GFM Board of Directors
The GFM Board of Directors are highly experienced and compassionate leaders from diverse backgrounds who play a pivotal role in guiding GFM’s vision, strategy, and mission. Their collective insight and leadership enables GFM to continuously innovate our strategies for continued growth and success. In partnership with the Executive Director and Global Leadership Team (GLT), the Board provides strategic leadership, responsible governance, and financial stewardship.
Together, we remain dedicated to training laborers to reach the unreached in our neighborhoods and in the nations.
Board Members
Grant Haynes
Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. He spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim refugees from around the world as He serves in the executive director role for GFM.
Brock Beisel, Chair
Brock found out about GFM through a life-changing Perspectives class in Athens, GA in 2014. Brock Beisel has sat on the GFM Board of Directors since October 2017 and has served as the Board Chair since April 2019. Brock, Jenna Leigh, Evie Jean, and their chocolate lab, Yonah, live in Peachtree Corners, GA and attend Peachtree Corners Baptist Church. Brock works remotely as a Director of Treasury Consulting at Clearsulting. Brock loves to play tennis, hike, and read.
James Key
Jim Key joined the Global Frontier Mission Board in 2019 after taking the Perspectives class. He has worked in finance, supply chain and strategy roles for Fortune 500 companies for 27 years. Jim has been active in short term missions with his wife and two children and is blessed to work with a team so dedicated to sharing the gospel around the world.
Tucker Hargrove
Tucker Hargrove is the managing partner of Hargrove Firm, a national estate planning firm. With an undergraduate degree in Missions, he spent three years with a church plant in Cincinnati, Ohio, while pursuing his Juris Doctorate. Although not actively on the mission field, Tucker is involved in his local church, Ashland Community Church, and enjoys being involved in missions both locally and internationally. He lives in Shelbyville, KY, with his wife and five children.
Kathleen Novak
Kathleen Novak’s ministry journey spans more than two decades and includes missions work across Africa, India, Nepal, and Central America. She has served in board leadership and multi-church mobilization efforts focusing on cross-cultural outreach, partnering with indigenous leaders to strengthen sustainable church planting movements and equip believers to reach the unreached and unengaged. Her calling is shaped by a deep commitment to the Great Commission and a passion for seeing the church mobilized to the nations in accordance with Matthew 28:19-20.
In her professional life, Kathleen serves as an in-house legal operations executive bringing over seventeen years of experience in governance, organizational effectiveness, and strategic leadership in complex, corporate environments.
Kathleen is the mother of four grown children and grandmother to three. She is active leading community groups at her local church, and enjoys hiking, high-altitude trekking, photography, writing, and walking her maltipoo, Ben.
Serving with Global Frontier Missions Board of Directors is an extraordinary opportunity for individuals who believe in GFM's vision for the unreached people groups of the world and are qualified, willing, and ready to meet the commitments outlined in our Board of Directors' Information Packet.
In a recent self-evaluation, 100% of GFM Board Members:
- Report that serving at GFM is a satisfying and rewarding experience.
- Would recommend service on the GFM board to someone of whom they think highly.
Board of Directors Application Process
- Submit an online application.
- Participate in an interview with a board member or the Executive Director.
- Attend one board meeting as an observer to see if it is a good fit.
- Receive approval for the board of directors.
- Accept an invitation to join GFM's Board of Directors.
- Go through a brief onboarding process.
Advisory Board
Additionally, Global Frontier Missions is led by the Advisory Board, partnering with the Executive Director and Board of Directors to provide a specific skill set and prayerful support through strategic decisions. This is an extraordinary opportunity for individuals who want to see the gospel taken to the remaining unreached people groups of the earth, but are not yet ready or are not currently in a position to dedicate enough time or fundraising effort that comes with a board position and a three-year term.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to use your gifts, talents, and resources to come alongside Global Frontier Missions as we mobilize, train, and multiply laborers among the unreached!