Meet Our Executives on the Board of Directors
Executive Board Members:
Mr. Sean Stevens is the Executive Director and Founder of the Board of Directors. He has been an advocate for children for 18 years which includes: service as a member of the Board of Directors for several organizations including; PACE (Parents and Children’s Equality, Inc. of Indianapolis) and he has given expert testimony to the Indiana State Supreme Court and Indiana House of Representatives on behalf of Indiana’s children. He has 23 years of leadership experience working in the fields of Food Service Brokerage, Insurance and as a Consultant. He worked as a Volunteer Firefighter/ EMT between 1994 and 2000 during which time he founded an organization dedicated to the implementation of early access to defibrillation treatment for sudden cardiac arrest in private and public venues. Sean's ministry experience began as a teenager working as a youth evangelist and spending his summers traveling America ministering to youth. Mr. Stevens has served in his local church in many different capacities including: Eucharistic Minister, Lecture, Altar Boy, Usher, Greeter, Bible study group leader and Sunday school teacher for adults, senior adults and singles. He currently volunteers as a Guardian Ad Litem (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children In Need of Services). Sean is also an active volunteer in the lay ministries of Emmaus, Kairos and Chrysalis and he often ministers at the local county jail and state prisons. Sean attended Indiana State University where he studied Sociology with a focus on Marriage and the Family. Sean has been married to his lovely wife Cassie for 6 years. They are proud of their four children, Mike, Alyssa, Danny and Alex. Sean can be contacted through his email: sean@maryscomfort.org
Tom Clark is the Vice President and founding Member of the Board of Directors for Mary's Comfort Ministries. Tom has over 20 years experience as a leader in his profession serving as a project manager and he is now the Vice President of Storage Express LLC, a large regional storage company. He is a deacon in his church, a youth leader for 20 Jr. high school boys, a Sunday School teacher for 70-80 Elementary students, a youth league soccer coach and a VBS leader. He is a graduate of Indiana State University with a BS in BA. He has been married to his lovely wife Wendy for 16 years and they are raising 4 wonderful children. Tom can be contacted through his email:
Advisory Board Members:
Shawna Girgis is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a Master of Social Work degree. She is the first woman mayor of the city of Bedrord, IN. She has served as the Associate Director of Strategic Development and Consulting Services at Hoosier Uplands. Mayor Girgis's areas of expertise include coalition building; grant writing; and program development, implementation, and evaluation. During her tenure at Hoosier Uplands Mrs. Girgis successfully developed the Health Care Professional's Rural Training Program. She has also worked in the areas of health promotion, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention; education promotion; fatherhood initiatives; and emergency preparedness. Mayor Girgis has also served as President of the Board of Dorectors of the Indiana Rural Health Association. Her ministry career includes several years working with the rehabilitation ministry; Teen Challenge. Mayor Girgis can be contacted through her email: sgirgis@bedford.in.us
LIFE Pregnancy Help Center of Orange County
Pastor Randy Edgar
Ministry history
Mary's Comfort was founded in October 2006 from a profound call upon Evangelist Sean Stevens.
This ministry comes not only from the heart of Jesus but from all of the life experiences of Mr. Stevens. As a young toddler, Mr. Stevens became a quadriplegic from an accidental fall in his home. He was only 15 months old. Through the strength of his mother and father, their faith in the Lord and the persistence of medical professionals he was able to recover enough to actually walk again. Then at age 5 his parents divorced. Throughout his life, Mr. Stevens has overcome many obstacles; fatherlessness, physical disability, discrimination, poverty, sickness, loneliness, despair, depression and severe child abuse. Mr. Stevens has been transformed through the blood of Jesus into a loving, kind, honest, compassionate, wise and driven man that daily seeks to fulfill the calling upon his life to empower, encourage and inspire others through Jesus Christ to become more than a label, more than a circumstance and more than one person can imagine. This ministry is all about growth and learning to overcome through success, love and perseverance.
What do other people say about Mary's Comfort and the founder, Sean Stevens?
Karen Cobel of Life Pregnancy Help Center states:
“I believe Mary’s Comfort is a very needed ministry that will tie in well to existing or other developing ministries. I can see this taking root,” Cobel said. “It has a lot of common goals. ... We can potentially have overlapping instead of duplicating ministries that will accomplish more for our communities.”
Pastor Darren Burton of Orange County House of Prayer said:
“No longer can we turn a blind eye to what’s going on. Many times as pastors we give sermons penned on paper of great intellect about our duties as Christians, but until you involve yourself in something like this, it’s hard to grasp true ministry in action. I’d love to see churches step up and support this effort.”
Brad Pickens, Ph.D of the Farmhouse Ministry Inc. said:
“Obviously, there is a great need for this type of service. So many are falling through the cracks of society, I intend to support this ministry and would like to see it work in our community.”
Shelly Dodds from Oolitic, Indiana says:
"When I needed someone to show me that I wasn't alone in this world God sent Sean and Mary's Comfort Ministries. I cried so hard because it was an answer to my prayers".
FBI Director Robert Mueller:
"We together have no higher calling than to protect our children and to safeguard their innocence"
Associated Press report, June 25,2008.
The following is very detailed review of Evangelist Sean Stevens that was recently given:
"Sean has a sincere and genuine interest in helping other people and a strong, intuitive understanding of them. He pro actively connects quickly to others and he's open and sharing of himself. He is an effective speaker. Outgoing and friendly, he enjoys serving God and is lively, pleasant company. A warm and friendly communicator, Sean is able to enthusiastically persuade, stimulate and motivate others while being aware and responsive to their needs and concerns. His outgoing personality and sincere, interested attitude make him easily accessible, and he gets along well with a wide variety of people. He has an active interest in the development of God's people and is encouraging to those he instructs. Sean communicates in an uninhibited, lively, and adaptable manner, drawing others into the conversation. He is skillful at conveying the message from the Lord and how it will help the people he is speaking with. He is generally well liked and trusted by those he meets in repeated contact; adept at maintaining and growing relationships. He is supportive, encouraging and collaborative with his peers and trusted advisors."
"It is such and honor and a blessing to serve Jesus by ministering the love of God to the beautiful children that God sends to our ministry. I can't think of any higher calling than this."
- Sean Stevens, Executive Director
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