Lorelei Mah

Board Chair
Lorelei Mah serves with Wycliffe Bible Translators as a Field Representative in the Northeast and in Michigan.  Lorelei has significant success and experience spanning multi-national, multi-cultural, for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has served in leadership at World Relief, as an elder at her church, taught middle school in the Michigan Public school system, consulted in business and technical fields, and worked as an automotive engineer for General Motors.

Lorelei currently resides in Baltimore, MD and spends much of their free time working with their urban church, building the next generation of church leaders.

Pastor Carlton Smith

Vice Chair
Pastor Carlton is the East Side Director or Love INC of Cuyahoga County in Ohio. With his God-given burden for and experience in addressing the needs of the cities, he has worked extensively with church and ministry leaders within urban as well as suburban contexts.

Prior to his work with Love INC, Pastor Carlton served as Lead Pastor of Antioch Fellowship Assembly as well as Executive Director of Christian Family Outreach. He is excited to be a part of Love INC, and sees the ministry as needed infrastructure within the broader expressions of the body of Christ, especially across the cities, to affect those in need with Christ’ love.

Maureen Hansen

Secretary
Maureen Hansen has been involved with Love INC for many years, serving as the coordinator for the Pioneer United Methodist Church food bank in Rock Valley, Iowa. She has also served a term on the board for Love INC of Sioux County (IA) affiliate.

Maureen has worked for the Iowa Department of Corrections for twenty-six years, serving as the Residential Manager of the Sheldon Residential Treatment Facility for the past twenty-two years. Maureen also is an adjunct professor for Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.  She has a BA in Sociology and a Master’s Degree in Administrative Studies.

Maureen has a passion for restorative justice and has been involved in transformational mediation and workplace conflict resolution for several years.

Carley Andrews

Board Member
Carley serves as a foster parent trainer at Astor Services for Children & Families in the Hudson Valley, NY. She is an educator and advocate for youth in therapeutic foster care who have been identified as victims of trauma. Carley previously served as the Executive Director of Mid-Hudson Love INC. She passionately led the affiliate on a journey to embrace a vision for the local Body of Christ united and serving people in need with Redemptive Compassion®. Carley treasures the way Love INC unites individuals from various denominations to be ambassadors of hope to a broken world.

Carley resides in Poughkeepsie, NY where she volunteers in many activities that fuel her passion for leadership development and helping people discover their purpose. She continues to serve her local affiliate, teaching Redemptive Compassion® and Affirming Potential classes.

Will Kendall

Board Member
Will currently serves as the director of savings group program development at HOPE International, where he leads program development, training, and a consulting team focused on equipping local churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America with holistic savings group ministries. Prior to serving with HOPE, he worked at the Chalmers Center for Economic Development for five years, including a two-year term based in West Africa.

Will’s experience seeing churches around the world proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God in inspiring, creative, and sacrificial ways continues to motivate him to serve and learn alongside a diverse and vibrant global Church. He, his wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Ingrid, live in West Philadelphia where they enjoy their neighborhood and a great local church community.

John Ligtenberg

Board Member
John Ligtenberg is the founding Executive Director for Love INC off the Black Hills which started in 2001. John has led the affiliate in taking a holistic approach in walking alongside people on their journey to wholeness and building mutuality between volunteers and participants. John is more excited than ever about the quality and depth of support the Love INC National ministry provides to local affiliates. He is passionate about the calling and capacity of the local church to transform lives and communities and this has driven him in his ministry.

John lives with his wife and five children in his hometown of Rapid City, SD and enjoys watching his children grow right before his eyes, exploring new ideas and trail running.