Board of Directors
Scott Gordon
Scott is the President of the Malawi Project, and has served on its Board of Directors since 2007. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Malawi International Bible Institute in Dedza, Malawi. Scott was born and raised in Pocahontas, Arkansas and moved to Indianapolis in 1997. He holds a Master’s Degree with a dual Major in Management and Human Resources at Indiana Tech. He is retired after 33 years as a member of the United States Air Force. He is currently employed as a Program Analyst by the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration at the Indianapolis International Airport. He is a realtor in Noblesville, Indiana and serves as the President of the Federal Executive Association of Indiana.
Mike is the Vice-President of Finance for the Malawi Project and was added to the board in 2009. He was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He left Indiana to attend school at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where he graduated with dual degrees in Ministry and Psychology in 1996. He and his wife, Tami, also a graduate of Harding University, returned to Indianapolis where Mike began his work in community based mental health treatment. Mike also began teaching Psychology at IVY Tech State College. He is currently employed at Community Health Network in Indianapolis where he has been for the past 12 years. He maintains a private practice mental health treatment office in Noblesville, Indiana. Mike serves on the Board of Directors for the Wabash Valley Christian Youth Camp as well as on the Board of Trustees for the Malawi International Bible Institute in Dedza, Malawi. He is a Deacon and a treasurer for the Green Valley Church of Christ in Noblesville, Indiana. Mike and his wife Tami have two children.
Richard (Dick) Stephens
Richard is one of the founders of the Malawi Project and served as the Chairman of the Board and CEO for its first 10 years. He is currently serving as a board member and the Vice-President of Marketing. He has served as President of a design and marketing firm in Indianapolis, Indiana for over 20 years, and still maintains an active hand in the firm. At the same time he spends several months a year working in Malawi, or traveling around the U.S. acquainting groups with the needs of this small nation. He serves as an advisor for a ministry program in southern Sudan and another in central Zambia. He is also a board member with Agricultural Aid International Inc., an Indiana firm that is working to bring self-sustaining farm programs to sub-Sahara Africa. Dick is currently the President of Cornerstone Communications, a publishing firm for Christian literature, and he has authored of 17 books, and articles that have appeared in 30 magazines in 6 countries. For over 20 years he served as the editor of Vidette Publications, a religious publishing firm with literature distribution in over 100 countries. Dick has helped direct mission trips into Malawi since 1995, and he and his wife Suzi have been working on behalf of Malawi since 1993.
Diana (Suzi) Stephens
Suzi is one of the founders of the Malawi Project and currently serves as the Vice-President of Medical Services. She received her Nursing Degree from Mercy School of Nursing in Hamilton, Ohio, and has practiced nursing in emergency room, surgery, intensive care, medical surgical nursing, and psychiatric care for the past 35 years. She is retired from the St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare System in Indianapolis, Indiana. Most of her time is now spent obtaining a massive influx of medical supplies for Africa. Suzi was the prime motivator in the construction of Blessings Hospital in Lumbadzi, Malawi, and has organized the distribution of medical supplies and equipment to over 144 Malawi hospitals. She was also instrumental in bringing funding and resources for the establishment of a children’s home and a food processing plant to assist the needy. She travels throughout the U.S. each year to acquaint churches and organizations with the needs in Malawi and to conduct women’s seminars.
Jim Dillinger
Jim was born and raised in Noblesville, Indiana. He is one of the early members of the Board of Directors of the Malawi Project. Jim graduated from the Sunset School of Preaching in Lubbock, Texas in 1966 and received a Bachelor of Religious Education degree from Rochester College in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Jim has preached for nearly 45 years in the following locations: Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and Marshville, Wisconsin, as well as in Cardiff Wales, Great Britain, Anchor Point, Alaska and the Green Valley church in Noblesville, Indiana for the past 20 years, from which he recently retired to a part time position. Jim is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Malawi International Bible Institute, soon to be constructed near Dedza, Malawi. He also serves as a Chaplain for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department and an Advisory Board member for Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. He has participated in mission trips to Romania and a number of times to Malawi.
Julie Gordon
Julie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Malawi Project and has served on the board since 2004. She was born in Marion, Indiana and raised in Indianapolis. She is a representative for the Indiana Blood Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Julie has also traveled to Malawi to participate and review the programs first hand.
