Meet Our Board

Mike and Joyce Allen

Mike & Joyce are the founders and directors of Nation to Nation International.

Mike serves as Treasurer and President of the Board.  He served as President of NTNI for 20 years.  He has served as a Church Business Administrator for nine years and worked in the insurance industry for twenty.  He attended Rhema Bible Training Center, Broken Arrow, OK in 1984 and is a graduate of Grace Fellowship’s School of the Local Church, Tulsa, OK.  

Joyce serves as Secretary.  She is a Registered Nurse and Mom.  She holds her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Burge School of Nursing and Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.  She is currently a Care Manager at a local hospital.

 

Chris and Lisa Allen

Chris serves on the Board.  He is a Certified Healthcare Leader, a Certified Registered Central Sterile Technician (CRCST) and is a department manager at a hospital in Colorado.

Lisa serves as Director of Media and Publications and is on the Board. She was an English teacher and associate professor with a Bachelor’s degree from Messenger College and a Master’s Degree in Education from Missouri Southern University (MSU). She is now a full time Mom while serving through NTNI.

 

Michelle Fedewa

Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Counseling from Ozark Christian College. She currently works at Allgeier, Martin and Associates as a secretary.

She is a member of College Heights Christian Church and serves there as a small groups mentor and leader of a women’s community. The goal of these groups are to become more like Jesus in the day-to-day.

Michelle is passionate about social justice issues, especially the issue of sex trafficking. She believes the best way to be Jesus to those around us it to love other and treat them with honor and dignity.

 

Josh and Stephanie Howard

Stephanie serves as President and is Mike & Joyce’s daughter. She has been helping with various aspects of NTNI since she was young, including Director of Donor Relations. After graduating from Missouri Southern State University with a bachelor’s degree in communication and business, Stephanie began working full-time with NTNI.

Josh serves on the NTNI Board of Directors, he is a craftsman and owns a woodworking business in the Joplin area.

 

Cherry Urich

Cherry attended Victory Bible Institute (VBI – Tulsa, Oklahoma),  Victory World Missions. She has ministered in third-world countries, both in long term residence and short term trips,  served as an EMT in a hospital setting as well as in disaster relief. Cherry became a chaplain with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in order to better serve in disaster relief.

 

Dan & Holly Toney

Dan & Holly Toney live in Oronogo, MO.  Dan is a pastoral care minister at Christ’s Church of Oronogo.  He has been in full time ministry for over 31 years.  Holly has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and is currently an online diabetes education nurse.  

They have 2 adult children, Caleb and Olivia.  Caleb is a software engineer and Olivia is a NICU nurse.  Dan & Holly met in Taiwan when Dan was on a college mission trip to help out at “The Home of God’s Love”.  This is an orphanage that Holly’s parents, Ted and Bev Skiles, started and ran for over 50 years.  Dan & Holly believe strongly in the importance of spreading the gospel message of Jesus to the world.