Evaluation and Oversight

Committee

Act of the Board establishing the EOC

Ronald Lee Cobb  

Chairman    

Ronald Lee Cobb is the Director of “Hope, Help, Health“, a substance abuse and mental health recovery clinic in Holton, Kansas. He has been an ordained Christian Minister since 1969. In 2003, with the rank of Colonel in the US Army, he served as the command chaplain of the SFOR 13 US peacekeeping force based at Eagle Base, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2004, as a certified addiction therapist (CADC II National Association of Addiction Therapists) , he taught seminars on faith-based therapy to Islamic imams and medresa faculty  in Tuzla Bosnia. He has a Doctor of Ministry degree from the San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Masters of Divinity degree from Central Seminary, Kansas City, Kansas, a master's degree in Religion from the University of Kansas where he studied Slavic culture and religion, and a bachelor's degree in History from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.

 

 

 

Michael Poage

Michael Poage is the pastor of Fairmount United Church of Christ, Wichita, KS and an adjunct professor at Wichita State University and Friends University in Arts and Humanities, teaching Creative Writing, American Poetry, Comparative Literature, Minority and Urban Studies. He has five books of poems published and has given workshops and readings in several U.S. states as well as Latvia and Bosnia. He has traveled to Bosnia four times since 2000 working with Church World Service, participating in a peace conferences in Mostar and Sarajevo and working with several NGO's in Bosnia including the Tuzla-based organization BILD. He is married to Gretchen Eick, Professor of History at Friends University, and in their blended family they have six children and five grandchildren. Mike has a Master of Divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Montana, graduate study in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

Antonia M. Rosenbaum

Antonia M. Rosenbaum, until retiring in 2004, was the Associate Director of Cornell University's Local Roads Program where she managed a transportation technology transfer program with an annual budget of approximately $750,000. In 2000 she first traveled to Bosnia when her husband taught at Tuzla University's Summer Institute. In 2001-2002, she spent four months in Tuzla when her husband accepted a Fulbright Scholarship at Tuzla University. During that time, she helped Tuzla-based NGO's develop succcessful funding proposals for education and community development projects. Toni also has experience as a communication consultant, teacher, and community volunteer. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in Education from the Pennsylvania State University.

 

Muhidin Lelić

Muhidin Lelić is the New Product Development Manager at United Technologies Corporation in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA. Muhidin Lelić is originally from Tuzla with 14 years experience teaching engineering and computer science courses at Tuzla University. Muhidin has consulted BILD's education projects since 2001.

 

Eric L. Ebb

Chaplain (LTC) Eric L. Ebb was the Deputy Command Chaplain of the 15th rotation of US peacekeepers based in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 2005. During his deployment, he helped expand BILD's interfaith activities and became an avid contributor to BILD programs. He has degrees from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He is certified in Pastoral Care Ministry and Critical Incident Stress Management. He is an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.