Four New Members Join LSF Board

31 October 2011

TAMPA – Lutheran Services Florida welcomed four new members to its Board of Directors during the board's October meeting.

William B. (Bill) Horne II of Clearwater

Bill Horne is City Manager for the City of Clearwater, which has a population of more than 100,000.

Horne currently serves as a Board Member for the Alliance for Innovation, Morton Plant Mease Hospital, and the National Forum of Black Public Administrators. He is a Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation Board Member and an ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Church Council Member. He previously served as a Board Member for United Way of Tampa Bay and Directions for Mental Health.

He holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Tulsa, M.A. in Human Resources from Pepperdine University, and M.A. in Political Science from Auburn University in Montgomery. He also holds an Executive Fellows Certificate from the University of South Florida.

Horne was named ASPA (American Society for Public Administration) Suncoast Chapter Public Administrator of the Year in 2002 and received the ASPA Suncoast Chapter Picot Floyd Public Leadership Award in 2006. He was honored as Pinellas County Schools Outstanding School Volunteer in 2002.

Laurel W. Marc-Charles of Miami

Laurel W. Marc-Charles is a litigation attorney with Richard and Richard, P.A., in Miami.

Mrs. Marc-Charles has been a Delegate to the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Churchwide Assembly and twice served as Chairperson of the Miami-Dade/Monroe Conference of the ELCA. She has served Lutheran Services Florida as both Chair and Member of the Miami-Dade Advisory Council.

She holds a B.A. in English from Loyola University and a J.D. from the University of Miami.

Rev. James H. Rockey of Belleview

Rev. James H. Rockey is Pastor of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Oxford, a mission church of the Florida-Georgia District of the LCMS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod). He is a Circuit Counselor for North Central Florida with the Florida-Georgia District.

Pastor Rockey entered the ministry in 1998 after working for the Texas Department of Human Services and for Allstate Insurance as a Claims Manager. He previously served as Associate Pastor at Zion (Fort Myers) and Pastor at Our Savior (Nashville, Tenn.).

He serves as Sumter Ministerial Association President, United Way Allocations Board Member, Sumter County Economic Development Task Force Advisor, Harlem Heights Foundation Board Member, Florida-Georgia District Pastors’ Conference Program Committee Member, and Hurricane Unmet Needs Committee Member for the Florida-Georgia District and Lutheran Services Florida.

Pastor Rockey holds a B.A. in Communications from Concordia College and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary. He also earned a four-year certificate from the Pastoral Leadership Institute.

Jon G. Wareham of Merritt Island

Jon G. Wareham is Principal of Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Rockledge. The school serves children from 2-year-old preschool through 8th grade in Brevard County.

He previously served as Principal and an Advisory Member of the Board of Christian Education at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Belle Glade, Faith Lutheran Church in Sebring, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Marietta, Ga., and the School Ministry Board at Faith Lutheran Church, Marietta, Ga.

Wareham served as President of the Florida-Georgia District of LCMS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) Lutheran Administrators’ Association and a Board Member of the Florida-Georgia District of LCMS School Ministry Advisory Committee. He served as a Member of the Florida-Georgia President’s Convocation Planning Committee in 2002 and 2005, and as Chair of the Florida-Georgia Lutheran Educators’ Conference Planning Committee in 2003.

He holds a B.A. from Concordia University and a Master of Education Degree from the University of South Florida. He holds a Georgia Educator Certificate and a Florida Educator Certificate, both in Educational Leadership and Social Sciences. He earned a Leadership Development Certificate from the Florida-Georgia District of LCMS.

Lutheran Services Florida is a statewide, nonprofit human services agency dedicated to helping all people in need regardless of religious affiliation, age or national origin. Headquartered in Tampa, the agency has more than 60 programs located throughout Florida. Since it was established in 1982, LSF has helped more than 850,000 children and families. LSF’s mission is to bring God’s healing, hope and help to people in need.

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