Dec
17
John Sage, Jeff Finger, Bruce Hansen
Filed Under Events | Leave a Comment
John Sage, CEO, Pura Vida Coffee
John Sage manages the general business operations of Pura Vida Coffee from the company’s administrative office in Seattle, Washington. Prior to launching Pura Vida Coffee, John spent nine years working in various high-tech marketing positions. He served as Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development for Starwave Corporation, a leading Internet media company recently acquired by Disney and Infoseek. Prior to joining Starwave in 1994, John spent five years at Microsoft, where he ran the Microsoft Works business and later directed marketing for the company’s flagship application product, Microsoft Office. John graduated from Harvard Business School in 1989. In addition to devoting professional energies to Pura Vida Coffee, John is active in a number of philanthropic and charitable activities. He serves on the board of the Northwest AIDS Foundation, the Northwest Leadership Foundation and on the Board of Governors of Opportunity International, a micro-credit lending organization based in Chicago.
Jeff Finger, Golden Gate Community Church (’99 parish)
Jeff is the pastor of the “99″ parish of Golden Gate Gate Community Church in San Francisco.
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Jeff has a background in Mathematics and Engineering, spending several years in the aerospace industry working for both McDonnell Douglas and Rohr Industries. He has also taught high school Mathematics at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco. Becoming more and more convinced that he should respond to a sense of God’s call on his life to preach, he returned to graduate school in August of 1991. Jeff completed his Master of Divinity degree at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky in August of 1994.
Since 1997, Jeff has been a pastor at GGCC as its worship leader and pastor in residence. In July of last year, GGCC was prepared to extend its influence further into the city by commissioning Jeff as the pastor of its second parish. Jeff then left teaching in order to serve Golden Gate full time and helped develop the core of people that established the “99 Parish” on November 6. He has been serving as parish pastor ever since and still marvels at the wonder of his good fortune to be formed as a pastor by such a graced community of people.
Bruce Hansen, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ
on college and university campuses throughout the United States. In
Northern California we have ministries on 18 campuses involving 1400 Christian
students and faculty who reach out to thousands more as witnesses for
Christ. We have a legacy of equiping our alumni to be lay leaders for
the church, the marketplace, missions and their local communities. We are
known for leading students into rigorous, thoughtful Bible study that shapes
their character and their vocations.
Bruce Hansen is a member of the No. Calif. regional leadership team and
has served as IVCF campus staff for 16 years at U.C. Berkeley, SF State,
USF,and UCSF.