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| About Us History Mountain View Lutheran Church saw a need to extend God’s love into their community. As a result, the Edgewood Community FISH Food Bank began operation on April 5, 2003. By 2006, the food bank had outgrown its facility. Talks began of building a new facility that would also serve as a Community Center. Thanks to the community of faith at Mountain View Lutheran Church and charitable foundations, over $900,000 was raised towards the building of the Mountain View Community Center (MVCC) which opened its door on November 1, 2008. Read the 2009 Annual Report (pdf, 2.6Mb). 
Charmaine Jovanovich-Miller, Executive Director Executive Director, Charmaine Jovanovich-Miller, is a seasoned non-profit professional. Her 20+ years of experience includes training, consulting, marketing, fundraising, management and development. She attended the Leadership Advancement Program of Concordia University, is a certified Human Resource Generalist, Family Life Educator, published author, and has owned/operated her own successful training consulting business. Charmaine’s business and entrepreneurial skills have produced positive results and many new partnerships for our organization almost immediately upon joining our team. 
Donald Mott, MD, Board Member Don is a retired orthopedic surgeon and served as Chief Medical Officer for Good Samaritan Hospital from 2002-2008. Other accomplishments include serving as Past President of the Hospital Board & Foundation Board of Trustees, and as Past President of Puyallup YMCA and the Puyallup Rotary Club. Don has been an active member of Mountain View Lutheran Church since 1977. Don also served as chairman of the “Treasured Hearts” campaign which raised $1 million to build Mountain View Community Center. 
Ed Knutson, Board Member As a lifelong resident of Pierce County, Ed has always enjoyed helping others. From his Boy Scout days, his involvement in his church, and serving the community of Edgewood as Chief of Police, he gets more pleasure from giving than receiving. Ed is honored to be a part of the Mountain View Community Center and he looks forward to the future of the center and the people it will help. 
Barney Wagner, Board Member
Nancy Strobel, Board Member
Nancy has been an educator in the Puyallup School District for 19 years, serving as a teacher, a principal, and a special education administrator during this time. She has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in special education. As part of her post-graduate work, she also obtained principal certification. She currently serves as principal of Mt. View Elementary School. Nancy is passionate about helping families and helping children, and sees her work with Mountain View Community Center as a natural way to expand her advocacy for children. 
Jon Edmonds, Board Member
Pastor Ben Quanbeck, ex oficio Liaison Ben hails from Shepherd, Montana (northeast of Billings) where he grew up on a farm and ranch. Ben serves as associate pastor of Mountain View Lutheran Church. Ben was called to Mountain View Lutheran in 2008 with his wife (and fellow pastor) Jennifer. Ben’s education includes one year studying aviation at the University of North Dakota, four years at North Dakota State University where he received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering, and four years in graduate school at Luther Seminary where he received a Master of Divinity degree. Ben has a passion for justice in the world and believes that one of the chief callings of the Christian in our world today is to advocate and provide for those on the margins of society. Ben serves on the Mountain View Community Center Board as a liaison between the church and the community center. 
Kate Wright, Board Member  Jon Thieman, Board Member 
Ken Edmonds, Board Member 
Karen Miceli, Board Member Karen Miceli has been a resident of Pierce County since 1980. She attended the University of Puget Sound graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dec of 1983. From School, she went into the workforce, married her husband, Tom Miceli in 1988, and has 2 children Anthony, 21, who is in his 3rd year at CWU and Brie, 16, who is a sophomore at Puyallup HS. Karen currently is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Bain in Puyallup (from 2005), and prior to that, has been a part of Good Samaritan Hospital (approx 8 years) working both in the Volunteer Dept and in the Foundation. With a background in Customer Service, Business – Sales and Marketing and in HR-Employment, Karen can certainly understand the business of a philanthropic organization. She feels that it is important that when one is so blessed, with a career, roof over her head, and food on the table, that one should give of her time and money to the community. Karen has volunteered in the past with the Puyallup School District, Good Samaritan Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, and currently volunteers for the Pierce County Coalition for Developmental Disabilities. Karen can’t think of a better organization than MVCC where she can begin another Volunteer adventure. 
Dave Lawson, Board Member Dave is a long=time resident of the Pacific Northwest, and a Pacific Lutheran University alumni. He has 29+ years of experience as a Human Resources leader in organizations with both domestic and international markets. He currently oversees the Human Resources, Education Services, Worker's compensation and Security Services departments at Franciscan Health System (FHS) and has delivered the infrastructure that enable the organization to effectively recruit, select, develop and retain the best healthcare professionals possible for Franciscan Health System, that has been awarded with the designation of Top 100 Best Places to Work in the Puget Sound region. | |
| Professional photos courtesy of Darel Roa Photography. | | This page was last modified on Monday, June 06, 2011 12:11:44 PM | |
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