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The IICM Board of Directors is the ultimate corporate authority in the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry, Inc., overseeing the activities of the Executive Director and staff. The Board of Directors has the responsibility to set policies and procedures in support of the Executive Director and staff.

The Institute manages the budget, which pays for computer equipment, computer programming and hosting. Other costs include the human resources necessary to the running of the IICM projects, though some people are volunteers.

Biographies

Eduardo Docampo, DMin

Dr. Ed Docampo

Dr. Ed Docampo serves at IICM as Associate Director for Missional Leadership. In this capacity he equips the Missional Trainers and Missional Coaches who work with Pastors and lay people in the development of local missionary teams who penetrate specific cultural groups in their communities. Before joining IICM, Dr. Docampo served with the North American Mission Board in mission strategy development, as the Executive Director of the Greater Orlando (FL) Baptist Association, as Associate Director of the Language Church Starting Department of the Home Mission Board, as the Director of Language Missions and Men's Ministry for the Baptist Convention of New England, and as a pastor in New Orleans and Fort Worth. He has also served the United States Army as a Chaplain serving two tours of duty in Afghanistan. Dr. Docampo has a BS in Management from the University of New Orleans, an MDiv and a MRE from Southwestern Seminary, and a DMin in Cross Cultural Ethnic Missions from Golden Gate Seminary.

Sam K. Formby, PhD

Sam Formby

Sam Formby is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Information Systems Department of the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC beginning in July 2011. He will be primarily responsible for teaching Supply Chain Management topics. Previously he worked for twenty-eight years in the nuclear industry with DuPont and then Westinghouse, before taking an early retirement in 2005. Sam has a masters degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of South Carolina. His primary areas of study include the strategic design, implementation and control of operations processes to maximize value creation within a targeted market while appropriately considering business risks. Topical areas of special emphasis include supply chain management, project management, and risk management. Sam is a deacon at First Baptist Church, North Augusta, SC and has taught an Adult Sunday School class that studies through the Bible in a year for more than twelve years.

Robert M. Oswald, II, CPA

Robert Oswald has served as a Certified Public Accountant since 1985. Previously he was the Vice President of Palmetto Security Services and served on the City Council of North Augusta. He is active in serving on the boards of several non-profit organizations including serving as: treasurer of Laces for Love and for the Paul Knox Educational Foundation and chairman of the finance committee of First Baptist Church of North Augusta. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, and served as an advisor to the Ronald McDonald House in Augusta, GA. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Augusta Technical College. He graduated from Augusta State University with a B.A. in accounting and has completed additional studies at Louisiana State University and MBA courses at Augusta State University and the University of South Carolina.

Margaret Slusher

Margaret Slusher is a professional trainer, coach and owner of LEADPlus where she conducts conferences on coaching, conflict management, communication and other leadership issues. Previously she served as the Director of Church Planting for Leadership Network, in the Associational Strategy Group at the North American Mission Board, and at Noonday Baptist Association, Marietta, GA. She has a Master of Science degree in Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University.

Curt Watke, PhD

Dr. Curt Watke

Dr. Curt Watke founded the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry in 2003 and serves IICM as the Executive Director. Dr. Watke is a North American missiologist with a passion for reaching the diverse people groups across North America and beyond. He has served churches in pastoral ministry in Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania and trained church planters who started postmodern Anglo, Mandarin, and Portuguese-language churches in Canada. He has trained pastors on three continents, conducted sociocultural research in both the United States and Canada; served as a professor of Evangelism & Church Planting at Prairie Bible College and Graduate School in Alberta, Canada and has taught at four other seminaries and graduates schools in the United States and Canada. His experience has also included serving as a Church Growth consultant where he led urban Canadian churches in strategic ministry development processes.

Before founding the Intercultural Institute, he served in the Church Planting Group at the North American Mission Board where he conducted sociocultural research among neotribal groups. Dr. Watke addresses aspects of North American culture, contextuality, and missional development in conferences throughout the US and Canada among pastors and denominational leaders. Watke has developed research methodologies and resource materials in helping pastors and church planters understand the neotribal cultures of North America. Similar to ethnolinguistic people groups, but not necessarily defined by ethnicity, neotribal cultures are groups of people who have similar behaviors, attitudes, and values.

He has a MA in Biblical Studies and a MDiv in Exegetical Studies from Biblical Seminary and a PhD with full majors in both Evangelism and Missions from Southwestern Seminary. His dissertation evaluated the sociological underpinnings of urban evangelization. He has also studied at the School of World Missions, Fuller Seminary; Perkins School of Theology, SMU; and at Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary.

Rodney Webb, DMin/Miss

Dr. Rodney Webb

Dr. Rodney Webb serves at IICM as Associate Director for Missional Partnerships. In this capacity he develops relationships with denominational agencies, mission agencies, and other non-profit organizations. Before joining the Intercultural Institute, he served for 35 years with the Home Mission Board and then North American Mission Board. He has extensive experience relating to ethnic church growth and church planting, having been a director in Language Missions, Multiethnic Ministry, Ethnic Church Growth, and Language Church Starting. Dr. Webb also served as the manager of the Anglo Church Planting Unit, developing the North American Anglo Church Planting Strategy. He has also given leadership to deaf ministries in the US and Canada. Dr. Webb has taught as an adjunct for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, for Tri-State School of Theology for the Deaf, and Christian Deaf Virtual University at Gardner Webb University. He has written several journal and magazine articles and chapters on topics related to deaf ministry and multiethnic ministry. He is listed in Who's Who in Religion, Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans, and in Who's Who in International Biography. Dr. Webb received a doctorate in missiology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His doctoral project evaluated the church planting outcomes of the Tampa Bay Area Billy Graham Crusade. He also has a M.Div from Southwestern Seminary and a B.A. in Sociology from Carson-Newman College.