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WRC Staff 
Heide Ford, R.N., M.A.
Director
Heide Ford was voted in as new WRC director at the WRC Advisory board on May 21, 2006. She expects to be on site to take up her duties on August 1. Ford, a nurse, is currently active in nursing and pastoral counseling Ford says her long-time passion for "empowering women to achieve the dreams God put into their hearts," was deepened through contact with Association of Adventist Women, the Women's Resource Center, and TEAM. She served as co-founder and associate editor of Women of Spirit from 1994 to 2003.
Among her dreams for the women's resource center are strengthening outreach to young women, facilitating studies of Women in ministry, and enlarging the offerings of the WRC web site, and expanding integretion into the LSU campus.
Her husband, Zell Ford, will follow later, taking care of the moving details. See web site Photo Gallery for more pictures of the WRC board meeting.
Kit Watts, M.A., M.S.L.I.S.
Special Projects Coordinator
Meet Kit: Kit Watts, Women’s Resource Center (WRC) special projects coordinator, came to La Sierra University in April of 1997 with experience as a writer, editor, pastor, teacher, and librarian, as well as 25 years of advocacy for Adventist women. She was the founding director of theWomen’s Resource Center for five years.
In the years before coming to the WRC, she had been an assistant editor of the Adventist Review where she coordinated the production of four special issues of the general church paper that focused on issues of concern to Adventist women. She had also served as a member of four General Conference commissions on the Role of Women in the Church and as historian for the Association of Adventist women.
Currently, Kit works full time as assistant to the president for communication, Southeast California Conference.
Early in her career, Kit worked for the General Conference Bureau of Public Relations and as an assistant book editor for the Review and Herald Publishing Association. In 1973, she was the first woman to join the pastoral staff of Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church, where her work included a ministry with publications. Her academic training includes an M.A. in religion from Andrews University and a M.S.L.I.S from the University of Maryland.
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