LBT board members are experienced professionals with years of experience in business, ministry, and missionary work around the world. Board members are:

• Marlis Norton, Chair – Previously worked in Information Technology project management in the marketing and media arenas; retired and serving in numerous capacities at church and elsewhere
• Nickie Wilson, Vice-Chair – USAF Lieutenant Colonel, retired; varied international and domestic mission experience
• Rev. Dr. Wayne Braun, Secretary – Senior Pastor at Fishers of Men Lutheran Church in Sugar Land, TX, former missionary to Germany
• John Rodenburg, Treasurer – Licensed CPA in Illinois; decades of business experience; president of Trinity Springfield and former longtime member and treasurer of CID LCMS
• Rev. Dr. Paul Mueller – Now retired, served as the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Lutheran Leadership and Director of the Mission Training Center, Concordia University, Portland; Regional Director – Africa and Evangelistic Missionary in Liberia for LCMS World Mission; and full professor teaching mission and outreach courses at Concordia in St. Paul, MN and Portland, OR. He is the secretary for the North American Mission Executives group.
• Jan Wendorf – Former Lutheran high school teacher, past president of the LWML, member of several non-profit boards.
• Dr. Johnnie Driessner – Doctoral Faculty and Dissertation Chair (Part-Time), University of Phoenix; previously served in a variety of faculty and administrative posts at Concordia University Portland, including Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, and Interim President; previously deployed to the Concordia University Educational Network (CUEnet) as Director of Academic Programming.
• Ed Lamb – Retired IT Executive. Currently an Executive Advisor/Life Coach and Owner of Fruitful Connections. Board Secretary at Christ Greenfield Church in Gilbert, AZ.
• Deaconess Heidi Goehmann – Certified EMDR therapist, freelance author, mental and relational heath advocate.
• Deaconess Sonja Baumeister – Program Coordinator for Mission Training Center which helps lay leaders learn to engage in God’s mission in their own communities.
• Crystal Miller – Departmental Administrator in Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Andrew Armstrong – Director of Administration and Operations at Shepherd of the Desert Church and Preschool in Scottsdale, AZ

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