Board Officers and Members

Ed Keefer (TX)
Chairperson

Ed Keefer is the past Texas State Chair and current KPMI Board of Directors Chair:  Ed started his Kairos journey in 1996 while living in Amarillo, TX.  The music leader serving on his Walk to Emmaus talked about 4th day opportunities to serve and he recommended Kairos.   After Ed had worked a couple of weekends his wife, Bettye, joined him as an active member of the support team.  While living in the Panhandle they were privileged to be involved in a couple of new starts, both Men’s Inside and Kairos Outside.  In 2000 they moved to their current residence in Cedar Park, TX where they have been active in a couple of units.  Ed has served as a weekend leader, Advisory Council chairperson, state chapter representative, Texas Chapter chairperson, and as a KPMI at-large board member.  Ed says, "I have learned that we all, inside or out, need to hear the life changing reality of Jesus Christ presented as He, I think, would present it, listen, listen, love, love.  We all need to know that someone cares enough to give a part of themselves to another yet not demanding anything in return. Kairos has done this, is doing this and needs to continue doing this."

Priscilla Durkin is a chaplain at Southern Correctional Institution in Troy, North Carolina. This facility houses approximately 200 minimum custody males on one end of the campus and 500 medium/close custody females on the other end of the campus.  Kairos Inside came to Southern for the first time in 2009. Chaplain Durkin is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She is curious about many things which led her to a BA in Spanish Education, MS in Recreation Therapy, MDiv in Theology, and a Doctorate in Ministry with an emphasis on spiritual direction.  Hospitality is one of her gifts and she loves to share kairos and chronos time with her two adult daughters and sons-in-law and 5 grandchildren. Her guiding scripture is to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with [our] God”. (Micah 6:8)

Mr. David Garmus served in various Council, Area, and Florida State roles, including twice as the Florida State Chair, before serving as an IC Representative and the Board. He currently serves on the HR, Long Range Planning, and Finance Committees. Mr. Garmus stated: “It was in Kairos that I found my faith strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit; I experienced and witnessed God's love, peace and joy during every correctional institution visit. I have been truly blessed by God in serving Him. I strongly believe in the power of individual and group prayer and rely upon my Faith in God in every thing I do.”

Mr. Garmus was a Navy Supply Corps Officer and the Development Manager at the CACI Design and Development Center before founding DDB Software and The David Consulting Group. He currently serves as a Past President of the International Function Point Users Group and as a Founding Director of Waste Not Want Not in Orange Park, FL. He received a BS from UCLA; Honor Graduate recognition at Navy Supply Corps School; MBA from Harvard Business School; and a Certificate in Team Leadership Development in Nonprofit Organizations from Rollins College.

Mr. McNemar is presently a Torch mentor at Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility in Ohio and a member of the KPMI Board of Directors. He has been active in Kairos Inside at four prisons in southern Ohio. He was part of the group to organize the first Torch in an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility. He has also worked as a volunteer in church, Boy Scouts and Rotary International.

Mr. Wilson is the current KPMI Board Treasurer.  Peter has been a Kairos volunteer for 13 years in WA after being introduced to Kairos as a volunteer at the Darrington Unit in TX in 1991.  He has served at the AC and State level as Chair and was responsible for introducing Kairos to Clallam Bay CC in 2005.

 Mr. Charles Belitz has worked since 1995 with Kairos Prison Ministry  Inside in positions in three prisons including Assistant Table Leader, Table Leader, Table Clergy, Observing Leader, Weekend Leader, Advising Leader, Advisory Council Member sequentially for two prisons, and State Chapter Committee representative. He also worked on a Kairos Outside Team and for two years at the state level for Prison Fellowship Ministry.  Mr. Belitz says, “Only in Kairos can one see so many cold, hardened men so dramatically and so quickly changed.”

 Mr. Belitz retired as a Colonel after twenty-five years in the Army. He owned and operated a large poultry farm for seven years and then returned to industry. There, he served as President of a Defense Contractor company and as a member of its corporate board.  Mr. Belitz has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering.

