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The Christian Family Care Agency staff is made up of over 100 paid and volunteer individuals who lovingly serve children, families and the community. A few names that you may have already met and whom are leaders for the Agency are as follows.
Mark Upton President / CEO
PHOENIX – August 17, 2007 – For the first time in its 25-year history, Christian Family Care Agency (CFCA) has a new leader charting its course.
Scottsdale’s Mark Upton, formerly the Executive Vice President/Provost of Phoenix Seminary, is the Agency’s new President. He assumes a role previously held solely by CFCA founder Kay Ekstrom. Ekstrom announced her retirement earlier this year (2007) after leading the private, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) social services agency since its founding in 1982.
“I’m honored to take the vision God gave Kay 25 years ago and now expand and refocus it,” Upton said. “I look forward to working closely with CFCA’s board and staff to help build the future, one child at a time.”
A licensed minister with Scottsdale Bible Church, Upton assumes CFCA’s leadership October 1st after serving at Phoenix Seminary for more than nine years. During his tenure, he helped mold the institution’s work culture into an environment recognized by Christianity Today Magazine as the nation’s best Christian workplace for four consecutive years. He also led the institution through its initial accreditation with the Association of Theological Schools and Higher Learning Commission.
Upton brings a deep and abiding love for our Lord, a love for children and families, and a passion for excellence to the ministry of CFCA. He also brings more than 21 years of experience in the finance and real estate industries to his new position and has served on various community boards.
God has been speaking to his heart about the opportunity at CFCA, and together with the Search Committee and CFCA's Board of Directors, there has been affirmation that he is the servant God has chosen to lead this ministry into the future.
Mark Upton is married to Lorraine and they have a son and two daughters, as well as eight grandchildren (2 adopted). They have lived in the valley for over thirty years.
Diane Zapponi Vice President of Marketing & Community Relations
Diane’s background includes 23 years experience in marketing communications. She holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Arizona State University. While at America West Airlines, Diane’s marketing and design experience included starting up an in-house design department, ad agency, and launching the airline into new domestic and international markets. She has extensive experience in marketing as well as design, production, promotion and printing.
While at QLM Marketing, a national promotion agency, Diane served as the on-site account manager for The Dial Corporation account, planning and implementing national promotions, sweepstakes programs and new product introductions.
In 1994, she leveraged her marketing and design experience by forming ZAP! Marketing Design - an award winning, a full service marketing consulting firm. Projects include marketing, advertising, promotions, collateral production, package design, public relations, interactive media, and product development for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500, as well as non profits and ministries. She served on the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Board of Directors, and has served in an advisory capacity for many Christian ministries.
In May of 2000, through the Lord’s direction, she launched A.M.E.N. - Associates in Media and Entertainment Network, a ministry designed to offer Godly encouragement to believers working in the realm of media, entertainment and related industries, as well as providing a communications vehicle to globally link believers together for the expressed purpose of impacting the secular media culture with positive, God-honoring alternatives.
From 2001-2002 she co-hosted H.O.T. (Hour of Truth) RADIO, a weekly, 1 hour, live call-in talk show in Phoenix, Arizona on KPXQ 1360AM. H.O.T. RADIO was the first ministry outreach of A.M.E.N., and discussed topics of concern to Christians, as well as non-Christians. The Gospel was presented at the conclusion every show.
In February of 2004, the Lord directed her path to take on the role as Christian Family Care Agency's Director of Marketing & Development.
Diane was promoted to Vice President of Marketing & Community Relations in 2005. She directs and oversees the marketing & branding of the ministry, as well as community relations, and fundraising events. Her ultimate goal is to make CFCA a household word throughout Arizona and the country by utilizing communication, cooperation and collaboration. She also serves in various ministry capacities outside the agency.
Diane has taken her work home with her by becoming a licensed foster parent, and recently finalized the adoption of her foster child.
Originally from Joliet, Illinois, she has lived in Arizona since 1980.
Pam Giardina Vice President of Programs, Southern Arizona
Pam Giardina serves as the Vice President of Programs in the Tucson office. She holds a Master of Science in Special Education with a Major in Rehabilitation Counseling. Pam became a licensed professional counselor in January of 2006. She also has a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and was formally a certified Teacher in New York. Since 2001, Pam has been a Peer Reviewer for COA.
Since 1989, Pam has served as a Pregnancy and Adoption Services (PAS) Counselor, a Foster Care Ongoing home worker, she did Children At Risk Emphasis (CARE), Family Counseling and was Coordinator over the PAS Program. In 1998, in collaboration with CFCA, Catholic Social Services (CSS) and Arizona Baptist, she coordinated the Abstinence Education grant for all three agencies. More recently Pam was the Social Services Program Manager and then Director of Social Services, until taking on her current responsibilities of VP of Programs in Southern AZ.
Prior to CFCA, Pam and her husband Sal were in the ministry full-time and before that she worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor in a residential treatment center for adolescents, and with St. Joseph's Medical Center in their drug program.
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