
Connection,” as well as a regular guest on the “700 Club,” who once produced a
mini-documentary about him, and on the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Joy
program. He is now a regular host on "His Channel Live," an Internet TV program
that goes out to 192 countries.
For four years now, Dan has hosted a weekly radio show called “Front Page Radio”
which is carried each week on KWVE 107.9 FM in Southern California and on 50
Calvary Radio Network stations in the US and also on Calvary Chapel Radio in the
UK and UCB UK and the Horizon Radio Network (60 stations).
Wooding is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the International
Press Association, and, since moving with his family to the United States in 1982,
Wooding has received numerous awards for his writing.
In 1984, he was awarded the Bronze Halo award from the Southern California
Motion Picture Council for his stories on the “Suffering Church.” The Evangelical
Press Association in the USA awarded him first prize in their 1984 “Higher Goals”
contest for his eyewitness reporting from war-torn Lebanon. In February 1987, he
received a Silver Angel from the Hollywood-based Religion in Media organization for
eyewitness reporting from Albania. The Friends of the Library of the University of
California, Irvine, has honored him with awards for eight of the 43 books he has
written. One of the latest is “Blind Faith,” which he co-authored with his 93-year-old
mother, tells the moving story of her work as a pioneer Braille Missionary amongst
the blind people of Nigeria. Queen Elizabeth has subsequently honored the book.
The Christian Film & TV Commission based in Hollywood, Calif., gave Wooding a
special award for journalism at its annual media breakfast in Beverly Hills, Calif., in
March, 2002.
One of his latest books, "From Tabloid to Truth," came out on Feb. 13, 2004, and
more information on it can be found at www.FromTabloidToTruth.com. He has
recently released God’s Ambassadors in Japan, the inspiring story of Kenny and
Lila Joseph, long-serving missionaries to Japan.
Wooding was born in Nigeria of missionary parents. He has toured Southeast Asia
and other parts of the world as a speaker. He has been married to Norma for 46
years and they have two sons, Andrew and Peter, who are both journalists in
England.
Bea Gyimah
Bea Gyimah is a graduate of Louisiana State University, where she received her
Bachelor of Arts degree (2004) in English. She received her Master’s (2008) from
Texas A&M University. Gyimah’s concentration is Multi-Ethnic American Literature
where she examines the duality of being both an American and a minority within
African-American, Mexican-American, Asian-American, and Native American
literature. Last fall, Gyimah founded the I, Too Am America club which is a student
organization that celebrates what it means to be an American and to be closely
linked to a distinctive ethnicity or ethnicities. Recently, the organization celebrated
Black History Month with a poetry reading and Black History Quiz Bowl.
Besides teaching at Baton Rouge Community College, Gyimah is a diversity
education specialist and a cultural consultant who uses multi-ethnic American
literature as a tool to demystify racial stereotypes. She received her certificate in
diversity training (2008) from the Diversity Training Institute of Texas A&M
University. Recently, Gyimah was awarded the opportunity to participate in the
National Endowment for the Humanities’ Landmarks of American Democracy:
Freedom Summer Workshop. She also serves as an area coordinator for The
National Association of African American Studies.
Kyle Campise is a native Southeast Texan, born and raised in the South and Mid-
County area. After graduating from Port Neches-Groves High School, he earned a
B.S. in Communication from Lamar University in Beaumont. Campise also holds a
Master of Arts in Christian Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary.
Campise has served on the staff at Ridgewood Church in Port Arthur since 1994.
He held the position of Minister to Students for 11 years before moving into his
current role as Pastor of Pastoral Care. Campise is married to Trisha, and they
have three sons, Solomon, Samson, and Seth.
Froswa' Booker-Drew
Froswa Booker-Drews has an extensive background in nonprofit management,
training and education. She is the former director of the Texas office of Partners
for Sacred Places. In this role, she built partnerships statewide and nationally, was
responsible programming, public relations, staff, budget, and fundraising for the
office. She is the owner of Soulstice Consultancy, an agency that provides
strategic planning, special event/tour coordination, promotions/community based
marketing, fundraising (grant research, proposal writing and donor cultivation),
program development assistance, evaluations, board training,
consultations/coaching for businesses and non-profit agencies.
