ACTIVE8ME - Key Persons


Carmen Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Volunteer and Prayer Team Coordinator
Carmen's main focus is raising her three kids, Azlan, Mylie, and Tobin, and supporting the RSA ministry with prayer and helping coordinate volunteers. She teaches music at Sonshine Christian School and enjoys jogging, reading, guitar, and song writing.

Chelsey Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant
Chelsey works closely with Ruth Daniels in preparation for team travel to and from outreach events around the world. She is quickly gaining experience and understanding of the difficult task of planning and scheduling of international travel. She anticipates becoming more comfortable in her position, and being able to confidently go through the whole process with individual team members. Getting to know all of the RSA partners, the outreach team members and their extended family members, is something she is looking forward to. Chelsey is rapidly learning how all the different pieces of planning come into play for international trips, everything behind the scenes, the thing that many outside people don't know or understand, are what makes her job interesting. When she is not working, Chelsey enjoys reading, knitting, and chasing down her 5-year-old niece and helping her with her school work. She also enjoys spending quality time with my family and friends.

Craig Holt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Dan Hill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chairman of the Board / Salem, or

Doug Terpening

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
Doug served with Luis Palau Association from 1999 to 2013, where he worked as the Vice President of Festivals. His job included coordinating large events, managing staff, and raising finances for outreach festivals. Doug later transitioned to a different ministry, called Mending the Soul, where he served as Development Director until accepting this position with RSA. He brings a wealth of experience in both evangelism and fundraising. Doug and his wife, Andrea, have 4 children. We are excited to have Doug on the team.

Hannah Georgen

Job Titles:
  • Development Project Manager
Some words that might be used to describe Hannah include: Jesus follower, tea drinker, artist, anglophile, bookworm, and stargazer. She was born and raised in Spokane, WA, and spent most of her time playing piano, riding her Arabian horse, or being homeschooled with her two sisters until starting community college. After transferring to Corban University, Hannah studied English Communications, participated on Student Leadership planning events and activities, and studied abroad for a semester at Oxford University in England. Since graduating with a BS in May of 2018, Hannah was briefly a horseback riding instructor and an event coordinator at the Newell House, and now works in donor development at the RSA office. Hannah hopes to someday be a bike commuter, and have a handful of miniature horses named after hobbits. She admits to owning 17 thrifted sweaters.

Kasey Smith

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Operations Assistant
Kasey was born and raised in southern California until she accepted an offer to play volleyball for Corban University in Salem, OR. This is where she fully began to know and love Jesus Christ. Kasey graduated with a BS in Exercise Science in 2018. Since then, she has discovered a deeper calling to work at an organization that makes a direct impact for the Lord's kingdom; hence, the reason you're finding her here at RSA. Outside of work, Kasey enjoys playing sports, weight lifting, hiking, and baking. She also has a deep love for animals, dessert and her husband Jackson!

Kellan Sawyer

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Bookkeeping
Kellan is a wife, mother of three, and lover of God. She loves God because He loves her and is always there for her. Kellen enjoys spending time with with God, working on our staff, and being heavily involved in many things. She is almost always busy. In her free time, she enjoys travel and adventure-hiking slot canyons, rock hunting, and finding eccentric plants. Kellan also likes to eat dessert for breakfast or have her dessert first when she goes out to eat.

Mark Hanke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board