Meet Our Board Members

Kelly Doherty is the Founding Brand Manager at Kiepersol specializing in photography, graphic design, and brand communications. For 25 years she has helped to build the classic Texas food, wine, and spirits destination. 

Her passion for helping others also comes out in her spare time as a joy and well-being life coach helping women struggling with overdrinking. She also loves supporting the intellectually and developmentally challenged adult community and sees their pure hearts as a clear light we can all be inspired by.

Believing that God has a special story to tell with each person's unique life, she holds faith over fear in every situation. Kelly lives on the vineyard with her dog Coco and travels extensively.

 Chris Power has been married to Velmay for over 12 years.  He loves his wife deeply and considers it his joy to be a faithful and loving husband to her and their two beautiful children.  They currently reside in Tyler, Texas, and are members at Central Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Texas. 

After completing his bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas at Tyler, Chris has spent most of his career on the “business” side of organizations.  With over 30 years in the environmental consulting field, he is the current Executive Vice President of a local firm.  Chris has also been sole-owner of an environmental contracting company for over 25 years.  Chris grew up in a missionary church family, where his grandad’s were both in the ministry serving as a pastor and a missionary, and his father was a song leader.  He credits his strong desire to serve others to his father and mother who were both active in serving in the church throughout his childhood, from leading the singing, teaching Sunday school classes, cleaning the church, singing in the choir, to picking up bus kids on Sunday.  There was never a time Chris was present that he wasn’t shown by example from his parents and grandparents how to serve others.

Chris enjoys sports, fishing, and anything outdoors, but spending time with his family is his true joy.  Chris looks forward to and appreciates the opportunity to use his business skills (creating, developing, sustaining, and growing for nonprofit and for-profit companies) for ministry purposes.  He looks forward to doing the same for the Bridges ministry.

Duane dedicates his time to his family, teaching, preaching and to financial coaching He spent the past decade as an Oregon State Representative (8 years) and a Pastor at River Valley Church.
He helped establish A.C.T (Abolish Child Trafficking) Southern Oregon and  K.I.D.S in Uganda to help rescue orphans. In addition, Duane coordinated the creation of CAFAY, the Community Alliance for At-risk Youth and helped launch "Every Child" in Josephine County.

Duane has been married to his wife for more than 19 years. They are the proud parents of eight children and have been certified foster parents for over a decade. Duane focuses his time on teaching, financial coaching, pastoral ministry and bringing awareness to the plight of foster children around the nation.