Executive Committee
Officers and Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
John Shepherd III
Harris, GA
Board Chair
(until December 31, 2028)
John Shepherd (John) serves as a shepherd to pastors with Standing Stone Ministry. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and began his career as an aeromechanical engineer in Huntsville, Alabama. At the age of 24, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ, and within a year, he sensed that God was calling him into full-time vocational ministry.
To prepare for ministry, he received his Master of Divinity from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a Doctor of Ministry in Missions Leadership from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
John has served in full-time ministry for more than three decades in a variety of ministry settings: Church Planter, Executive Pastor, Lead Pastor, Church Consultant, and Denomination Leader. Each of these settings has given him a deep understanding of the pressures and complex challenges that pastors and ministry leaders face today.
John and his wife Joy have been married for over thirty years. They live near Blairsville, Georgia, and have three grown sons and two grandchildren whom they adore.
When not spending time with his grandchildren, John loves University of Tennessee athletics, Atlanta Braves baseball, movies, and CrossFit.
David Crane
Cherryville, NC
President
(until December 31, 2026)
David Crane (David) graduated from Columbia Bible College in 1984 and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1988 with a Master of Divinity degree.
From 1986 to 1989, David and his wife, Renee, helped plant the Central Baptist Church of Henderson, North Carolina, where he served as Minister of Music, Youth, and Children. Thereafter, from 1989-1993, David served as the Senior Pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church of Kents Store, Virginia.
From 1993 to 2015, David and Renee served with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (IMB) as full-time “boots on the ground” missionaries in various leadership positions throughout East Africa. Their work in East Africa focused on church planting, mobilization, teaching, and preaching the Gospel to unreached people groups. Upon retiring from the IMB, David and Renee commenced serving with CRM. David assumed the CRM presidency in late 2019.
David and Renee have been married for forty-eight years and live in Cherryville, North Carolina. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.
Richard L. Coffman
Houston, TX
Vice President
(until December 31, 2026)
Richard L. Coffman (Richard) is a trial lawyer based in Houston, Texas. He received a B.A. in Accounting from Texas Lutheran University (19780, and both his master’s in professional accountancy (1980) and law degree (1989) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to attending law school, Richard, who also is a Certified Public Accountant, worked for two international Big 8 public accounting firms. He also taught courses in accounting as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington and University of Texas business schools.
As a trial lawyer, Richard principally represents individuals and businesses throughout the United States in complex commercial litigation, class actions, and mass actions. His litigation practice is focused in the areas of antitrust, agriculture, consumer, and other commercial disputes. He also represents individuals injured in ski accidents.
In addition to CRM, Richard has been active in several other civic and charitable organizations, having recently concluded a ten-year term on the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), first as its Treasurer, and for the last six years, as the Board Chair. Richard also was a charter member of the Westchase Rotary Club in Houston, where he served as its first Treasurer, and later, was a member of the Downtown Houston Rotary Club, where he served on the Lombardi Trophy Committee for several years.
Richard and his wife and (retired) law partner, Sonya, live in Houston, Texas, and are members of Second Baptist Church. They have been married for over 35 years and have one daughter. Richard and Sonya are long-time supporters of CRM through giving, going, and prayer.
Kenneth W. Holbert
Powell, TN
secretary
(until December 31, 2026)
Kenneth W. Holbert (Ken) is a lawyer in Knoxville, Tennessee. He received both his undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering (1964) and law degree (1966) from the University of Tennessee. Ken’s law practice is focused in the areas of corporate, construction, real estate, wills, trusts, and estates. As General Counsel of the Knoxville Community Development Corporation, Ken directed all legal activities pertaining to the evaluation, acquisition, demolition, and disposition of land for the redevelopment of downtown Knoxville, including the Summit Hill Drive/TVA Towers, East-West Mall (Centre Square/Hilton Hotel), Whittle Communications Building (U.S. Federal Courthouse), and the Lower Second Creek/1982 World’s Fair Project. In addition to CRM, Ken serves (or has served) as a director for several other nonprofit organizations engaged in local and international ministries, including C.A.U.S.E. Uganda, Get Away Days USA, Inc., Gene & Florence Monday Foundation, Tennessee Right to Life, and the Boys and Girls Club of America, where he coached basketball and baseball for thirty years. Ken and his wife, Shirley, live in Powell, Tennessee, and are members of Wallace Memorial Baptist Church. They have been married for over 55 years and have two sons and six grandchildren. Ken and Shirley are long-time supporters of CRM.
Betsy Dellinger
Cherryville, NC
Treasurer
(until December 31, 2026)
Betsy Dellinger (Betsy) graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. She is the CEO of Precise Power Service Corporation, an independent provider of critical industrial backup power systems, based in Belmont, North Carolina.
Betsy joined the CRM Board in 2020 following several years of participating in CRM short-term mission trips in East Africa. CRM’s goals and vision align with her mission mindset focused on taking the Gospel to unreached people groups with little or no access to the Bible. Betsy has also advanced her passion by creating a mission team at Venture Church, her home church, with the twin goals of extending love for the lost in western church culture and inspiring and preparing Christians to carry out the Great Commission.
Betsy has been married to her husband, Travis, since 2003. They are blessed with two sons, Jack and Ned. Jack attends the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Ned passed on to be with the Lord at age 9. Betsy and her family reside in Cherryville, North Carolina.