Board of Directors
Barry Cartier – Barry has been a Christian 50 years after accepting Christ at age 14. He went on to marry Marcia O’Neill and has been married 45 years. He and Marcia have two sons a daughter and four grandchildren. Barry worked 32 years in Law Enforcement. After retiring he stared and operated a private investigation business. He closed his office in 2003, however still continues to do a few investigations. After closing the investigations office Barry started volunteering his time for Christian service. He started and continues to head up a program that assist elderly, widows and single moms with minor house hold needs and repairs. Barry and Marcia are very involved in their church. Marcia as a Bible study leader and prayer leader of their Adult Fellowship group Barry has held several positions in the Churches he has attended. He currently is on the Missions Team and the Short Term Missions Team at Whitier Area Community Church (WACC) in Whittier California Barry has been involved in several short term missions trips in Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and the Bahamas Barry has been involved in the Bahamas since 2003. Barry loves to minister to others and show the love of God through service and sharing His Word.
Chuy Garcia – The presence of the Lord accompanies each day of a joyous retired life with his loving and devoted wife of five years, Deanna Gardiner-Garcia. Very strong commitments to the Lord, to family and to friends are the true daily guiding rays of love in their marriage.
After a short career working in the public agency sector with the California Division of Highways (now CalTrans), Santa Clara County Public works Dept., and City Engineer for the City of Morgan Hill, he went into the private sector as owner and president of Garcia & Henry Inc., Civil Engineers for 30 years. He obtained his Bachelor of Science Civil Engineer degree from the University of Texas. He was born and raised in South Texas.
Having met Deanna through ballroom dancing, Chuy continues to enjoy learning new dance routines and techniques and performs with Deanna in ballroom dance competitions. He is active with the Twin Lakes Church in Aptos, California. He leads a small group Bible study in his home and works in annual short-term missions. Chuy stays busy at home as head culinary gourmet cook. He also enjoys planting and maintaining his fruit tree orchard. Chuy values mental and physical fitness and devotes a part of each day to various exercises, ballroom dancing, or hikes to stay fit. Foreign travel is near the top of his hobby list.
The Lord has worked through Chuy’s heart and soul to inspire a strong commitment to serving Him and to spreading His word.
Deanna Garcia – I clearly remember the night that I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. I know that in that moment my life was changed as a junior high student. God was working in my heart to give me the desire to go to a Christian college for a strong Biblical foundation for my life. I received my Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Western Baptist Bible College which is now named Corbin College. I earned my General Elementary Teaching Credential from California State University Hayward.
I taught public school for 10 years and enjoyed teaching Sunday School for many years as well. I have been able to express my love for Jesus through singing in college & church choirs. My greatest joy has been in leading a number of students, friends and family members in their decision to receive Jesus as their Lord and personal Savior.
Earning my commercial pilot’s license was a major achievement.
I am thrilled to say that my Lord brought a wonderful main into my life after we both lost our spouses to cancer. We have been married for nearly 5 years and it is such a thrill to serve our Lord together in our local area, in missions to the Bahamas and in sharing His love as we travel around the world.
Terry Williams – Terry is a committed soldier for Christ. Passionate about missions and reaching people for God using evangelism and the social gospel. He is the father of 2 children; Evan 20 and Brooke 13. Terry is self-employed with a background in heavy equipment and all phases of construction and re-modeling work. ” He met Raoul and Karen Armbrister about 7 years ago. Terry heard Raoul speaking on a local Christian radio station in Florida, contacted him and set up a meeting. Four of us went on the first trip to check things out, and WOW.. did things check out. We went back that summer with our church’s youth group. Approximately 40 youth and adults conducting Vacation Bible School and roofing on a church building donated as a community center.” Terry was selected by the church’s missions Pastor to be on his team and has also been to Jamaica and Turkey on mission trips. “Terry is excited about God’s plans for his future, which he believes will involve KARAZIM Ministries on a full time basis.”
David Witworth
David is a minister in the United Methodist Church. He is currently working on his PhD in Missiology at Cliff College and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. David’s focus is the research and development of a theology of discipleship – what it means for Christians to participate in the mission of God. David has a deep love of God and a heart for God’s people. He holds a special place in his heart for the people of the Caribbean and considers it a blessing and privilege to be working with Karazim Ministries. David believes that Karazim’s emphases upon nurturing holistic mission spirituality as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ serves as a light to the nations while inspiring hope in the hearts of God’s children for a brighter tomorrow. David and his wife Tammy are the proud parents of two girls.