Board of Directors
Eric Lerew, Chairman
While attending Ferris State University in Michigan, Eric had a life transforming encounter with Jesus. After starting campus ministries at Central Michigan Universityand Alma College he became the District Director of Chi Alpha Campus Ministries for Illinois. Currently he is the Lead Pastor of Fusion Church in LakeZurich, which he started with some friends by the grace of God and the support of Northwest Family Church. His passion is multiplying missional Christians and communities. He enjoys playing golf and guitar and listening to country music. Eric and his two children, Lauren & Evan, live in Wauconda.
Tom Burns, Vice Chairman
After a 30 year career in the computer and the telecommunications industries, including serving as Vice President with Ameritech and two internet “dot com” startups, Tom began a “second half” of Kingdom service. In January 2004, Tom left the corporate world and entered Trinity Evangelical Divinity School , receiving the Master of Divinity degree in 2006. Tom is a Leadership Coach, working with Christian business executives and church leaders. In addition, Tom is a Missional Church Planter, and also serves as Chaplain at O’Hare Airport Chapel. Tom and his wife Joan live in Lake Barrington and have two daughters – Ashley, a sophomore at Hope College and Chloe, a junior at Barrington High School.
Kim Dougherty, Secretary
A Christian for nearly 30 years, Kim has served throughout that time in diverse ministries in the Church. From youth to the elderly, preaching and leading to cleaning toilets, she has found joy in each opportunity. With a BA in Pastoral Studies from Eugene Bible College (Eugene, OR) and an MA in Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL), Kim has sought to integrate the word of God with real world living. Her study of Matthew 25 and its implications for stewardship, accountability and compassion had direct impact on her work in the Business Office of Trinity International University. In different capacities Kim served Trinity and its students from February 1996 until March 2009, becoming well known with staff as a constant source of chocolate and information. Kim's most recent work includes coordinating the ShareFest Lake County Food Drive, team-teaching at Inside/Out Children's Ministry at Iglesia Emanuel, Waukegan and scrambling eggs at a PADS shelter. Having experienced the transformational power of Christ in her own life, she seeks to provide that same opportunity to those in need. Kim is a member at Village Church of Gurnee.
Kathy Houde, Treasurer
Kathy Houde is passionate about helping business owners impact society through strong and thriving businesses. Having held leadership roles in business for over 30 years, she served as President and CEO of Calumet Photographic for 15 of those years where she was able to provide substantial resources into local communities to encourage youth to pursue their education and creativity. In 2001, she started a consulting practice dedicated to helping business owners grow and prosper in their businesses through an expanded vision of success--impacting those in need through the blessings of their business.
Kathy currently serves on the Board of the Village Church of Barrington and leads the church's Lifelong Learning & Equipping Center. She is excited to see God at work through the building of Love INC in the Lake County.
Scott Dever
Scott is the father of 3 boys and the husband of 1 woman. The familymoved to the Lake Zurich area in 2002. Since then, Scott has held leadership positions at Sears, Hewitt and Motorola. Both Scott and Teresa have served as worship leaders and have lead various small groups and bible studies in the neighborhood and the workplace. The Devers first became aquainted with Love INC when their small group adopted a family for Christmas in 2004. Scott also serves on the board and helped launch Love, Light and Melody, a non-profit organization that works to meet the physical and spiritual needs of a trash dump community in Nicaragua.
