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David Ketchum - President / Founder
David and his wife Sue began to acquire a love for missions and people in the developing world while on their first mission trip to Africa in 1984. During the years when David was owner and manager of several small businesses, he spent time overseas involved with various ministries. After seeing the needs and hearing the desires of the people, David committed to developing and establishing a faith-based economic development organization to provide start-up capital and mentoring for Business as Mission initiatives. Mission Resource was launched in April 2003.
Steve Gross - Communications Director
Steve began working with Mission Resource in 2022 to share the stories of lives being changed through small loans in Ghana. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Columbus now but served as missionaries in Haiti while their four kids were growing up. When he isn't promoting the Kingdom work of Mission Resource, Steve is serving as pastor at Sardinia Baptist Church in nearby Westport.
Melissa Burton - Administrative Assistant
Since joining Mission Resource International in 2020, Melissa has found daily inspiration in Acts 20:24: "But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus..." This mission connects deeply with her personal life in Columbus, where she and her husband Bill have lived since marrying in 1996 (minus short breaks for college and military service). They treat their rescue puppy, Scobee, like their child and love filling free time with swimming, motorcycling, and gathering with their large extended families.
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