Ms. Boutin's Kairos experiences includes:  NH Advisory Council for 9 years;  AKT-KO Trainer since 1999;  NH State Chapter Committee Chair for 3 years; KPMI Board of Directors for 3 years; Organizational Committee helping create the SCCOP and ACOP Documents;  Re-wrote 2003 KO Manual; worked with Mike Springer developing EZRA-KO, updated AKT-KO Power Point presentation; and most currently was elected to the KPMI Board of Directors.

Dr. Hankins has served in the Kairos Ministry for 16 years. He began in the Men’s Inside Ministry and then helped establish the Pilot Program of Torch in Arkansas. He presently serves in both ministries and is a member of the Arkansas State Chapter Committee.

Three years ago, as a new BODs member, he was asked to serve on the ad hoc Structure Committee which was charged with restructuring the leadership organization. He was elected to the Executive Committee the following winter. At last year’s Winter Board Meeting he was elected to the newly formed Board of Directors where he is currently serving on the Human Resources and Strategic Planning Committees. His wife, Beverly, serves as a Torch Trainer and is presently a member of the International Council.

Dr. Hankins has practiced Dentistry in Arkadelphia Arkansas for 31 years. He has continually participated in Volunteer Missions in Central and South America.

Mr. Lynn Holmes first became involved in Kairos Prison Ministry after participating as a pilgrim in North Alabama Emmaus early in 2000.  He was invited to participate in Bibb Correctional Facility Kairos # 4 in March of 2000.  Since that time he has participated in 12 Kairos weekends in all positions.  In addition he has been active in two day retreats as leader, food service, and musician and has been regularly active in monthly reunions.

 In leadership roles Mr. Holmes has been active in the local Advisory Council as State Chapter Representative and Advisory Council Chair.  He was elected to the Alabama State Chapter Chair position in 2008 and served two years in that capacity.

 On the national level He serves as one of the AKT trainers, has led AC workshops, and currently chairs the Inside Program.  Recently he was part of a two man team who revised and produced the Excellence in Initiative for Kairos Inside.

 Lynn Holmes very much believes in the mission of Kairos Prison Ministry and the Kairos Prison Ministry method.  When asked he said, “My participation in KPMI is a reflection of my desire to see continued growth of the Body of Christ within the prison walls through the inside ministry, within the families of the incarcerated through the KO program and to stop the continued growth of the prison population through the mentoring program offered by Kairos Torch.”

Mr. Jim Miller served as the Kairos of Georgia, State Chairman in 2008 and 2009. In mid-2010 he was elected to the Kairos Board of Directors and invited to be the Chairman of the recently formed Human Resources Committee. This experience has been beneficial helping him recognize the many behind the scenes responsibilities that are carried out by the Executive Director and the KPMI staff.

 Although it was not yet clear to him, Mr. Miller’s Kairos journey began in 1997 when he and his wife Karen experienced a Cursillo Walk in Santa Rosa, California.

They wanted to get involved but did not really recognize the how, when and where. It all became very clear when they took early retirement and relocated to Georgia in 2000 to be with their daughter and grandchildren. The first couple they met at their new church asked if they had ever heard of Kairos.

 Mr. Miller became a Kairos volunteer in 2001 at Hays State Prison in Trion, Georgia. In the seven years prior to becoming State Chairman he served in many positions on the Hays Advisory Council including Institution Liaison and Weekend Leader.

 “I have learned a great deal about myself while serving as a volunteer in Kairos. My 30 years in business management have been beneficial but I acknowledge that I would have been a better person and a better leader if I could have experienced Kairos earlier in my life.  I now know for certain that the Lord blessed me with some skills that I will now use to be a useful servant in His ministry.”

