Meet the Board

President/Founder

Kevin P. Gagnon started a real estate development company in 1983. The primary focus of his company was the development of retail shopping centers for regional and national companies. Kevin continues to own and manage the holdings of his company. Kevin brings to the ministry years of experience in construction planning, development and governmental negotiation’s, which aid’s in church planting, community center development and other construction needs.

Kevin serves on the Board of Trusties for Valley Forge Christian College located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Treasurer

Theresa M. Gagnon has been involved in the acquisition, renovation and ongoing management of residential real estate for over 26 years. She manages properties in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with her specialty being financially distressed, foreclosed and bank-owned homes. Theresa’s passion for the Lord and the love of her work has moved her to help others into home ownership that otherwise may not be able to purchase a home because of credit, employment or other hindering issues. Theresa also uses her love of photography to help local Christian Artists and Organizations in the advancement of their Kingdom efforts. Theresa has a great desire to bless others. She lives by Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

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Pastor Dan Abbatiello, (or P.D. as he is affectionately known), has been in full-time vocational ministry for the past 33 years. After graduating from Central Bible College, he and his wife, Angela, moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dan became the assistant pastor at Bethel Assembly of God. While there his responsibilities included youth, music, preschool director and District Youth Director. Angela served as teacher, bookkeeper, church pianist and most importantly, mom. Nine years later the couple and their two children moved to Windham, Maine, where Pastor Dan became Lead Pastor of Windham Assembly of God Ministries. Angela continued to use her bookkeeping skills and also taught at Windham Christian Academy. While Lead Pastor, Dan also served as Superintendent of Windham Christian Academy and as a Sectional Presbyter and the Assistant District Superintendent for the Northern New England District Council of the Assemblies of God. Dan and Angela have been married for 34 years. Their son Vince serves as a university English teacher in Zheng Zhou, China, and their daughter Danielle, also a teacher, is married to Jason Cooper who is in vocational ministry. After 24 years at Windham Assembly, P.D. will be moving to the district office where he will serve as Director of Development for NNED which involves coordinating new church planting, church revitalization and church health.

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Rev. Dennis Marquardt has a rich history of over 33 years of ministry, having served as a Pastor in rural North Dakota, and then several years as a Youth Pastor in a large urban Assembly of God Church in Arlington, VA. In 1978 he and his wife Bevie Jo pioneered a new Assembly of God Church in Vergennes, Vermont with the Northern New England Assemblies of God home mission’s program and served this congregation for 24 years as Senior Pastor. In the past he has served as a sectional Presbyter, Assistant Superintendent, and District parliamentarian; also served on several district committees. He presently serves as a General Presbyter nationally, and as a member of the board of Trustees for Valley Forge Christian College and Zion Bible College and is the District Superintendent of Northern New England District of the Assemblies of God which covers the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. He also serves on a number of other Para-church ministry boards.

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Bill acknowledges that his best decision ever was committing his life to Christ as a child, and continuing with a deep commitment towards his ever-growing faith.....his biggest accomplishment in life to-date is that he and wife Terry have been married for almost 32 years, with three wonderful children and four beautiful grandchildren who lovingly call him "Papa." Family is paramount and his life's highest priority, only second to his faith and God relationship.

Bill has worked in commercial construction for 36 years, has extensive knowledge of construction and details, planning and coordination of construction, as well as project and people management. Haven worked his entire adult life (almost three decades) for two construction companies; he finally stepped out in faith and started his first consulting business in 2005, and has never looked back. Currently he is a managing partner in Perspective CM, Inc - a construction management firm focused on the market of commercial construction.

Over the last two years, haven been on missions trips to Nicaragua and Kenya, he is looking forward to serving others and sharing God's love through SGIM. His heart for this ministry is based on a life-long understanding and getting to know who God is. Believing that God expects and commissions us to love one another, and to have compassion for others, by giving of talents, time, and resources, Bill humbly brings what God has blessed him with to this ministry, and supports it expecting God's hand to move mightily...for eternity-sake, through the efforts of SGIM.

Other interests include reading, writing, mission projects....and anything that has to do with getting on the water.

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Karla Gagnon has been married to Kevin Gagnon for 20 years and mother to their three beautiful children, Chelsea, Kevin Jr. and Cheyanne. Karla has maintained an active role in the co-management of the retail holding’s that she and her husband own.

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Chelsea Gagnon has had a heart for serving the Lord since she was very young. In the second grade her teacher asked the students to write what they think they would one day like to do. Chelsea said “I want to work with children and tell them about Jesus”.

Chelsea has certainly followed her heart and God’s call on her life. When Chelsea was 15 she served in Nicaragua and India. Last year she served in Mathare Valley located in Nairobi, Kenya.

In September of 2008, Chelsea will attend one year at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry located in Redding, California. In the fall of 2009 Chelsea will attend Valley Forge Christian Collage located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Chelsea will major in social work.

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Dr. Gene Glad is an orthodontist; practicing and living in Maine for twenty-six years. He has been part of the yachting and marina communities in both Maine and the Caribbean. Gene lived in the islands for ten years-practicing dentistry and flying as a commercial pilot. During those years he saw firsthand the great need for God in both the marinas and the local populations. Numerous missions and vacation trips to Latin America have fueled his desire to see these areas reached and healed.