FaithBridge Foster Care hires Chief Church Relations Officer

Alpharetta, GA (April 20, 2009) - FaithBridge Foster Care announced today that Terence Chatmon has been hired as Chief Church Relations Officer (CCRO). In this newly-created role, Chatmon is responsible for cultivating and developing relationships with church partners in order to grow the number of foster care ministries, both across Georgia and across the nation.

Chatmon brings with him over 25 years experience in corporate affairs and ministry, making him uniquely qualified to act in a business development capacity for FaithBridge Foster Care, which helps churches create and manage foster care ministries. He has played a key role in implementing sales execution plans for several Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Citigroup and The Coca-Cola Company. Most recently, he served as vice president of community outreach for Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO, where he provided strategic and tactical leadership over the entire community impact outreach function. While there, he led a team of volunteers as part of a national summit on foster care that educated, mobilized and equipped leaders in the evangelical community to take on the challenge of local and worldwide foster care.

Bill Hancock, President and CEO of FaithBridge Foster Care commented on the hiring, "With FaithBridge poised to enter a period of tremendous growth, Terence Chatmon's experience will help us bring new churches and families into our organization, furthering our mission of providing homes for our communities' neediest children and reaching out to help families with children in the foster care system. We are blessed to have him with us."