Leadership
ANNA VALERIA-ISEMAN
Executive Director
ZEB HOUGH
Director of Programs
ROBERT WILLIAMS
Director of Operations
BRENDA SPRATT
Director of Development
Board of Directors
BOARD PRESIDENT
Paul Kandt
Director of Budgeting & Decision Support for Rochester General Health System
VICE PRESIDENT
Vivek Thiagarajan
Attorney at Morgenstern
DeVoesick, PLLC
SECRETARY
Chenetta Hunter-Stokes
Counselor / Rochester City School District
MEMBER AT LARGE
Nathaniel Jones, CFP, CRPC
Senior Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch
MEMBER AT LARGE
Elizabeth Reyes
Associate Director of Families In Transition, Rochester City School District
MEMBER AT LARGE
Jim Paulino
Retired Senior Deputy Attorney for Monroe County
Mission Statement
Established in 1952, The Open Door Mission is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Christian Rescue Mission founded to provide for the spiritual and physical needs of the impoverished and homeless men, women and children of Rochester, NY by restoring hope and changing lives.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We believe in . . .
1. The Holy Scriptures as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy, and the only supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
2. One God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit;
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His sin-atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His redemptive work and His personal return in power and glory;
4. The salvation of lost and sinful man through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith (apart from works) and regeneration by the Holy Spirit;
5. The Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the believer is enabled to live a holy life to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
6. The unity in the Spirit of all true believers, the church, the Body of Christ;
7. The resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of eternal separation from God.