International (MNN) ― When a ministry like Trans World Radio looks for new leadership, they look for someone who is not afraid to navigate new waters.
TWR chose Lauren Libby to take the helm as the mission's fourth president. Libby succeeds David G. Tucker, who stepped down from his position earlier this year.
"As we move into the digital arena with digital, virtual communities and other means of transmitting the Gospel," says Libby, "and transmitting things that help people grow in their relationship with Jesus, we need to move into the future. We need to look in terms of what God is doing, and look in terms of what the new vehicles are."
Thomas J. Lowell, TWR's chairman of the Board of Directors anticipates the passion that Libby will bring to their team. "In my conversations with Lauren, I sense that he is a man with a passion for serving the Lord and that he has a strong interest in the people who serve in this ministry as well as those who support TWR. He brings to our organization significant knowledge of radio, experience in leadership of a mission organization, and a strong desire to lead TWR into the future."
Libby comes to TWR with nearly thirty years experience guiding The Navigators under a similar vision.
A member of the Board of Directors for the National Religious Broadcasters, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and Northwestern College, Libby is also president and CEO of New Horizons Foundation - a public charity designed to help donors accomplish their giving objectives in education, research, humanitarian aid, religion and health-related areas. Additionally, he co-founded Educational Communications of Colorado Springs, comprising 15 radio stations and 28 translators. Libby also served previously on the board of the Christian Stewardship Association.
Libby says, from a Christian media standpoint, TWR is positioned to touch most of the world with the good news of Jesus. "We're beginning to work in the arenas of the global needs of youth, and children, women, HIV/AIDS and health issues, the whole orality movement, and church and leadership development. Those are really the areas of strategic opportunities as God leads us."
TWR commissions Libby on December 1.
