Staff & Leadership

Kyle Douglass
Executive Director
Kyle's Blog

Kyle's first international travel experience was as a 15 year old on a mission trip to Panama in 1996 with Teen Mania ministries. The month long experience exposed him to a whole new world of culture, poverty and ministry. The following year he traveled again with Teen Mania to Spain and Morocco and felt the call to full-time Chrisitan ministry. As a sophomore in college, immediately after his wedding to wife Nicole, he started as the part-time youth pastor at his home church in Portage, MI, and later would take a full-time youth ministry position at a church in his hometown of Schoolcraft, MI, for a total of 5 years as a youth pastor. In 2005, Kyle left his youth ministry position to rethink the direction of his life. The family moved to Grand Rapids, MI, where he was challenged by his church to become involved in Africa. At the same time, he was introduced to a fledgling organization called Orphan Justice Mission. After moving back to the Kalamazoo area as Sales and Marketing Director for Miracle Camp and Retreat Center in 2006, he took a solo trip to Uganda and Kenya to get a first hand glimpse of the orphan crisis and was able to connect with some members from OJM who happened to be traveling to Uganda at the same time. Following the trip, Kyle, Tim Stoner and Bill Terpstra discussed ministry methodologies and the future direction of OJM and a partnership was formed. Kyle moved from volunteer to board member to part-time Executive Director over a three year span. In November 2009, Kyle and his family made the decision to leave the camp position and become OJM's first full-time Executive Director. "OJM is a dream-come-true for me," he says. "It's a privilege and honor for me to be able to help find lasting solutions to the orphan crisis. It's a perfect fit for my love of the church, love of kids, need for adventure and my deep passion for helping Chrisitians make a tangible difference in the world."

Kyle is a graduate of Western Michigan University with a Bachelor's degree in the liberal arts. He is currently pursuing his Master's in International Development Administration, also at WMU. He is the volunteer pastor for a church plant in the Portage area, loves bicycling, motorcycles, public speaking, reading, board games, dics golf, photography and computer programming. He, his wife Nikki and their three girls live in Mattawan, MI.

Paul Seruwagi
Ugandan Development Initiative Coordinator
Paul's Blog

Paul has been a friend and "volunteer" for OJM for several years now and has proved himself a compassionate, visionary and skillful leader. Paul made the decision to leave his job at a weekly newspaper in Uganda to pitch in with OJM full-time as of January 1, 2010 and we are so grateful to have him overseeing our work on the ground in Uganda. Paul is excited, too, as evidenced by his email: 

"Thanks for trusting me with the coordination responsibility and the opportunity to work and minister with you brothers, towards facilitating a better life for the children and the community in Rakai and Uganda in general. Brethren, together with my family, we are praying Paul and Timothy's prayer to the people in Michigan. That let The Lord fill us and you brothers, the knowledge of his will for the community, wisdom and spiritual understanding, to fully please Our Lord. Colossians 1:3-12."

Jon Borisch

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Tim Stoner

Tim Stoner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was raised in Chile, South America where his parents served as missionaries and spent his teen years in Spain. He graduated from Cedarville University with a degree in Theology, minors in philosophy and Greek. He worked as a youth pastor in Spain then attended Grand Rapids Theological Seminary studying for a Masters of Divinity. He then studied law at Thomas E. Cooley, earning a Juris Doctor in 1987. Tim worked as bilingual staff attorney with Michigan Migrant Legal Services and then as research attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals. Since 1993 he has been in private practice specializing in estates and trusts. In 2006 Tim helped found Orphan Justice Mission.  
In 1997 Tim published The Paladins, a fantasy, spiritual/warfare allegory. The God Who Smokes, his first non-fiction book, was published by NavPress and released on February 15, 2007. He is at work on a book about Jesus which asks, What’s a nice Jewish boy like you doing on a cross like that? Tim has been married to Patty Grace Stoner for 27 years. They have five children, their youngest was adopted from Mozambique, Africa. They all live in Grand Rapids.

Bill Terpstra