Members

Lingo Green, Chairman

Lingo Green is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Mr. Green has worked in the Information Technology field for 20 years.

He has been an active member of Cross Culture Church in Lithonia, Georgia for ten years. Currently, Mr. Green serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Cross Culture Community Development Corporation (CCCDC).

He resides in Rex, Georgia with his wife.

Alan Turner, Treasurer

Allen Turner is a Print Solutions Account Specialist with Staples, Inc. He works with corporate accounts, implementing and maintaining national print programs. He also functions in a consultative role to assist corporations achieve their strategic goals.

Allen has also been involved in his church (Cross Culture Church) and community. At Cross Culture Church, he serves as a Deacon and has been effective in the roles listed below:

• Former President, Boy Scouts Troop
• Former Overseer, My Brother’s Keeper (mentoring)

He served a local community, along with some men of this church, by regularly bringing hope to children and food to the elderly.

Philip Fain, Secretary

Professional Experience

General Mills Inc. Covington, Georgia
Technical Operations Coordinator/Cheerios system Platform Leader

• Responsible for meeting annual production, safety, usage, quality, productivity and organizational goals for Cheerios cereal manufacturing department and plant objectives.

Ministry Involvement

Licensed Minister serving at Cross Culture Church

• Department head Men’s Ministry – Our objective is to challenge, equip, and encourage men. As their lives are transformed, they would reach out to other men.

Family life

Mr. Fain lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia with his wife Cynthia. They have two children.

Sherry Jackson, Chief Executive Officer

Sherry Peel Jackson has over 36 years of experience in public, private and governmental accounting, and financial education.  Ms. Jackson conducts basic and advanced financial education seminars and classes across the United States.

She has instructed financial survival classes for various organizations, including private companies, youth groups and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.  For governmental clients, Ms. Jackson performed full-scale audits and financial training seminars.  Ms. Jackson also provides consultation to individuals, agencies and churches.

Ms. Jackson received her Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license in 1987, and her Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation in 2001.  However, she relinquished her licenses in 2007 in order to teach the truth about our financial world without restraint.

Professional Experience

• S. P. Jackson Consulting (2011 – present)
• Founder, Titus 2 International Women’s Ministry (2012)
• Founder, Wake The People International Ministry (2003 – present)
• President, Sherry Peel Jackson, CPA, CFE  (1995 – 2007)
• Revenue Agent, Internal Revenue Service  (1988 – 1995)
• Accountant, Days Inn Management Company (1987)
• Accountant, Simmons, Richey & Company, CPA’s  (1985 – 1987)
• Accountant, Saunders & White, CPA’s  (1984)

Education

• Bachelors in Business Administration, The University of Georgia,  J.M. Tull School of Accounting, Terry School of Business  (1984)
• Masters in Christian Studies, Luther Rice Seminary and University, Lithonia, Georgia,  (May, 2014)

Skills

• Asset Protection and International Business Strategies
• Financial Training and Education Presentations
• Accounting, Bookkeeping, Auditing
• Business Consulting, Business Start-up, Business Management
• Business and Individual Tax Strategies
  

Elder Jerry Butler, Overseeing Elder and Farming Team Member

Elder Jerry Butler, Sr. worked in the freight and trucking business for over 35 years and has been retired for 10 years. Before moving to Georgia, Elder Butler was an active member of Second Baptist Church in Lackawanna, New York where he was ordained as a deacon in February 1980 and served as Superintendent of Sunday School.

After moving to Georgia, he has been an active member of Cross Culture Church in Lithonia, Georgia for 35 years. Elder Butler was again ordained as a deacon in March 1990; he has served as a licensed minister, an ordained minister, and board member. He was ordained as elder in November 2011; he also serves as an interaction leader and an instructor. Furthermore, Elder Butler evangelizes others to Christ through community outreach.

He has traveled to the Philippines, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Middleburgh, South Africa with the mission team. In addition, Elder Butler has ministered to individuals in prison as a member of the prison ministry team. He is the overseeing elder for the Cross Culture Community Development Corporation (CCCDC). Elder Butler resides in Decatur, Georgia with his wife. He has three grown children.

Willie Torrey, Nutrition and Farming Team Member

Willie Torrey’s professional aspirations are to cultivate relationships with the various agencies, organizations and enterprises essential for providing a better quality of life for under-served populations in rural and urban communities where poverty and neglect are barriers to optimal fulfillment of life, both naturally and spiritually.

To encourage collaboration on special projects that would allow stakeholders to maximize fulfillment of organizational goals utilizing mutually established resource pools.

Related Experiences

Worked as Project Manager of Georgia’s Statewide EBT Farmers’ Market Project USDA from October 2009 to July 2012. (This project was funded by USDA and coordinated through the 11 Resource Conservation and Development Councils of Georgia. The project’s goal is to provide low income citizens access to locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables).

Earlier activities included patient advocacy in local health and wellness practice of Dr. Christopher Greene, D.C., Coordinated a Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA) project to fill or create jobs for adults with developmental disabilities.

Worked as Field Accountant for livestock cooperative, Southeast Alabama Self-Help Association.

Background includes five years of experience in working for non-profit agencies serving targeted populations. Provided marketing and bookkeeping assistance for under-served farmers in rural Alabama.

Worked as farmers’ business agent during monthly livestock auction. Secondly, developed a test project to grow small plot specialty crops to create jobs for difficult to employ adults with mental disabilities. This effort later led to a greenhouse operation on the same site that grows and markets hanging plants.

Education

• Southern University, Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Institute Class of 2013
• Tuskegee University and University of Alabama. Bachelor of Applied Science in Business Management. Minor studies in Economic Theory and Agricultural Economics