Advisory Board of Directors
The Torch Missions advisory board of directors oversees all Torch Missions trips. Their primary responsibility is to create mission policy and to implement the rules, policies, and guidelines that it sets forth. The board is dedicated to insure that all Torch trips are safe and that each group or team leader follows proper guidelines. These guidelines are in place to protect the integrity of the Torch Missions name and to make sure that all teams wearing the Torch name represent the organization in a sound and scriptural manner.
Terry Reeves
Terry Reeves currently serves as the president of the advisory board of directors of Torch Missions. He succeeded Tim Hines in 2006 when Tim became the president of IRC (InterAmerican Restoration Corporation). Terry has been actively involved with Torch Missions since 1990. During this time he has led dozens of trips to Honduras. Terry has done full-time youth ministry for several years and has taught in Christian Schools in Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee. Terry currently serves as one of the campus ministers at Friendship Christian School, in Lebanon, where he teaches high school Bible and coaches. Terry is a deacon at the Western Hills Church of Christ in Nashville, TN.
Mark Connell
Mark Connell has served on the Torch board since 1997. Mark has been actively involved with Torch Missions and is a charter member of the board along with Terry and Tim. Mark has spent extensive time in Honduras including years in which he stayed in Honduras for the entire summer. He has led multiple groups to Honduras and has assisted other Torch teams as well. Mark has served as a youth minister since his graduation from Lipscomb and his wife, Lori, is one of the founders of Mi Esperanza, a women’s ministry that trains Honduran women how to own and operate their own business. Mark and Lori are now living full time in Tegucigalpa..
Tim Hines
Tim Hines served the role of President of Torch Missions for several years after taking the reigns from Steve Davidson, co-founder of Torch Missions. Tim has been leading teams to Honduras since 1993 and he and his family lived as full-time missionaries in Honduras for 3 years. Tim worked as a full-time youth minister for 19 years in Florida before moving to Honduras. Since his return to the States Tim lives in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area, where he worked with Hilltop Rescue doing disaster relief work after Hurricane Katrina struck. Tim now serves as the Executive Director of IRC and makes several trips per year to Honduras and Guatemala maintaining governmental relationships, working in Honduras and Guatemala, and assists Torch teams in many different roles.
Brian Steffy
Brian Steffy was selected to serve on the advisory board of directors in 2004. Brian has been actively involved with Torch Missions since 1999 and is a Torch Missions recruiter for the northeast. Brian is an elder of the Kittanning Church of Christ, about 45 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a civil engineer by trade, working for PDOT (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation). Brian is a team leader and has been on Torch trips to both Honduras and Brazil. Besides recruiting, Brian has been on several of the scouting trips looking for new places for Torch Missions teams to work.