She has been a coaching partner for the One Star Foundation providing training
and workshops for nonprofits throughout the state of Texas and is a consultant for
the Kellogg Action Lab of Consultants, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the
Rapides Foundation, and the Center for Nonprofit Management (Dallas) and the
Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations. She is the coordinator of the
Nonprofit Certificate Program at the University of Texas at Arlington (Continuing
Education) where she teaches several courses.
She currently sits on the board of the Texas Association of Nonprofit
Organizations. Booker-Drew is a graduate from Oklahoma City University with a
Master of Liberal Arts in Humanities and a bachelor's degree from the University of
Texas at Arlington. She recently was a part of the documentary, “Friendly
Captivity,” a film that follows a cast of seven women from Dallas to India. Because
of this experience, she has dedicated much of her spare time to finding ways to
support the Dalit children. Froswa recently received the 2009 Woman of the Year
Award by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and was awarded Diversity Ambassador for
the American Red Cross.
She is married to Charles C. Drew and the mother of a daughter, Kazai.
Chris Bottoms
Born in Port Arthur in 1958, Chris Bottoms spent his school years in Silsbee,
where he graduated high school in 1976. In February 1997, he married Patricia
Cartrett, also of Silsbee. Patricia is presently pursuing a nursing degree from
Lamar University, Beaumont while serving alongside her husband. Chris and Trish
have two sons: Chris Jr., who with his wife Kristen and four sons, serves as Youth
Pastor for First Baptist Church in Mesquite; and Patrick, who with his wife Kari,
serves as Youth Pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Groves.
Chris has a variety of life experiences. He has served in the U.S. Air Force, Texas
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve for more than 20 years. He is presently
the First Sergeant for the 301st Medical Squadron in Fort Worth and is looking
forward to retirement in 2011.
In 1994, after many years of lay ministry, Chris surrendered to the Gospel ministry
enrolling in Criswell College in Dallas. During his college years, he served as
Associate Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Dallas. After graduation he was
called to Gerringong Baptist Church in New South Wales, Australia, where he
minister two years before returning to the states to start a new church work in
Forney. In 2007, Chris was called to Friendship Baptist Church in Groves, were he
is the senior pastor.
Chris’s personal interests are varied, but he dearly enjoys refinishing furniture,
wood-working and just about anything to do with the outdoors. He loves playing
golf and gets his monies worth every time!
Grelan Muse Sr.
Grelan A. Muse Sr. is founder of Inside The Pew. Muse is a licensed ordained
minister in Baton Rouge, La. He graduated from Amite (La.) High School in 1981,
and immediately after graduation, pursued and obtained his minister’s license. He
attended Macon (Ga.) Junior College, where he majored in psychology and earned
a theology certificate from Liberty Bible College in Vicksburg, Va. He has worked
in the security industry since 1989, and spent nine years as a correctional officer
for the Georgia Department of Corrections. He currently works as a security
representative for Our Lady of The Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. Muse is also
founder of Emanuel and The Mainline Ministries, a 501 (c) (3) organization he
created in Maringouin, La., in 1998. He has served on several boards, including
New Life Coach Inc.
Dan Wooding
Dan Wooding's career must rate as one of the most unusual in journalism. For he
has gone from being a correspondent for the National Enquirer and a staffer on two
of Britain's raciest tabloids, to an undercover reporter and campaigner for
persecuted Christians in the restricted countries of the world.
Wooding, 69, who was educated at Queensbridge School, Moseley, Birmingham,
England, began his journalistic career in 1968 in London, with The Christian,
Britain's oldest evangelical newspaper, rising to become its chief reporter. He then
moved to the Middlesex County Times in Ealing, London, where he wrote some of
the earliest stories on the Monty Python team, who made most of their programs
in Ealing. After five years with this local paper, when he also became a
correspondent for all of Britain's national newspapers, including The Times, he was
given a staff job as a senior reporter with the Sunday People in London, which has
the second highest circulation of any newspaper in Europe. Specializing in crime,
religion and show business, he has interviewed Ronnie Kray, Britain's most
infamous gangster, Johnny Mathis, Burt Lancaster, David Soul, Paul McCartney
and Ringo Starr from The Beatles. He also interviewed Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
Wooding was also a London-based correspondent for the National Enquirer,
America's largest circulation tabloid and later worked as a senior reporter with
London's Sunday Mirror.
