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How can you add new staff members without swelling your payroll?
By making frequent use of NewSource!
Our staff is dedicated to working with you to strengthen your community of faith. When you visit, call, or e-mail, our goal is to help you to discover what will be best for the ministry of your congregation - not just a one-size-fits-all canned solution.
Working together with you.
Our professional ministry consultants help congregations shape powerful programs and ministries that reflect their own unique spirit and prepare leadership to meet future challenges in creative and effective ways.
Meet our two newest consultants
 Janice Baldwin comes to New Source with over thirty years of professional experience in Christian formation and education, most of it in local congregations. However, she has also worked as Christian education resource person for a cluster of ten congregations. She has served as a volunteer in the Episcopal church on diocesan commissions for Christian formation and youth ministry and on regional and national networks for Christian formation. At one point when Janice was offered a judicatory-level position in Christian formation she declined saying, “Without contact with the children, I would simply shrivel up.”
In addition to this devotion to the formation of children Janice has many other ministerial interests. Among them are: intergenerational and seasonal events; formation and education in the small church setting; supporting faith formation by strong ties of home and Christian education; and visioning Christian formation and education through the life journey. “I am passionate about and committed to faith formation as a lifelong process. I look forward to helping others provide opportunities for persons of all ages to grow, engage with challenging issues, and deepen their faith in a church community, “ she says.
Janice holds a BA in Christian Education (Florida Southern College) and an MDiv (Candler School of Theology, Emory University). She also has an MA in Community Leadership with emphasis in adult Christian community development (Regis University, Denver). Her thesis was entitled Where Two or Three are Gathered Together: Christian Formation in the Small Church. Janice is especially interested in Celtic Christianity and spirituality and is doing long-distance work through the University of Wales, Lampeter.
She and her husband Dennis have two grown children and a teenage son at home. Janice is the mother of Father Robb Baldwin, rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Troy, and former NewSource board member. She lives in Sidney.
 Alecia is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She has served in local church ministries for ten years. Her particular area of interest is interim ministry; serving congregations that are in transition. She received her training and certification as an Intentional Interim Minister from IMN—the Interim Ministry Network.
Her ministry passions include: planning meaningful and lively worship experiences, Helping congregations with church development and leadership issues, and teaching adult Christian formation programs.
Ordained ministry is a second career choice for Alecia. In her first career, she spent 25 years in broadcasting as an audio engineer, producing both Christian and commercial programming in the Cleveland-Akron area.
Alecia is a “Renaissance woman,” and she considers herself a “Jill-of-all-Trades”. Her various interests and skills led her to serve at Grailville Retreat Center near Cincinnati, where she helped design and host spiritual retreats and workshops. She also worked in public relations at there creating marketing and publicity materials for the center.
Meet the NewSource Staff
Karen Ander Francis, Executive Director
Betty Williams, Consultant
Larry Ramey, Adjunct Consultant
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Karen Ander Francis, Executive Director
Planning for the life and legacy of any institution is really about these two questions: Who is God calling us to be? What does God want us to do?
These questions are at the heart of the spiritual life - the process to answer them brings us into closer alignment with God's will for our lives.
The experiences Karen Francis has had as a leader in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations for the past 25 years and as a spiritual director for over 15 years provide the bsis for the processes she has designed to help congregations and faith based ministries build a strategic plan that is informed by the Spirit. Using scripture, telling and listening to the stories of the people involved in the planning leads to discoveries about the organizations that provide direction for its future.
 Karen's background in public relations and marketing communications blends with her education in spiritual formation to create a unique approach to faith-based strategic planning. Her emphasis is on practical solutions. Participants in strategic planning retreats go away with concrete ideas for implementation and an action plan.
As executive director of NewSource, Karen led the board, staff, and community stakeholders in a re-branding process that included creating an expanded vision and mission along with explicit, well-defined core values (Click here to read more about our Vision, Mission and Core Values).
Among the congregations and other organizations she has guided are: St. George's Episcopal Church, Washington Twp., Christ Episcopal Church; Dayton, Christ Episcopal Church, Xenia; Sinclair Community College Staff Senate; St. Ann's Episcopal Church, West Chester; and Christ the King ELCA, Centerville.
She holds a master's degree in spiritual psychology and certificates in Christian Spirituality Studies and Spiritual Formation. She is a published author and columnist. Top of Page
 Betty Williams, Consultant
Diversity and Tolerance
Small Group Leadership Training
Grief Pastoral Care
Betty Williams is now in her 4th year with NewSource. She is a retired elementary school teacher and principal. Her love of teaching children extended to Sunday School as Christian Education Director at Tabernacle Baptist Church for more than 15 years. In that position Betty's duries included training teachers and laity, teaching Sunday School, and leading Bible workshops. She designed and implemented a Bible study program for four year-olds. Betty also helped in planning quarterly congregation-wide classes.
For NewSource Betty has been an indefatigable advocate in the African American community and is our conscience on diversity and tolerance issues. She often takes NewSource "on the road" to neighborhood and denominational meetings.
As a result of her recent widowhood Betty started a scripture-based Spouse Grief Group at the United Way office in Dayton. Currently she is enrolled at United Theological Seminary to expand her knowledge in the area of grief and pastoral care. She is a member of the United Way Dayton Board of Directors.
Betty holds a Masters of Education and a Masters of Divinity.
Leadership Development Consulting
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Grace UMC, DAyton, teacher training
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Dixon UMC, small group facilitator training Top of Page
Larry Ramey, Adjunct Consultant
"Jesus fills us up to be poured out, that the transforming love of God may reconcile each one to God and each other. We are called by God to be sent out to thehighways and hedges, that all those who have been overlooked and overburdened might be invited to share in the feast of God's love."
 Larry Ramey has worked and taught in media and the church of 30 years. He has a passion and experience for working with churches on invitational ministry, evangelism and congregational development. After a career as a newspaper journalist, Larry earned a Master of Arts in Religious Communications degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Larry taught media ministry courses at United Theological Seminary while acting as a media consultant and producer of video and print resources for local churches denominational groups. He has experience in education, mission, evangelism, worship, and administrative ministries in the local church. He works as a communications specialilst for local mission work, in addition to serving as a NewSource church consultant since 2003.
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