Christ Church
Dr. Christophersen
Dr. Kjell Christohersen is the president of CCbenefits, Inc. based in Moscow, Idaho. He has over 28 years of long and short-term international experience as an economic analyst and modeler in Africa, Asia, the Near East, Europe, the Caribbean, and the U.S. His list of clients includes USAID, The World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, FAO, and several private clients in the U.S. (including ACCT).
For these clients, he has served as team leader on many assignments to carry out activities such as economic modeling, project appraisal, assessments, planning, design and evaluation, feasibility and recurrent cost studies, and training in economic and financial analysis. He is currently fully engaged with CCbenefits, Inc. and the economic impact modeling effort.
Christophersen’s role will be to ensure that all micro-project proposals submitted meet economic and financial feasibility criteria.
Mr. Csaba Leidenfrost
Csaba is an elder at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He has nearly 40 years of experience living in West Africa. He has lived among the Bakwé people with his family for 18 of those years learning and analyzing the Bakwé language for the purpose of translating the Bible. Csaba has a good ‘insider’ understanding of the local culture and currently makes two trips per year out to Bakwé country as he carries on the translation and literacy work.
Mr. Eric Burnett
Mr. Eric Burnett is a deacon at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He has served for 20+ years as Christ Church Accountant and has also extensive personal experience in business, having owned and run a local restaurant for many years. Eric also gives financial counseling to many people both locally and out of town.
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Pastor Gnagbé Firmain
Pastor Firmain is pastor of the local Missionary Baptist Church of Touadji II, Côte d’Ivoire. He has also been working with Csaba Leidenfrost since 1998, serving in the roles of Literacy Supervisor, and Financial Bookkeeper.
Mr. Yépi Babo Alexis
Alexis has worked as Csaba’s colleague in the translation endeavor since 1993. He is also project team leader when Csaba is not on-site. Alexis also helps preach in the local Baptist Church of Touadji II.
Mr. Klé Veyra Perez
Perez has worked with Csaba as Literacy Supervisor since 1997.