City Vision Staff, Faculty & Leadership

City Vision Staff & Academic Leadership

Management and Ministry Faculty

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Addiction Counseling Faculty

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TechMission/City Vision Board

City Vision Mentors

City Vision has a group that mentors students in our ORG350 & ORG650: Mentored Ministry & Leadership course listed below. In addition, any CVU faculty listed above may serve as a mentor.

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Dr. Terrell Carter

Mentoring Domains: Executive Director, Community Development, Black Church Leadership, Chief Diversity Officer, Mentoring
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Jody Veler

Mentoring Domains: Executive Director, Community Development, Women in Leadership, Black Leadership, Government and Politics
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Commissioner Jim Knaggs

Mentoring Domains: Salvation Army (former Western Territory Commander), Leadership, Executive Leadership, Nonprofit Management, Urban Ministry
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Shawna Fitz

Mentoring Domains: Social Work & Economic Development, Project Management, Women and BIPOC in Tech
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Colonel Dr. Janet Munn

Mentoring Domains: Women in Leadership, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Education Leadership, Salvation Army, Social Justice
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Dr. Jeff Cook

Mentoring Domains: Nonprofit Programs, Social Enterprises, Food Services, Catering Business, Operations, Rescue Missions
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Major Dr. Brian Jones

Mentoring Domains: Salvation Army, Spiritual Formation, Pastoral Ministry, Christian Higher Education
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Michael Liimatta

Mentoring Domains: Christian Addiction Recovery, Rescue Missions, Nonprofit Management, Pastoral Ministry
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Deborah Torres

Mentoring Domains: Development, Women & Families Ministry, Rescue Missions, Women in Leadership
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Dick McMillen

Mentoring Domains: Executive Leadership, Development, Rescue Missions
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Tom Zobel

Mentoring Domains: Executive Leadership, Development, Rescue Missions
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Penny Kevet

Mentoring Domains: Executive Leadership, Development, Rescue Missions, Board Development, Women in Leadership
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Dr. John Frank

Mentoring Domains: Development, Board Development, Rescue Missions
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John Savage

Mentoring Domains: Development, Board Development, Leadership, Rescue Missions
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Dr. Jack Briggs

Mentoring Domains: Executive Leadership, Board Development, Rescue Missions
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Dr. Jeff Cook

Mentoring Domains: Chief Program Officer, Social Entrepreneurship, Food Services & Catering

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Goal 1: Wounded Healers: to enable those who were formerly addicted, homeless or in prison to gain life skills and employment.

Goal 2: Staff Leadership Development: to train leaders in Christian ministries to more effectively serve the poor and addicted.

Goal 3: Human Capacity: to recruit and develop faculty and staff so they can provide effective education to our students, further our mission and pursue their own calling.

Goal 4: Systems Capacity: to provide effective accounting, finance, technology and administrative support to City Vision University’s programs and services in a way that reflects our values and achieves our mission. 

Goal 5: Financial Capacity: to secure significantly increased resources and expanded enrollment enabling City Vision to add new programs, expand existing programs and further our mission.

This statement of faith comes primarily from the statement of faith of National Association of Evangelicals, with a few minor elements of CCDA’s statement of faith added to reflect our justice values:
  • We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God and through it we are called to live out justice, reconciliation and redemption. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  • We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential and that the church nurtures God’s people gathered as a community to carry out God’s Word.
  • We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
  • We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
  • We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

City Vision University is a “doing business as name” of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry, TechMission. They are essentially the same organization with the same staff, board, finances, etc. TechMission previously had programs other than City Vision, but now it is essentially our only program. TechMission is incorporated in Massachusetts, whereas City Vision University is based out of Kansas City, Missouri.