Meet the Mission Volunteers Staff
Our staff is made up of people with an incredible desire to help support Mission Volunteers.Clinton Rabb, Assistant General Secretary
Mission Volunteers Program Area
The Rev. Clinton Rabb, a member of the Southwest Texas Conference, was named as the head of the Mission Volunteers unit in July 2006.
Rev. Rabb has been with Global Ministries since 1995, most recently as an executive for special initiatives in the Evangelization and Church Growth unit, working particularly with new mission initiatives in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Rabb crafted the "In Mission Together Church to Church Partnership Program," which links congregations, annual conferences, volunteer efforts, and mission personnel. He has also worked in the US with ministries involving African-American, Mexican-American, and Vietnamese-American communities.
During a span of almost 20 years as a pastor and chaplain in Texas, Rabb was engaged in a range of Volunteers in Mission teams both domestically and internationally. His work with new mission initiatives has also put him in frequent contact with the mission volunteers program. He holds the bachelor of arts degree from Austin (Texas) College, the master of divinity degree from the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and the master of arts in counseling from Trinity University. He is married to the Rev. Suzanne Field Rabb, a member of the Southwest Texas Conference and currently associate pastor at University United Methodist Church in Austin. They have eight children and two grandchildren.
E-mail: crabb@gbgm-umc.org
Michael DeBorja, Manager
Volunteer Network Services
Michael DeBorja has done yeoman work in the United Methodist Church for more than 20 years. He currently has website, financial, insurance, and communications responsibilities in the Mission Volunteers Office. Michael first volunteered as a student to assist urban poor who had been relocated from Manila, and has been involved in working for social justice in the Philippines. Married, with one son, Michael has done dissertation research on American political thought, taught American and Asian history in a local college, speaks some Chinese and Spanish, and enjoys hiking and visiting architectural landmarks.
E-mail: mdeborja@gbgm-umc.org
Beth Buchanan
Program Coordinator
Beth recently received a B.A in International Studies, with an emphasis in Arts and Culture, from Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. She worked abroad in France at the Centre de Vacances Landersen and has served on multiple mission trips to Juarez, Mexico and the Appalachians. In addition, she was the Intern of Discipleship and Pastoral Care at First United Methodist Church of Rockwall, TX, her home town.
E-mail: bbuchanan@gbgm-umc.org
Nancy Eubanks, Consultant
Individual Volunteer Program
Nancy Eubanks is a life-long Methodist and member of the Memphis Annual Conference. Her mission experiences include serving as Conference UMVIM Coordinator for eight years, being an Individual Volunteer in Estonia, presently serving as Conference Mission Secretary, being a member of the General Board of Global Ministries Board of Directors, and working with In Mission Together (the church partner to partner program of GBGM) in Poland, Macedonia and Serbia. Nancy is a retired accountant and is excited about this new arena in which to be involved – that of helping called people find placement for short term mission experiences.
E-mail: Indvols@gbgm-umc.org
Barbara Stone, Consultant
Mission Volunteers - UMCOR
Barbara Stone’s responsibilities include the recruitment, training and placement of individual volunteers in UMCOR-related programs and in UMCOR field offices overseas.
Barbara previously served as the director of United Methodist Volunteers in Mission of the South Central Jurisdiction and as UMVIM Coordinator for the Missouri Conference. She worked with conference coordinators to network the UMVIM ministries of the jurisdiction, including collaboration for volunteer management in disaster recovery. Other experiences include leading missions to Methodist-related projects in Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Mozambique and Serbia, as well as participation in the writing of the UMVIM Training Manual for Mission Volunteers, and in the training of young adult volunteers in the Global Justice Volunteers program of Global Ministries.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Missouri and practiced as a physical therapist for 20 years. She is married to the Rev. Dale Stone and they have four adult children ages 20-25.
E-mail: Indvols@gbgm-umc.org
Jeanie Blankenbaker, Consultant
Ubuntu eXplorers
Jeanie Blankenbaker helps supervise the Ubuntu eXplorers program. She also served as Consultant for the Individual Volunteers program upon her retirement as Assistant General Secretary for Mission Volunteers in 2006. As AGS she supervised the writing and subsequent revision of the UMVIM Training Manual for Mission Volunteers. Previously, she was Executive Secretary for Training and Leadership Development in Mission Volunteers and Training Coordinator for the Southeastern Jurisdiction United Methodist Volunteers In Mission program.
Jeanie has over 30 years of experience as a volunteer and team leader of mission teams in the SEJ, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, including Cuba. She has worked as well with the Zimbabwe, Liberia and Mozambique Central Conferences, Cambodian Christian Methodist Association, and the Methodist Churches in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and South Africa on their VIM programs, and conducted numerous training workshops for team leaders and members throughout the United Methodist Church.
Jeanie has a wonderful daughter who lives in Georgia, loves the organization and connectionalism of the UMC, and loves missions, helping others, and serving God where needed, at home or abroad.
E-mail: jbivhh@aol.com
Dr. Roger Boe, Medical Consultant
Health Care Volunteers (HCV)
Roger recently retired from 34 years of private pediatric practice in Pocatello, Idaho. He previously served as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine; past President, Idaho Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics; and Chair, Regional Task Force on Children with Disabilities.
Roger Boe has also served as a church school teacher, lay leader, and member of the conference Board of Global Ministries, and has mission experience in Mexico, Bolivia, and Zaire. He and his wife, Donna Hargrave Boe, have been married for 45 years and have two grown children.
E-mail: boeroger@cableone.net
Kim Lehmann, Consultant
Primetimers Program
Kim Lehmann recently worked as Program Coordinator in Mission Volunteers, with a primary focus on the implementation of the Global Justice Volunteers and the Primetimers programs. She is currently taking graduate studies in Toronto. Kim has a B.S. degree from Texas Christian University in Political Science and Economics. Before coming to Mission Volunteers, she worked with War on Want: Campaign Against Poverty, the Nebraska Peace with Justice Office, and the United Methodist Seminar Program on National and International Affairs. Kim has been involved in mission through a variety of channels, including through her home church, Rockbrook United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska, as well as through GBGM, having served as a Global Justice Volunteer in the Philippines.
E-mail: Primetimers@gbgm-umc.org