Meet our Advisory Board
We are grateful to our volunteer advisory board.
We have the same heart and desire to invite all the Family Table.
Pam D'Andre
Founder & Director
A graduate of Presbyterian School of Nursing(Philadelphia, Pa) and then LaSalle University (Philadelphia, Pa) with her BSN, Pam worked in different areas from orthopedics to management. She moved to Kyiv, Ukraine in 2001 under Music Mission Kyiv, and began ministering to the poor, elderly and needy teaching lay people along the way, the principles of Faith Community Nursing. Pam is now the Faith Community Nursing Coordinator for Ukraine and an EFCA/Reach Global missionary. She helped establish The Association for Christian Nurses and Volunteers-Welfare (Blago) organization in 2012. This is a teaching organization, and its foundation principles and education are from Westberg Institute. (https://westberginstitute.org) She is also helped establish Social Rehabilitation Center Logos in Kotzubinske, Ukraine.
Pam desires to live out the scripture,”…I was sick and you visited me…when did we do this Lord…When you have done this to the least of your brethren and sisteren, you have done this unto Me.”(Mtt 25:35-45) At this juncture in her missionary career, it seems God is leading her to focus on connecting like-minded ministries so that together the marginalized realize they have a place at The Table, therefore she established The Family Table Ukraine in January 2022.
She enjoys hiking, knitting cooking and spending time with her 3 grown sons, and “adopted” Ukrainian daughter - Nate, Kraze, Zhenya, and Linda.
Gary and Susan Bauer
Board Members
Gary and Susan Bauer have known Pam Dandre since 2001, when she first arrived in Ukraine. They are missionaries with Global Business Success Foundation (www.alptx.org) and video production entrepreneurs who have served leaders in Ukraine since 1997. The Bauers cooperate with Pam often, love the people and nation of Ukraine, and are documentary storytellers with compassionate hearts. Both graduated from Belhaven University, and Gary earned a M.A. in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Based in Garland, Texas, Gary and Susan have been married 50 years. They are members of Lake Ridge Bible Church and blessed with two married daughters and eight grandchildren.
Mary Martin
Board Member
Mary Martin, MSN, RN: Education: BSN from Winona State University (1993), MSN from Bethel University, November, 2020. Has been an FCN since 2006 (FCN Foundations Course Concordia College 2006), Westberg Institute Coordinator Training 2018, Course Educator Training 2020. Experience: Her nursing background includes mental health, acute care, home-care and long-term care with a focus on quality of life nursing. Additional background includes adjunct clinical nursing instructor and former Director of Faith Community Nursing (FCN). She currently works as Director of an adult day center, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s and other dementias. She also has been involved in Faith Community Nursing in Ukraine since 2012, including teaching portions of the FCN Foundations course in Ukraine. She has served on the Board of Directors of Logos International for several years. Currently serves on the Faith Community Nurses International Board of Directors as the Practice Committee Chair and involved in Nurses Christian Fellowship on the Minnesota leadership team. Mary is the faith community nurse at her church in rural Minnesota.
When Mary isn’t working as a nurse, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three grown boys, worshipping in church and enjoying the wonder of God’s creation while hiking, skiing or just relaxing in the great outdoors.
Chris Malone
Board Member
Chris and his wife, Mary, are missionaries near Kyiv where they serve families who are affected by disability. They have nine children. Five of their children have Down syndrome (four of them are adopted from Ukraine). Chris served in different pastoral roles at First Moore Baptist Church in Moore, Oklahoma for 26 years before they moved to Ukraine to live full time. They returned to the States for furlough in January 2022. Because of the ongoing war in Ukraine, they are currently living in Moore, Oklahoma. They continue to minister to many of "their" refugees who are in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They also remain in close contact with many of their friends and ministry partners in Ukraine.
Mason Stoltzfus
Board Member
I grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I completed my undergraduate studies at Eastern Mennonite University, where I met my wife, Marina. Marina, having grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, introduced me to Ukraine and its culture. I had the privilege of traveling to Lutsk, Ukraine in 2018, with Marina, to serve at a camp for individuals with developmental disabilities. Now, despite being busy with wrapping up my medical doctor degree at the Penn State University College of Medicine, I am eager to continue support the Ukrainian people through TFTU.
Marina Baker
Board Member
Although I was born in Chicago, I spent my childhood - from ages 2 to 12 - in Kyiv, where I was educated in the public school system of Podil and spent summers in our village of Grigorivka. I grew up fully immersed in my Ukrainian identity. However, I had to readjust that identity when I moved back to America, where I lived in various places, including outside of Philadelphia, in southern Virginia, and now in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
While studying for my undergraduate degree, I pursued cross-cultural studies throughout the Middle East, where I met my husband, Mason. I have spent many summers revisiting Kyiv and reconnecting with my roots.
Currently, I work as a registered nurse at Penn State Medical Center, where my husband, Mason, is attending medical school. We share a passion for Ukraine and her people, public health, and justice.
Meet Our Minsitry Partners
Sasha Suprun
Ministry Partner
and Administrator
I am Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Suprun. I served in the Ministry of Mercy Vans (dentistry). My job was to sterilize and prepare dental kits for patient treatment.
I studied at the International Christian University "Vision", to become a missionary and theologian.
I serve at the Family Table Ukraine, because in this organization, God gave me such an opportunity to serve for His glory.
