Board of Directors

Rev. Dr. Robin Stoops

Board Chairman

Rev. Dr. Robin Stoops is currently serving as the Transitional Lead Pastor of First Baptist Church of Topeka, KS. He is also working part-time with ABCUSA as the Mission Resource Coordinator, and the Coordinator of the Burma Refugee Commission.

The Rev. Dr. Robin D. Stoops has been a pastor for thirty-nine years. He served as Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska for twelve years. During his ministry he has pastored churches in South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Stoops is a graduate of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kan., with a bachelor’s degree in education, North American Baptist Seminary (now Sioux Falls Seminary, Karios University) with a Master of Divinity degree, and completed a doctoral degree in Missional Leadership/Contextual Theology at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Ill. He also completed a professional certificate in Negotiation and Mediation from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas and received a certificate in Religious Fundraising from the Lake Institute at Indiana University. He was awarded the Pastor of the Year award in 2008 by the American Baptist Men of Nebraska.

His work with the American Baptist Churches has included preaching, pastoral searches, leadership training, conflict transformation, and consultation with churches in mission giving and development. He has also led multiple Mission Study Trips in South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa with pastors from ABC of Nebraska to visit missionaries and partners. Stoops has been a Special Assistant to Theological Education for Burma with International Ministries. He has also served as the Treasurer for the Regional Executive Ministers Council, one of three officer positions in the REMC. He is the founder and director of ChurchHelp.net, a ministry working with unaffiliated churches to provide pastoral searches, leadership training and conflict transformation on a fee basis.

Stoops and his wife Kathy Stoops will celebrate 50 years of marriage in July of 2025. They have three grown children, eight grandchildren and two miniature dachshunds.

Zo Tum Hmung

Secretary (Acting)

Zo Tum Hmung, President and CEO of the Burma Research Institute (formerly known as the Chin Association of Maryland, Inc.), previously co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Center-Union of Burma (ENAC), a research center that supports the peace process and development of democratic institutions in Burma. Mr. Hmung completed his master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School focusing on foreign policy and negotiations and also finished his Master of Theological Studies with a concentration in Christian Faith and Public Policy from Eastern University’s Palmer Seminary. He also graduated with a bachelor’s in theological studies in Burma. He was born in Chin State, Burma, and currently lives with his family in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Dr. Jenny Siegel

Board Member

Dr. Siegel is Assistant Professor, BSW and MSW Practicum Director in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Rev. Tim Siemens

Advisory Member

Rev. Siemens graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1985 and has spent the last 34 years on staff with Grace Community Church in a variety of roles. Before his retirement in May of 2019 he was an elder.