Our Board

Leading us to fulfill God’s vision

Our Board

Leading us to fulfill God’s vision

Janejinda Pawadee | Chairwoman

Khun Jane has been working for and passionate about the human rights of women and children since she graduated from college.  She is currently a social worker at Lift International working against sex-trafficking.  She has also served as the Coordinator and Consultant at Christian Conference for Asia.  Her law degree gave her the opportunity to work with International Justice Mission (IJM) as a social worker.  In addition, she worked as the Head of Human Rights at Church of Christ Thailand and the Coordinator at Foundation for Children

Prinda Manowong | Vice Chairwoman

Ajarn Prinda Manowong has been serving as Pastor of Christian Study at the First Church of Chiang Mai since 1994 and become a full-time pastor for the church in 2000. She was an associate lecturer teaching Preaching course at McGilvary College of Divinity for two semesters.  She has been serving as a board member of Cornerstone since 2019. She has a daughter, Lalisa (24 years old) and a son Sahaswad (21 years old).

 

Noppadol (Mark) Deerangsan | Treasurer

Mark has extensive experience in the fields of education and business serving in director and managerial positions with organizations such as Samsung, Singapore Telecom, Future Electronics, and Golden Oil Cambodia.  He currently serves as the owner and director of OCC Coffee and the head of Shine Foundation which seeks to develop marginalized people groups as servant leaders to uplift their communities and to bless their neighbors and their lands.

Margaret Ukosakul | Secretary

Margaret has lived in Thailand over 25 years and currently serves as the administrator at Chiang Mai Community Church.  She is from Singapore and married to Dr. Chaiyun Ukosakul.  Together they have a passion to help couples through premarital and marital counseling.  Seeing the great need, her desire is to see more counseling resources developed for the Thai community. 

 

Grace Shim | Member

Grace Shim served as the Executive Director and Co-Director for 7 years. She is currently serving in a remote capacity as the Director of Global Advancement and therapist for Cornerstone since her move from Thailand in 2020. She is also the Asia Regional Coordinator with Serve Globally providing leadership and care to their global workers and support for their national partners throughout Asia. Grace and her husband Bob have 3 adult children and enjoy hiking, traveling, and trying new foods.

Tim Hibma |Adviser

Tim served as Executive Director and a counselor of Cornerstone for 9 years before returning to the US. He is currently the President of the Narramore Christian Foundation, and organization that seeks to meet the psychological needs of the underserved populations by providing communications, services, grants, and seminars based on the integration of psychology and Scripture.

David Allen | Adviser

David is a church planter, teacher, social worker with a focus on discipling Thais and training church leaders since 1994. He graduated with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in mathematics and engineering and went on to obtain his M.A. in Biblical text and missions. He worked as a computer engineer in Dallas, TX before moving to Thailand. He enjoys tennis, playing board games with his daughters, reading, and travelling.

Janejinda Pawadee | Chairwoman

Khun Jane has been working for and passionate about the human rights of women and children since she graduated from college.  She is currently a social worker at Lift International working against sex-trafficking.  She has also served as the Coordinator and Consultant at Christian Conference for Asia.  Her law degree gave her the opportunity to work with International Justice Mission (IJM) as a social worker.  In addition, she worked as the Head of Human Rights at Church of Christ Thailand and the Coordinator at Foundation for Children

Prinda Manowong | Vice Chairwoman

Ajarn Prinda Manowong has been serving as Pastor of Christian Study at the First Church of Chiang Mai since 1994 and become a full-time pastor for the church in 2000. She was an associate lecturer teaching Preaching course at McGilvary College of Divinity for two semesters.  She has been serving as a board member of Cornerstone since 2019. She has a daughter, Lalisa (24 years old) and a son Sahaswad (21 years old).

Noppadol (Mark) Deerangsan | Treasurer

Mark has extensive experience in the fields of education and business serving in director and managerial positions with organizations such as Samsung, Singapore Telecom, Future Electronics, and Golden Oil Cambodia.  He currently serves as the owner and director of OCC Coffee and the head of Shine Foundation which seeks to develop marginalized people groups as servant leaders to uplift their communities and to bless their neighbors and their lands.

Margaret Ukosakul | Secretary

Margaret has lived in Thailand over 20 years and currently serves as the administrator at Chiang Mai Community Church.  She is from Singapore and married to Dr. Chaiyun Ukosakul.  Together they have a passion to help couples through premarital and marital counseling.  Seeing the great need, her desire is to see more counseling resources developed for the Thai community.  She and Dr. Chaiyun are parents to beautiful twin daughters.

Grace Shim | Member

Grace Shim served as the Executive Director and Co-Director for 7 years. She is currently serving in a remote capacity as the Director of Global Advancement and therapist for Cornerstone since her move from Thailand in 2020. She is also the Asia Regional Coordinator with Serve Globally providing leadership and care to their global workers and support for their national partners throughout Asia. Grace and her husband Bob have 3 adult children and enjoy hiking, traveling, and trying new foods.

Tim Hibma |Adviser

Tim served as Executive Director and a counselor of Cornerstone for 9 years before returning to the US. He is currently the President of the Narramore Christian Foundation, and organization that seeks to meet the psychological needs of the underserved populations by providing communications, services, grants, and seminars based on the integration of psychology and Scripture.

David Allen | Adviser

David is a church planter, teacher, social worker with a focus on discipling Thais and training church leaders since 1994. He graduated with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in mathematics and engineering and went on to obtain his M.A. in Biblical text and missions. He worked as a computer engineer in Dallas, TX before moving to Thailand. He enjoys tennis, playing board games with his daughters, reading, and travelling.