wfn.org | Dr. Cindi Love Is New Executive Director of Metropolitan Community

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January 18, 2005

Los Angeles -- Dr. Cindi Love began her  new duties as Executive Director for

the international movement of Metropolitan  Community Churches this week.

Founded in 1968, MCC is the world's largest  and oldest faith community with 
a primary, affirming ministry to gays, lesbians,  bisexuals and transgender 
persons.  The MCC movement includes more than  43,000 members and adherents
in 
23 countries around the globe.

Dr. Cindi  Love brings a wide range of leadership, management and 
organizational experience  to her new role as MCC's Executive Director. She
is the former 
Executive Dean of  Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas. She previously served

as Senior Executive  of The Toro Company, and was the founder of Ecommune, a 
provider of consulting	services for Fortune 500 companies and technology 
ventures in Israel.

She  was CEO and Founder of several corporations, including C.H. Love & Co., 

School Vision of Texas, Network in a Box, Apple Education Assistance Network,

 New Mexico Information Systems, Integration Control Systems & Services, and 

is a past faculty member of Hardin-Simmons University.

Dr. Love holds a  Bachelor of Science in Education from Abilene Christian 
University, a Master of  Arts from Louisiana Tech, and a Doctorate in
Educational 
Administration from  Texas Tech University. She is a licensed MCC 
clergyperson and educational  diagnostician.

In 1990, Cindi Love was named one of the "Top 50  Entrepreneurs" in North 
America by Inc. Magazine and the Massachusetts Institute  of Technology and
she 
has served on two advisory commissions for the Texas  Legislature.

"I'm pleased that Dr. Cindi Love has accepted the call to  serve as Executive

Director of Metropolitan Community Churches," said the	Reverend Dr. Troy D. 
Perry, Founder and Moderator of MCC. "Cindi's  organizational expertise, 
management background, and deep spiritual values will  help lead MCC into a
new 
chapter of mission and ministry."

The MCC  Executive Director is responsible for the overall administration and

management  of the organization including all programs, fundraising, and 
business  operations. Currently, MCC's headquarters budget exceeds $3 million
(US) 
and  local MCC congregations have a combined annual budget in excess of $21 
million  (US).

Love succeeds Kerry Lobel, who served as Interim Executive Director  of 
Metropolitan Community Churches during 2004.

Additional information on  Metropolitan Community Churches can be found at 
_www.MCCchurch.org_ (aoldb://mail/write/www.MCCchurch.org) .

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Photos of Dr. Cindi Love available upon  request.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON DR. LOVE:

Cindi offers an  unusual -- and, for MCC, fortuitous -- combination of 
experience in both the	nonprofit and for-profit sectors.  

Her career can be divided into	three key phases.

Entrepreneurial Phase.	In 1981, Cindi was a  recently divorced single mother

of two children.  Through sheer force of  will and innate brilliance, she 
rose from homemaker and speech therapist to be	named one of North America's
Top 
50 Entrepreneurs according to Inc.  Magazine.

Over a period of 15 years, Cindi founded eight companies.   One became an 
Inc. 500 Company (No. 73 on the list), and another grew so  prosperous it was

acquired by Toro, a Fortune 500 Company. During this  entrepreneurial phase
of 
her career, Cindi demonstrated an uncanny ability to  make something out of 
nothing -- literally to start with an idea and turn it	into a successful
working 
system. For example, Cindi founded a company called  School Vision of Texas, 
and turned it into the largest Apple Education Sales  Agency in the United 
States with $161 million in sales in 1993. In another  instance, Cindi
acquired 
three Computerland franchises which were in bankruptcy	and rolled them into
a 
profitable computer service business. This ability to  identify weaknesses in

an operating system and craft successful solutions is  something MCC 
desperately needs on the business side of its  operations.

Corporate Phase.  In 1996, Cindi sold her then leading	company, Integration 
Control Systems and Services, Inc. (a global provider of  system integration 
services and support for golf courses), to the Toro Company  and went to work

for them.  As a senior executive at Toro, Cindi  demonstrated her ability to 
work effectively as part of a team in an already  established, successful 
enterprise.  Over the next five years, Cindi led  Toro's successful effort to
create 
a world-wide Intranet service network for  over 5,000 distributors and 
dealers in 85 countries.  This period of  service gave Cindi substantial
exposure to 
the culture of Fortune 500 American  business -- and even more importantly, 
to many cultures outside the United  States. 

Nonprofit Phase.  At the end of 2001, Cindi left Toro to  found Ecommune and 
to become Executive Dean of Corporate and Continuing  Education at Brookhaven

College, which serves 31,000 credit and non-credit  students each year in 
Dallas County, Texas.  In 2002, Brookhaven was named  the 9th fastest growing

comprehensive community college in the United States.  There, Cindi manages a

multimillion dollar budget and leads the division of the  college responsible
for 
providing continuing education opportunities for adults.  Cindi's division of

Brookhaven specializes in meeting the needs of an immigrant  segment of the 
Dallas County population. Cindi's students come from more than	100 different

countries; half of them do not speak English as their primary  language.  

Cindi has gained significant additional experience with  the management 
issues of nonprofit organizations through her service on boards  and
committees at 
Goodwill Industries, the Better Business Bureau, Abilene  Chamber of
Commerce, 
and the Kenley School for Exceptional Children, Big Country  AIDS Resources, 
Abilene Community AIDS Project, Minnesota AIDS Project, OutFront  Minnesota 
and The Experience. She is a newly elected member of the Board of  the Turtle

Creek Chorale, the world famous gay men's chorus.

For More  Information, Contact:
MCC Communications Department
8704 Santa Monica  Boulevard, 2nd Floor
West Hollywood, CA  90069
Tel. 310-360-8640,  Ext. 226
Fax 310-360-8680
E-Mail: info@MCCchurch.org