Meet Some New Trustees For MTM
Ken Giacoletto
Ken has been president of the Green Lake Conference Center in Greek Lake since 1994. The conference center provides youth and adult ministries bothh in the US and overseas. The conference center ministry has been expanded to include a ministry to overseas cottage industries, and Camp Grow a youth camp located on the south shore of Green Lake
Ken is the former treasurer of the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest. He has served as a contract missionary to Zaire, Africa, and prior to moving to Green Lake he worked on a special computer project for International Ministries. With his background in education and extensive experience in business and finance, Ken will be a helpful partner with MTM.
He and his wife, Peg, have two married daughters, Kristal and Katrina, and four grandchildren.
Bobbie S. Patterson
Bobbie retired in 2000 as the associate executive director for the national Woman's Missionary Union. Her last assignment before retirement was in Richmond, Virginia where she helped implement a missions network plan to offer a place for women in all Baptist churches in Virginia. In retirement she works as a volunteer coordinator of the Ruth & Naomi Project, A WMU ministry to develop mission leaders.
Bobbie is a native of Washington, D.C. and came to the national WMU in 1968. Her spouse was the late Rev. Arthur L. Patterson. She has three stepdaughters and two step-granddaughters. Bobbie is a graduate of Carson-Newman College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
While most of Bobbie's work has been with the WMU, she has served as an editor of junior materials for the Baptist Sunday School Board. She was also a historian for the Joint Chief's of Staff in the Department of Defense in D.C. and for the Department of the Army in Leavenworth.
Bobbie's broad base of experience makes her a helpful partner to the mission of MTM.