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The College of Prayer International is governed by the following Board of Directors. The Board has the responsibility of caring for the health, growth and purity of the College of Prayer all over the world. This Board looks after finances, prayer-covering and the relational well-being of the College of Prayer International Leadership Team and its members.

	Rev. Fred Hartley, III Member of the Board & President As President of the College of Prayer International, Fred is our visionary leader. He was mentored by Armin Gesswein, whose ideas and passions helped shape the College of Prayer. Fred is also the Lead Pastor at Lilburn Alliance Church, a church located in metro Atlanta, Georgia where he and his wife Sherry have served since 1988. Fred is the author of thirteen books, several of which are on our Resources page.
	Rev. Alfredo E. Gutiérrez Member of the Board Alfredo was born in Cuba and, through political asylum, immigrated along with his family to the US in 1973. He has a BA in Bible and Theology with a Pastoral Studies Minor from Toccoa Falls College and an MA in Intercultural Ministries with an Urban Missions emphasis from Wheaton College. In 2005 Alfredo accepted the call to serve as the Director of Church Planting for the Southeastern District of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, a denomination he has served with since the 80's.
	Don Mullikin Member of the Board Don Mullikin is an alumnus of the College of Prayer, having attended modules at the Georgia campus since its inception. He has traveled to minister with the College of Prayer International in Norway. He and his wife Linda are members of Lilburn Alliance Church in Lilburn, Georgia. He serves as the prayer leader for the church and has a passion for workplace intercession. Don is a manager for Federal Express and enjoys fishing and hunting.
	Doris Kasold Member of the Board Doris Kasold became a member of the Revival Prayer Institute Board of Directors in November 2009. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is an executive at USA Today and oversees the Southeast Circulation, Subscription Marketing and National Customer Service. She is an active, participating member at Lilburn Alliance Church.
	Rev. Raymond Ebbett Member of the Board Raymond graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Chemistry (1974) and from Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, NY with MPS in Missions (1980). For 11 years Raymond pastored churches in Griffin, GA and Dorado, Puerto Rico. For the past 22 years he has served as a missionary with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Costa Rica, Colombia and is presently serving in Spain where he helped initiate the Madrid campus of the College of Prayer. He is married to Mary Sue (nee) Paul.
	Cliff McDonald Member of the Board Cliff came to know Jesus as his Savior out of high school while dealing with his diagnosis and treatment for Hodgkin's disease in which he underwent radiation and chemotherapy. While attending Northwestern University Medical School, Cliff met his wife Lisa. Between his residency and fellowship in Infectious Diseases, they worked for 6 months as short term medical missionaries in rural Taiwan. During this time, they first felt God calling them to adopt children as they cared for Cliff's older sister's son, Spenser, who was born with Down's Syndrome. Cliff and Lisa have now adopted a total of 8 children from Taiwan, Ecuador, China, and Ethiopia. They spent another 18 months in Taiwan during 1999 and 2000 where they worked as tentmaker missionaries. In 2003 they settled in the Atlanta area where Cliff now works for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The McDonald's are members of Lilburn Alliance Church where they have ministered together in a number of ways to internationals.
	Don Mathis Member of the Board Don is the president of a commercial development firm, Capstone, LLC. He has overseen the construction of countless Chick-fil-a restaurants, IHOP, Banana Republic, and numerous other buildings. In the past Don has worked with the development of Microtel Inns, Hawthorne Suites, Ramada Inn, Howard Johnson's, Days Inn, Popeye's Chicken, Churches Chicken and Hardee's. Don and his wife, Cookie, have been members of Lilburn Alliance Church for the past 19 years. Currently, Don is the lead Elder at LAC.
	Peter Pifer Member of the Board Peter "Pete" M. Pifer has been a member of Lilburn Alliance Church for five years. He is Chairman and CEO of ETI Software Solutions which he founded in 1992. ETI has been a very successful venture with growth in revenues and profits every year since its inception. He reports that employee turnover and customer complaints are virtually non-existent due to God's presence surrounding the company. Pete is an electrical engineering graduate of Ohio State University and later graduated from Harvard Business School. His hobbies include Barbershop Quartet singing and deep sea fishing with his son and grandson.
	Reid Nygaard Member of the Board Bio coming soon!
	Rev. Chris Greaves Member of the Board Chris has been pastoring the Rainbow Springs Village Church in Dunnellon, Florida since 1999. While Chris loves serving the Lord in the local church and in various capacities for the College of Prayer, he feels really blessed by God to be a dad of three amazing kids and a husband to a beautiful woman.