After a spiritual renewal in his life, Wooding left this form of journalism and has
specialized in eyewitness reporting of persecuted Christians around the world. He
has filed stories from Albania, Burma, China, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Egypt,
Gaza (and the West Bank), Grenada, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, North
Korea, Romania, Uganda and Vietnam, to name some of the hot spots. His
articles on Christians being persecuted for their faith are published worldwide and
his weekly commentary was carried for 10 years on the UPI Radio Network in
Washington, D.C. Besides his reporting activities, he also assisted in taking
Bibles to these restricted areas. He has worked as a writer and broadcaster with
Brother Andrew for seven years and also for Billy Graham in Moscow; Essen,
Germany and in San Juan, P.R. He wrote the cover story on Billy Graham, his wife
Ruth, and son, Franklin, for the March/April 1996 issue of the “Saturday Evening
Post,” which is America’s oldest publication.
Wooding is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints
in Strategic Times) based in Lake Forest, Calif., and is the president of ASSIST
News Service a daily news service that sends stories to 2,600 media around the
world.
While still in London, Wooding was a reporter for BBC Radio 1. In the United
States, he has been the co-host of the popular TV show, “The Hollywood
Connection,” as well as a regular guest on the “700 Club,” who once produced a
mini-documentary about him, and on the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Joy
program. He is now a regular host on "His Channel Live," an Internet TV program
that goes out to 192 countries.
For four years now, Dan has hosted a weekly radio show called “Front Page Radio”
which is carried each week on KWVE 107.9 FM in Southern California and on 50
Calvary Radio Network stations in the US and also on Calvary Chapel Radio in the
UK and UCB UK and the Horizon Radio Network (60 stations).
Wooding is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the International
Press Association, and, since moving with his family to the United States in 1982,
Wooding has received numerous awards for his writing.
In 1984, he was awarded the Bronze Halo award from the Southern California
Motion Picture Council for his stories on the “Suffering Church.” The Evangelical
Press Association in the USA awarded him first prize in their 1984 “Higher Goals”
contest for his eyewitness reporting from war-torn Lebanon. In February 1987, he
received a Silver Angel from the Hollywood-based Religion in Media organization for
eyewitness reporting from Albania. The Friends of the Library of the University of
California, Irvine, has honored him with awards for eight of the 43 books he has
written. One of the latest is “Blind Faith,” which he co-authored with his 93-year-old
mother, tells the moving story of her work as a pioneer Braille Missionary amongst
the blind people of Nigeria. Queen Elizabeth has subsequently honored the book.
The Christian Film & TV Commission based in Hollywood, Calif., gave Wooding a
special award for journalism at its annual media breakfast in Beverly Hills, Calif., in
March, 2002.
One of his latest books, "From Tabloid to Truth," came out on Feb. 13, 2004, and
more information on it can be found at www.FromTabloidToTruth.com. He has
recently released God’s Ambassadors in Japan, the inspiring story of Kenny and
Lila Joseph, long-serving missionaries to Japan.
Wooding was born in Nigeria of missionary parents. He has toured Southeast Asia
and other parts of the world as a speaker. He has been married to Norma for 46
years and they have two sons, Andrew and Peter, who are both journalists in
England.
Bea Gyimah
Bea Gyimah is a graduate of Louisiana State University, where she received her
Bachelor of Arts degree (2004) in English. She received her Master’s (2008) from
Texas A&M University. Gyimah’s concentration is Multi-Ethnic American Literature
where she examines the duality of being both an American and a minority within
African-American, Mexican-American, Asian-American, and Native American
literature. Last fall, Gyimah founded the I, Too Am America club which is a student
organization that celebrates what it means to be an American and to be closely
linked to a distinctive ethnicity or ethnicities. Recently, the organization celebrated
Black History Month with a poetry reading and Black History Quiz Bowl.
Besides teaching at Baton Rouge Community College, Gyimah is a diversity
education specialist and a cultural consultant who uses multi-ethnic American
literature as a tool to demystify racial stereotypes. She received her certificate in
diversity training (2008) from the Diversity Training Institute of Texas A&M
University. Recently, Gyimah was awarded the opportunity to participate in the
National Endowment for the Humanities’ Landmarks of American Democracy:
Freedom Summer Workshop. She also serves as an area coordinator for The
National Association of African American Studies.
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