Staff

D. Jean Davis, Executive Director

Jean has extensive experience in corporate fiduciary management and planned giving.  Before joining the Foundation, she was a career financial planner for 20 years. She was the second employee hired at Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest.  Serving as its director of operations for 19 years, she established the policies and procedures that the Foundation follows in serving the Lutheran community in Texas.

 

In 2001, the Board of Trustees appointed her to the executive director position.  She has served the Foundation for more than 29 years and possesses invaluable experience in the planned giving field, trust management, client care giving, and the probating of estates.

 

She is a member of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives, The National Council on Planned Giving, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

 

She and her husband have two married sons and five grandchildren.  They are members of Triumphant Love Lutheran Church in Austin.


Mark Armstrong, Director of Finance

Mark joined the staff as director of finance in 1985.  He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Austin College in Sherman and an accounting degree from Concordia University Texas.

 

During his 26 years at the Foundation, he has developed a record of excellence:  26 years of clean audit opinions, develops guidelines for the accounting of trust and endowment assets, monitors Foundation investments, supervises timely beneficiary payments, and completes all IRS reporting.

 

He is married with three children and is a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Pflugerville.

David Johnson, Director of Advancement

David is the Foundation’s director for advancement.  He is a life-long Lutheran who graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches and was a television sportscaster in Austin for 12 years before joining the Foundation in 2002.

 

He is responsible for public relations, holds seminars on planned giving, is a speaker at various gatherings and meets privately with individuals or families looking to discuss charitable estate planning. He discusses the establishment of planned gifts while working in conjunction with their other advisors and helps to facilitate the documents.

 

He is married with three children and is a member of Living Water Lutheran Church in Leander.

 

Rev. John Hunsicker, Director of Development


John is a retired ELCA pastor of more than 35 years and lives in Weimar.  He is married with two children, has one grandchild, and is a member of Faith Lutheran in Weimar.

 

He is a graduate of Ursinus College and holds a master of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

 

He joined the Foundation as a director of development in 2006 and is deployed staff in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod.

 

He conducts seminars and serves as a speaker and preacher in congregations. His unique perspective brings a connection between the “person in the pew” in terms of outreach to their use of the Foundation and the services it provides.  He also consults with clients interested in estate planned giving and how they can pass their assets to their families and still make a gift to their congregation and other ministries of the church.

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