Members of the board of directors (photos/bio's to be added)
Melony Braxton Horton
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.
Brad Jeffries
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.!
Ezra Snell
Brayden Cook
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.
Brayden Cook
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
Brayden Cook
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.
Titus Dillard
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
ShaRhonda E. Gipson
Founded in 2000 by a visionary group of community-minded change-makers, the PEARSON Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives of children and their families through our unique Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle approach. We focus on families in the Pearson, Carver, Oak Grove, and Greenfield communities of Pearl, Mississippi—areas facing significant challenges such as pervasive drugs, teen pregnancies, school dropouts, and violence. Our mission is to tackle these issues head-on and create a brighter, more hopeful future for our community.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Brena Ward
Brena Ward joined the board of directors for the PEARSON Foundation in 2014. Her partnership with the PEARSON Foundation began as a tutor and she continued volunteering with PEARSON throughout the years.
She is a software trainer for RealPage, Inc. a real estate and property management software company based in Dallas, TX. Born in Memphis, TN, but raised in Pearl, MS, Brena earned Her BSBA in Accounting from The University of Southern Mississippi. Brena now resides in Dallas, TX, and in her free time, she enjoys quality time with family and friends and traveling and exploring the world through food.
Jarvis C. Ward
Jarvis serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the PEARSON Foundation, Inc., based in Pearl, Mississippi. He began this role in April of 2014 after having served nearly 17 years as the National Facilitator of City & Community Ministries with the Mission America Coalition/United States Lausanne Committee. Jarvis continues to cultivate strategic partnerships locally and nationally for sustained positive and wholistic culture change.
Jarvis served as: National Prayer-Care-Share Trainer/Instructor for the Church of Christ (Holiness) USA ; former pastor of Second Temple Church in Jackson, Mississippi; founder of Christ for the Cities, a cityreaching collaboration; co-founder of the National City Impact Roundtable (NCIR), a learning community of practitioners, theorists serving together to have a sustained impact in every institutional sector of life in each city in the United States. He is a sought after conference and pulpit supply speaker.
Jarvis is a graduate of: The Evangelical Institute of Greenville, SC; the University of Memphis.
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