LCC Board of Directors
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As Chairman of the Board at Lutheran Church Charities, Tricia has applied her personal belief in building consensus to cultivate success, whether it be with leadership, partnerships, or the ministries themselves.
Tricia has a strong business background with multi-vertical experience in both for-profit or nonprofit sectors of healthcare, consumer, financial, education, and technology. She has worked on both the client and consultancy side as a strategist with both national and regional corporations from Fortune 500 to pro-bono work for community groups. Her work in marketing, operations, product development, e-commerce and technology-based platforms gives her the unique ability to support LCC in positioning of its ministries. Beyond her more than fifteen years involvement with LCC, she has in the past or is currently an elected board member of the Advocate Aurora Health Charitable Foundation, Advocate Aurora Health Good Samaritan Governing Council, Advocate Aurora Health Good Samaritan Development Council as well as her involvement in industry related organizations, giving her background in fundraising and the ability understand how to create passion and energy behind a good cause. |
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Lynda is a passionate leader who helps both profit and non-profit organizations achieve their mission. She has served as an LCC Board member for twelve years, previously as its Chairman of the Board. She applies her diverse leadership experiences to help LCC continue to advance their mission of serving those in need nationally and internationally.
As a highly experienced Human Resources leader, Lynda brings a well-rounded, diverse set of skills in a variety of public and private industries with large global companies as well as small family-owned businesses. She is known for developing trust, collaboration, and engagement of leaders and employees across all levels of organizations to align capabilities, talents, and business strategy that create value in world-class organizations. Specific focus and expertise include establishing, building, and redesigning HR functions and teams in rapidly growing environments, and integration and change management leadership for organizations during times of transition and change. Lynda is a former Board member of Crossways International, the former VP of HR on the Board of Trustees at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Palatine, Illinois, for eight years. She has also served on various Human Resources organization boards. Lynda and her husband Jim have two grown daughters and two grandchildren. Lynda has a BS in Speech Communications from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. |
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Tim has over thirty-five years' experience in multiple industries. He also serves as Treasurer on LCC’s Board of Directors ensuring donations received are used to support and further all LCC Ministries.
Tim held various financial positions in Fortune 200 companies including Motorola. He has concentrated in Health Care for the past twenty-five years starting up two Independent Practice Associations growing the second one to the 11th largest in Chicago. He also was the Chief Financial Officer of two healthcare companies. Tim has a heart for helping people in need. He was a board member of Crossways International and served as its Chairperson for the past eight years. He is currently the President of his Lutheran congregation, Secretary of Immanuel Lutheran School Education Foundation, and an at large board member of Good Samaritan Ministries. He oversees meals for members of his church who recently had surgery and also heads up a community meal for 200 people four times a year at Immanuel. Tim and his wife Elaine have two grown sons. Tim has a BS in Business Administration, an MBA, and is an Illinois CPA. |
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Leah is a veteran Lutheran Church Charities board member who currently serves as Board Secretary. In the past she has participated in LCC’s constitution committee, hiring committee, program planning, and volunteering. Her support of LCC’s mission is evident by her long-standing dedication to the ministry.
Leah’s professional accomplishments are as an attorney and real estate broker. Her family has been members at Immanuel Lutheran in Palatine for almost twenty years where she has been involved in bible study, youth ministry leadership, vacation bible school, and serving on a call committee. Leah enjoys volunteering at school, church and with a refugee organization. Currently, Leah also serves as the vice president of the Barrington 220 school board. Leah and her husband Peter have three children. Leah has a BA in Marketing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. |
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Currently serving as a Lutheran Church Charities board member, Dale brings operational expertise in for profit organizations and nonprofit ministries. Previously, Dale worked for a manufacturing and distribution company of nutritional and treat products for animals, starting as an inventory clerk and advancing to Production Manager, Plant Manager, Vice President Operations and Senior Vice President. His vast experience includes overseeing all domestic and international manufacturing and distribution, acquisitions of additional companies and product lines, as well as banking and financial reporting, employee benefit packages and vendor relations. Dale was also Treasurer and Business Manager for the Northern Illinois District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, responsible for handling and reporting of all receipts and distributions, real estate sales, employee benefit packages. He assisted with financial, personnel, and legal issues for over 200 congregations in the Northern Illinois District. Dale and his wife Helen are members of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dundee, Illinois. He has faithfully served in his home congregation as Elder, Chairman of Elders, Finance Committee, Treasurer, Finance Committee Chairman, and Vice Chairman of the Congregation. Dale is a graduate of Western Illinois University. He served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve for eleven years. |
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Serving on the Lutheran Church Charities Board of Directors, Dan provides counsel on the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod theological teachings and extensive ministry experience to support LCC Ministries. He is passionate in servant-minded ministry.
Dan served as pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Readlyn, Iowa from 1978 to 1983 and at Cross Lutheran Church and School in Yorkville, Illinois from 1983 to 2006. He served as district president of the Northern Illinois District from 2006 to 2018. He has also served on several administrative boards over the years, including chair of the Northern Illinois District LCMS board of directors for twelve years, and for twelve years as a member of the Concordia University Chicago Board of Regents, six of those years as chair. Dan and his wife Jan are now semi-retired and living in St. Louis, Missouri where many of their family members are. They have two daughters and two sons, all married, and they have twenty-one grandchildren. Dan is a graduate of Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Nebraska) in Seward, Nebraska and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He and Jan both volunteer with Lutheran Bible Translators and other ministries and both work part time for LCMS organizations. They are members of Messiah Lutheran Church in St. Louis. |
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Currently serving as a Lutheran Church Charities board member, Phil specializes in working with writers, broadcasters, minsters, and communicators. He is passionate about community outreach and engagement.
Phil has extensive marketing and communications experience which includes positions with WOTV-TV (Time Inc.) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, VP of Marketing for Zondervan books, and General Manager at Salem Broadcasting for their FM Chicago station, WYLL, winning numerous local, state, and national awards for programming and production. Phil own marketing companies include: Deodandum, for traditional marketing and Grace Marketing for outbound telemarketing. For over twenty-five years the two companies were able to provide print, radio, television, digital, and outbound telephone marketing for ministries, colleges, and publishing companies. He is presently working on two new projects: BibleLand which adds Augmented Reality 3-D animation to children’s books and Bible stories when viewed through a smart phone or tablet and Christian Holographic Concerts which produces Holographic 3-D concerts for the Christian community. Phil has been active in various organizations in West Michigan and the Chicago area. He currently serves as a Bible study teacher at St. Matthew, Barrington. Former organizations include Ablaze! Steering Committee (LCMS), President’s Advisory Committee Judson University, Elgin, Illinois, past chair of Illinois Governor’s Prayer Breakfast committee, past president Kent County Association for Retarded Citizens, past president Advertising Association of Grand Rapids, board member Promotion Managers Association (PROMAX), and NBC Promotion Managers Advisory Committee. Phil and his wife Roberta (Bobbi) have five children, one with special needs who is already with the Lord, and ten grandchildren. Phil graduated from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, and received his MA in Communications from Michigan State University. |