Rev. Glenn Walker - Director has been a Southern Baptist Pastor for 25 years. He received his BA in Religion from Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina and his Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth, Texas. He is married to Rachel who is a Registered Nurse and they have two children. He has led and participated in mission trips to West Virginia, North Carolina coast, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Northern Africa, Honduras, and Ukraine. He has been involved in Missions training for short-term mission trips and Mission Conferences. He is Senior Pastor of Faith Community Church. He has served as Moderator for the Kings Mountain Baptist Association.

Mr. Barry Coker - Associate Director is a member of Faith Community Church. He received his education at Western Carolina University. He is married to Mary. He has been a national, state, local leader and Regional Men's Ministry Director for Promise Keepers. He has served as Director of Men’s Ministry in the Greater Cleveland County Baptist Association. He is been actively involved with mission projects in Rochester, New York, New York City, New Jersey and Long Island, New York.

Rita Scism - Associate Director has been involved with Hands On Missions for the past two and one half years. She has gone on several international mission trips, works in our office on Mondays and Fridays and is facilitating our local children’s ministry. She is married to Reggie and they have two sons. She is a member of New Bethel Baptist Church where she is the WMU Director, teaches a Sunday School class and has been Vacation Bible School Director for the past several years. Rita brings an added dimension to the ministry as she uses her gifts to minister to children and adults wherever God chooses to use her.

Lalisa Carpenter - FNP-C - Medical Director. Lalisa works as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the Spindale Family Practice. Through the years her career has advanced from an LPN to RN and now a Nurse Practitioner, and during all of those years, God was preparing her for medical mission work. She went with Hands On Missions to the Ukraine and has worked as the camp nurse for World Changers in Raleigh. She is actively involved in her church, Polkville Baptist Church. Lalisa is married to Craig and has four children, Josh, Michael, Katie and Ally.

Haley Hoke - RN, BSN - Medical Associate. Haley is a Registered Nurse and currently works in the Intensive Care Unit at Cleveland Regional Medical Center. She graduated in May, 2004 from UNC Chapel Hill’s school of nursing. Upon graduation, she moved to Charleston, SC where she worked on a bone marrow transplant unit. She has since then moved back to Shelby specifically to work with Hands On Missions. Haley has been on mission trips to Florida, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mexico, Ukraine, and Kenya. She is also a volunteer for the American Red Cross and trained in national and international disaster response.

Bryan Evans - Associate. Bryan is currently in his third year of his Masters in Divinity program at Gardner Webb University. Bryan graduated from UNC Charlotte in 2002 with a religious studies major and sociology minor. Bryan is presently a community based service professional at Kingspoint Academy, LLC. He counsels at-risk youth in the community as a one-on-one counselor and legal guardian. He is the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association’s Young Men Director. He is a member of Ramseur Missionary Baptist Church. Bryan has gone on two trips to Malawi, Africa with Hands On Missions.