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. Neddie Winters - Executive Director Neddie serves as Executive Director of Mission Mississippi. He has over thirty years of experience encompassing organizational planning and development, management/administration, executive leadership, mortgage financing, loan making and servicing, agricultural and non-agricultural lending, and training and promotional activities. He has a proven ability to develop, interpret, absorb, effectively apply, and provide guidance in the application of regulations, objectives and policies. He serves on many different boards and community organizations. He holds a master’s degree in Public Financial Management from The American University, Washington D.C. He has been married to Tommie S. Jones Winters for thirty-six years; they have five children and eleven grandchildren.
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. . Virginia Chase - Executive Assistant . Virginia was born and raised in Jackson, MS and is a graduate of Lanier High School. She has worked in several areas of public service including the Sheriff’s Department in Talladega, AL; in retail as a sales clerk/manager; in customer service at the 79th and Cottage Grove, Currency Exchange, Chicago, IL and in the Jackson Public School system as a teaching assistant. She has been working for Mission Mississippi for 9 years, and during this time she has worked as the Administrative Assistant, the Events/Activities Coordinator and now as Executive Assistant. Virginia is married to Greggory, Sr., and they have two children, Brittney and Greggory, Jr. . . . .
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. . . Paige Haven - Volunteer Events Coordinator . Paige is originally from Alexandria, LA. She graduated from Belhaven College, Jackson, MS in 2005. Before coming to Mission Mississippi, she worked as an Admission Counselor at Belhaven College. She also owns Compliments of You, LLC an event coordinating service. Paige and her husband Rick have been married for two years and currently reside in Brandon, MS. She is now the events and volunteer coordinator at Mission Mississippi.
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Dr. Dolphus Weary - President Dolphus grew up in rural Mississippi, then moved to California, where in 1969 he became one of the first black graduates of Los Angeles Baptist College with a B.S. degree in Biology. After receiving his Masters of Religious Education from Los Angeles Baptist Seminary, Dolphus returned to Mississippi in 1971 to assume leadership of Mendenhall Ministries; his book, I Ain’t Comin’ Back, was published in 1990. Since 1998, Dolphus has spread the message of reconciliation by serving with Mission Mississippi, first as Executive Director and currently as President. Dolphus is a nationally featured speaker and writer and serves as a member of numerous boards, including the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Wheaton College Board of Visitors, World Vision, and Belhaven College. Dolphus and his wife, Rosie, are the parents of three children: Danita, who lives in Natchez, MS; Ryan, currently living at home; and their eldest son, Reggie, for whom they recently observed his three-year homegoing anniversary.
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Otilia Sebuktekin - Operations Manager
. Otilia Is originally from Honduras. She has lived in USA for about 22 years and out those 22 years, 20 of them she has lived in Mississippi. She has been actively involved in the Hispanic community and the Catholic community. She is one of the founding members of the Mississippi Hispanic Association, in which she sat on the board table for several years, previously a member of the Board of Directors of St. Therese Catholic School and now serves as a board member for CORE, Inc. She earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Honduras, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Management from LSU, Baton Rouge, LA. She worked for Eastover Bank as a Payoff Officer, Allstate Insurance as the Call Center Associate Manager, SunTech, Inc. the Customer Service Manager and now as the Operations Manager for Mission Mississippi. She has been married to Isik Sebuktekin for twenty years and they have a daughter named Milena. They reside in the City of Clinton.
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Richard Riley - Program Coordinator . Richard hails from Columbus, MS and was educated in his early years there. He later attended Holmes Jr. College in Goodman, MS and received an associate’s degree in music and architecture prior to completing his formal education in 1980 at Mississippi State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Data Processing. In his final year at MSU, the course of Richard’s life changed when he made a commitment to serve the Lord as a full time minister and missionary. Over the last 25 years, in this capacity, Richard has been instrumental in helping plant numerous churches on many university campuses in the US, Philippines, S. Korea, South Africa, and Namibia serving in the areas of associate pastor, senior pastor, praise and worship leader, and church administration. Richard, his wife Ruth, and their children, Rebecca and Ryan have just recently returned from the mission field in South Africa and Namibia and have now made their home in the Jackson area attending Cornerstone Church in Pearl, MS.
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