Christine Money began her career in Corrections in 1981 in Social Services at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution.  She was promoted to Director of Social Services in 1982 at Lima Correctional Institution and later in 1985 appointed to Deputy Warden at the Ohio Reformatory for Women.  Christine was appointed her first Warden’s duties at Franklin Pre-Release Center in 1988 and was honored to return as Warden in 1992 to ORW.  Ms. Money served as the Warden at Marion Correctional Institution from 1996 – 2005.  Ms. Money joined the Executive Staff at the Ohio Department of Youth Services in November, 2005, where she serves as Special Assistant to Director Tom Stickrath.  She is responsible for Reentry Services which includes oversight of faith-based and community services.  In 2006, DYS launched its Community Saturation Initiative.  There are now trained teams in every juvenile facility and parole region to lead a major effort to recruit faith-based and community organizations to engage with youth.  President George Bush honored Ms. Money for outstanding leadership in Faith-Based Programming in Corrections.  She holds a Bachelor of Social Services from the University of Kentucky and received her master degree in Social Services from the Ohio State University.  Ms. Money believes that every individual has the capacity to change and it is her obligation as a correction’s professional to offer quality opportunities to offenders to restore their lives.

Reverend Greg Moser has been a volunteer in North Carolina for 8 years where he has served at 3 male  prisons, one a new start-up.  He has served on the Advisory Council in different aspects; North Carolina State Committee as clergy representative, was elected in 2010 to serve the newly formed International Council of Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc., and during the Winter Conference was elected to serve the Board of Directors. Pastor Moser currently serves 2 small rural churches in eastern North Carolina and is employed by Waukesha Electric Systems as a Planner.

“I am truly blessed that God has called me to the wonderful ministry called Kairos, it is definitely God’s Time and not our own.  This is a ministry in which all aspects of God’s people can corporately come together and through the power of the Holy Spirit be wielded as instruments of mercy and grace to change lives.”

Reverend Chuck Pollak has been a South Carolina volunteer since 2002.  He has served at 4 male prisons (three were start-ups) and 1 female prison in the U.S.  Reverend Pollak also served on both South Carolina Death Row Weekends and on Nicaragua #1.  He served on the South Carolina State Committee 4 years. Elected to KPMI Board in 2007, and to Executive Committee and as Kairos Secretary in 2008.  In 2010 he was elected to the new, smaller Board and as Vice Chair Planning.

In 2007 he was approved to begin the process to become ordained in the Episcopal Church and later that year appointed as Assistant Chaplain at a South Carolina male medium security prison.  He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in May, 2010.

Reverend Pollak graduated from U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 (B.S.) and later earned M.S.E.E. degree.  He is a retired Navy Captain who skippered the nuclear submarine “Lafayette” for four years.  He also was the Principal Military Advisor to Nuclear Weapons Limitation Talks (SALT) and the Chief of the SALT Division for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, participating in negotiations in Geneva with the delegation from the former Soviet Union.  He also was a Major Program Manager and featured on the CBS Program “60 Minutes”.  He worked for 3 public corporations as executive in Engineering, Strategic Planning, Marketing and Sales.  Reverend Pollak and his wife then sailed over 36,000 miles in their 51’ sailboat, visiting dozens of foreign countries before moving permanently to South Carolina in 2001.

In 1973 Mr. John Thompson Jr. finished law school and began practicing in Miami, Fl. For the next 28 years he practiced civil litigation in the areas of medical-legal, products liability, nursing homes and auto. During his legal career he was blessed to serve the Dade County Bar (professionalism, civil litigation and medical liaison committees), State of Florida (human rights advocate for mental health facilities), the University of Miami (professionalism workshop and moot court judge), The City of Miami (sister city program), Legal Services of Greater Miami (executive committee). During his career he was frequently asked to speak at Miami area hospitals and attorney groups.

In 2001 he was selected as the executive director of Kairos Prison Ministry.

Mr. Thompson has served on the boards of directors of Greater Miami Youth for Christ, State of Florida DOC Foundation, Legal Services of Greater Miami, The Upper Room Walk to Emmaus International Advisory Committee, and Camillus House (advisory board food and clothing chairperson).

He has served on different committees within his church including the building committee. He has been a Eucharist minister, a lay reader, worked on the Festival for the Poor, and actively participated in the life of his Church.

Mr. Thompson began as a volunteer for Kairos in the late 80's, has been a team leader, advisory council member, AKT instructor and now the executive director for over 9 years. He has visited and participated in ministry at numerous prisons in the USA and internationally.