Board Member Bios

General Officers

Pam White, Chair - Pam is a member of The Ridge Church in Carbondale.  She is a Sunday School teacher with a heart for local and international missions. A retired music teacher, Pam enjoys playing clarinet in her local community college band and orchestra. She is the widowed mother of three adults, and grandmother to four children. She views her main contributions to BFI as communication, addressing policy matters, and prayer.

Brent Cloyd, Vice Chair - Brent is a member of Northside Baptist Church in Fairfield.  He has been a pastor in Illinois for most of his 43-year ministry. For the past six years he has served as the Associational Missions Strategist (AMS) for the Greater Wabash Baptist Association.  He remembers his grandfather saying “If the Lord gives us the land, then we ought to leave it in better shape than it was when we found it”. Brent has held those words in his heart as a guiding principle of stewardship. He hopes his legacy is that he leaves something behind that others can build upon rather than something that others must repair or discard. 

Committee Chairs

Administrative Committee - Paul Stanford, Brent Cloyd, Sheila Brown-Walker, Scott Andrews, Christine Miller, Pam White, Dan Ahlenius

Investment Committee - Tom Leach, Kyle Edmiston, Bruce Guebert, Richard Harris, Thomas Van Horn, Steve Wright

Scholarship Committee - Greg Kyrouac, Anthony Richardson, Brenda Spada, Julian Williams,