Leadership - Project Hope Recovery Center

Don Nordin

Chief Executive Officer
Michael Vecchio

Chief Operations Officer
Blake Paul

Chief Financial Officer
Jessica Vecchio

Corporate Trainer
Spencer Kilgore

Executive Director, Project Hope Arkansas
Rex Fitzgerald

Executive Director, Project Hope Florida

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April 6, 2022

Adult and Teen Challenge of the Greater South merges with Project Hope Recovery Center and Saving Grace Women’s Home

HOUSTON, Texas – Adult and Teen Challenge of the Greater South (ATCGS) is merging with Project Hope Recovery Center and Saving Grace Women’s Home (PH&SG) to create a new...
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March 21, 2022

Hope in the Valley 2022 Banquet

Join us for our Hope in the Valley 2022 banquet for our Arkansas location! Key Note Speaker: Darryl Strawberry When: October 11th, 2022 6:00-9:00 PM CDT Where: Dardanelle Community...
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November 12, 2021

The Persistence of an Addict

I was what you would refer to as “deep” in my addiction at this point. I was a few years into using heroin, right when everything was just starting...
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Don Nordin

Chief Executive Officer

Don Nordin has more than 38 years of experience as a lead pastor. He is married to Susan Ashcraft Nordin and together they have two grown children and five grandchildren. Don and Susan oversee CT Church in Houston, a multi-cultural and multi-generational congregation, which has grown to encompass six campuses under their leadership. Pastor Nordin also holds a bachelor of ministry degree. His apostolic anointing and pastor’s heart motivate his visionary leadership.

Pastor Nordin’s denominational peers have elected him to a host of leadership roles during the course of his pastoral ministry. These include various executive level positions and committee chairmanships, including the position of CEO for Project Hope and Saving Grace in 2014. Pastor Nordin is an entrepreneurial leader. Donors have committed tens of millions of dollars to kingdom projects under his care.

Pastor Nordin’s two books, “Working at God’s Altar” and “The Audacity of Prayer,” have inspired thousands. He is the founder and president of Global Ministries Network (gmnonline.org) which credentials ministers and oversees the work of member churches.

Pastor Nordin travels extensively conducting revivals, altar worker training seminars, board and staff training, teaches on effective church structures and much more!

Each year Don and Susan host Empowerment Conference at CT Church. Empowerment Conference is a top-tier preaching and resourcing event. It draws hundreds of ministers from all over the world. Empowerment Conference features some of the premier speakers in today’s Pentecostal circles.

Michael Vecchio

Chief Operations Officer

Michael Vecchio has served as the COO for Project Hope and Saving Grace since 2017, and has been in full-time ministry since 2013. Michael previously served as the Executive Director for Project Hope, as well as the Marketing Director for Project Hope and Saving Grace. He graduated from the program of Long Island Adult & Teen Challenge, New York, in January 2013 and endeavors to see men and women experience the same freedom from addiction that he has. Michael serves together in ministry with his wife, Jessica, and they currently reside in Houston, TX.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”

Blake Paul

Chief Financial Officer

Blake has been in ministry for over 30 years and is a teacher of the Word and a gifted administrator. He has served on staff at churches in Arkansas and Texas in almost every role except Lead Pastor.

Blake currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer for CT Nation in Houston Texas. Blake is a graduate of Henderson State University in Arkadelphia Arkansas and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in management and a minor in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in secondary business education.

In June 2003, Blake and his wife, Susan, started LBP Management LLC. A consulting firm that specializes in nonprofits. As it expanded in 2019 the name was changed to Paul Consulting Solutions, LLC. Blake and Susan’s bonus daughter joined the business in 2019 also and now works full time helping our clients. The emphasis of the business is to come along side Pastors and ministries in the areas of finance, bookkeeping, management, administration, ministry development, event planning, and volunteer assimilation. We currently serve many clients in roles from Outsourced CFO to recruiting and placing volunteers. Blake and Susan love the opportunity to partner with ministries and help lead them to become excellent.

They have had a friendship with Jay McSwain, the founder and author of PLACE Ministries, for over 15 years and the opportunity to teach the PLACE curriculum in churches, district offices, events, and most recently in prison. In the first year of teaching PLACE at Christian Temple, Susan and her team placed 164 new volunteers in ministry. PLACE is a game changer if you need more volunteers involved in ministry. Blake and Susan are also certified facilitators with Marriage on The Rock by Jimmy Evans and XO Ministries.

Blake and Susan live in Pearland Texas. They have two sons, Caleb and Joshua. Caleb is married to Randi Lynn and they have 3 sons and live in Pearland Texas. Joshua is married to Hunter Raine and they have one son and one daughter and live in Plano Texas.

Jessica Vecchio

Corporate Trainer

Jessica Vecchio currently serves as the Corporate Trainer for Project Hope and Saving Grace Women’s Home. She has previously held the positions of Corporate Marketing Director, and Executive Director. In 2020 Jessica helped to pioneer Saving Grace Women’s Home in Baker, FL, before making the move back to Houston, TX. Jessica has a passion for those that are lost, as she has also experienced freedom from a decades long addiction to drugs and alcohol. She works alongside her husband, Michael, and desires to train up the next generation of leaders in recovery ministry. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her dogs; Lola and Allie, and her cat’s; Amelia, Autumn, Maisy and Baby G.

Spencer Kilgore

Executive Director, Project Hope Arkansas

Spencer Kilgore is the Executive Director of Project Hope Arkansas in Russellville, Arkansas. He has been in full-time ministry since 2011, serving with parachurch organizations like Adult & Teen Challenge in San Jose, CA and Youngstown, OH. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a bachelor’s degree in leadership & ministry from Grace Christian University. Spencer lives in Russellville with his two kids. When he is not working, he enjoys reading, physical fitness, hiking, and the outdoors. His life verse is Romans 8:38-39: “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”

Rex Fitzgerald

Executive Director, Project Hope Florida

Rex Fitzgerald serves as the Executive Director for Project Hope Recovery Center Florida. He has been with the ministry since August of 2017. Rex is currently in his third year of ministry training with the West Florida Ministry Network School of Ministry. Rex resides in Crestview with his wife Brooke and son Adam. Rex is an active member of Broken Chains JC which is a group of motorcycle enthusiasts that have found freedom in Jesus Christ. He enjoys spending his spare time riding his motorcycle and spending time with his family. His life verse is Psalms 23 1-3 “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.”

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