American Missionary Fellowship

Linda’s professional career started in Washington, D.C.  There she worked for several non-profit organizations and sat on the boards of non-profit and local community organizations.  In 2001, the career of Linda’s husband, Foster, moved the family to Philadelphia. Linda quickly became involved in volunteer activities at their sons’ school. Within months of moving to the area, she started to serve on the board of her sons’ PTO and finished six years later as the PTO president. At church, she was called to be a part of a nine-million-dollar capital campaign to build a new chapel. She also joined the local library’s Board of Trustees, through which she helped the library raise six million dollars for an addition and renovation. 

About the time Linda’s volunteer commitments were coming to a close, a friend of AMF told her about a service opportunity on the mission’s staff. She has been with AMF since June 2006.

Linda believes that the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the godly steward is all encompassing and leads to a generosity that counters core humanistic teachings and ethics. As she is fond of saying, “Stewardship and discipleship run parallel lives in the lives of believers. Disciples are generous stewards, and generous stewards are disciples.”

Linda and Foster have two sons and a dog named Columbus.