Jane Fidler
Jane Anne Ward Fidler was born the 4th child and only girl in Cleveland, Ohio, December 1, 1956. When she was 4 years old, she and her family moved to Florham Park, NJ. She grew up in the volunteering and later working for the local YMCA. Thinking that she wanted to pursue a career in YMCA work, she came to Downers Grove,IL to attend George Williams College (George Williamswas the founder of the YMCA). While attending college, she met the love of her life, Tom Fidler and married him in 1977 (at the age of 20! Yes they are still married.). At George Williams College, Jane swam (and dived 1 year) on the college team earning national honors and All American status. In 1978 Jane graduated with a BS degree in Physical Education and minor in Natural Science. After working two years at Buehler YMCA in Palatine as full-time Aquatic director, she decided that teaching was more her style and passion. So, for the next two years, she taught as a TA at Conant High School in Special Education with Behavior Disorder teenagers and coaching swimming and diving. When a position opened in Physical Education, she switched departments. In 1985, she and her husband were blessed with a baby girl, Ashley who changed her life and career path dramatically. Jane quit her teaching job, became a “stay at home mom” and began to go to school in the evenings pursuing Early Childhood Education. Through this all, she continued to coach swimming and diving for District #211. When Ashley turned 4 years old, Jane took a 2nd Grade teaching position at Seth Paine Schoolin Lake Zurich. This lasted one year due to entrepreneurial thoughts and God led prompts. In November or 1990, she opened up a part-day Christian preschool in Lake Zurich with 11 children called Educational Training Center (ETC PreSchool). By the end of the year, there were 25 students. Year two grew to 75 children and year three they had expanded to serve 140 children! In 1996, Jane opened up ETC-Wauconda, renovating a 65 year old barn (with her husband and daughter) into a home on the second floor and a daycare center on the first floor. To date, she has been blessed to own and operate the two centers with 18 staff members and a total of 170 children. Her hobbies include making stained glass, windsurfing and sailing, snowboarding, and keeping fit. During the summer she runs “soul” sailing adventures in the British Virgin Islands forwomen.
Lynn O'Brien
Lynn O'Brien is the President/COO and co-owner of Women's Physical Therapy Institute. WPTI opened in Lake Zurichin 2000 and in 2008 a Crystal Lake clinic was opened. Additionally, Lynn owns LOB & Associates, a healthcare consulting firm. She has almost 30 years experience in healthcare business operations. She began her corporate career with Baxter International where she worked for nearly 15 years.
Lynn has served on the Executive Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce and currently chairs the Governmental Affairs Committee. In 2008 she was a mentor forthe national YEA! (Young Entrepreneurs Academy) Program with School District 95 and in 2009 was asked to be the lead instructor. She co-founded one of the largest all women networking groups, WIN, Women in Networking. She leads a group called Lunch with the King where Christian business professionals meet weekly to pray. She is married with 2 active teenage boys, team manager for Ela travel soccer and an active member of her church, Alpine Chapel.
Joyce Rowland
After nearly 30 years of leadership in local mission work, weekly Bible studies and numerous search committees, Joyce decided to retire with her husband and enjoy being a member of an evangelical congregation. Who would have guessed it would lead to the launch of a new ministry involving so many churches and agencies – many of which she had already built relationships with in her previous work. It has long been a dream to serve together with friends in neighboring congregations. Joyce and her husband Paul have two grown sons Andy and Doug and a daughter Emily, a freshman, at Hope College.
Paul Rowland
After nearly 30 years in high technology medical sales, including serving as Vice President of Sales North America for Varian Medical Systems and the start up of Varian Surgical Sciences, Paul retired to enjoy time with his immediate family and aging father. He was quickly recruited by his wife, Joyce, into serving with the Village Church of Barrington on their local impact team. Together their ministry has uncovered a number of unmet needs and opportunities for service in southwest Lake County. The establishment of a local Love INC affiliate is a major milestone in meeting those needs and providing an opportunity for discipleship through service. Paul and his wife Joyce live in Deer Park and have two grown sons Andy and Doug and a daughter Emily, a freshman, at Hope College.
Kim Wasson
Kim wasborn and raised in the small southern Indiana town of Columbus. She attended Purdue Univeristy and graduated with a BS in Pharmacy in 1981. She met her husband, Greg, while attending Purdue Pharmacy School. They got married right after graduation and headed to Houston where both were employed by Walgreens. Over the next 17 years she held a variety of jobs with Walgreens in various states including: staff pharmacist, pharmacy manager, assistant manager, store manager, and worked to control district third party reconciliation. In 1999 Kim and her family moved to Illinois and she decided to stay home with her 2 daughters. She returned to school in 2003 to earn her PharmD degree from Midwestern University and upon finishing her clinical rotations in 2006, she joined Advocate Health at Good Shepherd Hospital where she currently works as a pharmacist in an outpatient Anticoagulation clinic.
Kim and her family has attended Long Grove Community Church for about 10 years. She spent many years volunteering with the Youth Ministries Program while her 2 daughters were active in Youth Group. Currently she serves as the Compassion/Outreach Ministry Leader at Long Grove Church. When she is not working or volunteering she loves to spend her time riding horses. In the summer she loves to water ski on the lake where she grew up in Columbus. Most of Kim’s extended family on both sides still live in Indiana so the family is able to spend many holidays and family reunion times together. This has been a special benefit to living in the Chicago area.
