Servant Partners Site Leaders
International
site leaders and selected surnames are not listed for security reasons.
Kevin
Blue is a native of Los Angeles. He attended Occidental College
and then served for eleven years on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
as team leader at the University of Southern California (USC) and as
a teaching specialist. He serves on the elders team of the Church of
the Redeemer in South Central Los Angeles, a Servant Partners partner
site, and is developing several
other sites in South Central. Helping to create an on-going partnership
between InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Servant Partners, Kevin
is the director for InterVarsity's summer urban project in Los Angeles,
LAUP.
Derek
E. grew up in Diamond Bar (near the eastern border of Los Angeles
County), and attended Ganesha High School in Pomona (east Los Angeles
County). He attended Occidental College and served on InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship Staff at the Claremont Colleges for ten years. While on staff
with InterVarsity, Derek developed summer urban projects in Pomona for
many years. He and his wife, Lisa, currently live in Pomona where they
help lead the Servant Partners partner site in central Pomona and south
Pomona. He is an Executive Director and the Field Director for Servant Partners
Will
N. is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He
graduated from Stanford University and worked for InterVarsity for six
years at University of California - Davis. His involvement in urban
ministry began in 1990 by helping to facilitate church renewal in a
church in a poor neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles. He was the Director
of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at the First Presbyterian Church
of Pomona from 1993-1996. He was a part of the original visioning group
for Servant Partners in 1993 and pioneered the Pomona site. He and his
wife and three children now live in Colorado. He is currently
the Director of Barnabas Ventures for Servant Partners.
Lisa
E. grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended Occidental
College in Los Angeles. She served on InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Staff for fifteen years first as a campus staff member, then an Area Director,
and, the last two years, as an Associate Regional Director for Southern
California. Lisa has volunteered at several Servant Partners sites over
the last decade years as a tutor, Bible teacher, and mentor. She and her
husband, Derek, currently live in Pomona where they help lead the
Servant Partners partner site in central Pomona and south Pomona.
She is an Executive Director for Servant Partners.