Board of Directors
Larry Dupper
President
Valley View Hospital (Retired)
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Larry Dupper has been the Chief Financial Officer for Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado since 1998. Previous positions in Mr. Dupper’s healthcare career include CEO, CFO, and Corporate Regional Finance Director primarily in Colorado and Missouri. Mr. Dupper has been in healthcare administration since 1975. Mr. Dupper and his wife Pam are the parents of four children. The family enjoys skiing, backpacking, kayaking, Jeeping, and most recently snowmobiling in Colorado and Utah. A native of Colorado, Mr. Dupper has also been a board member of various business, community and religious organizations. Mr. Dupper is currently the President, Board of Directors of the Western Healthcare Alliance, and Chairman of the Board of The Colorado Network (both healthcare non-profit organizations).
Kina Mallard
Vice President
Executive Director, North American Association of Methodist Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Founder and President, Leading Higher Ed
Ooltewah, TN
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Kina Mallard is the Executive Director of the North American Association of Methodist Schools, Colleges, and Universities and Founder and President of Leading Higher Ed, a leadership development company focusing on developing strong leaders who lead strong institutions. As a dynamic speaker, engaging workshop facilitator, skilled coach and consultant, Dr. Mallard has developed and led national workshops on various aspects of leadership, launched faculty, leadership, and women’s leadership development programs, and has coached leaders at all levels. Her leadership career has spanned over 30 years at five institutions, most recently serving as President of Reinhardt University, a Methodistaffiliated university in Georgia. Kina is a certified facilitator in DISC, Leadership Effectiveness, and Motivators and Values as well as an experienced workshop facilitator in Building Effective Teams and Emotional Intelligence. She coaches Presidents, CEOs, and Vice Presidents leveraging their strengths to create effective and dynamic leadership, and engaged, future-focused teams. Dr. Mallard earned a Bachelor of Arts from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. Kina is energized by serving on various boards and traveling internationally. She is married to Steve Dietz, VP for Business Development at Food Donation Connection. Kina and Steve are blessed to work from home where they have more time to enjoy their five children and nine grandchildren and serve their two dogs, Bentley and Barney. They are members of Ooltewah Methodist Church in Ooltewah, TN.
Larry Dearing
Treasurer
President, DASCO Inc. (Retired)
Monument, CO
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Larry and Bonny Dearing in the same Rochester, MN, church with the McBurneys, were privileged to pray with them in 1971 about the idea God was placing in their hearts for a clergycare retreat “somewhere sometime.” Today they live in Monument, CO, where he is president/owner of the Dearing Agri-Sales Co., a broker and distributor of fertilizer raw materials in the Western U.S. and Mexico. He is a consultant for agricultural retailers throughout the United States, an elder in the Fellowship Bible Church in Colorado Springs, Treasurer of the Marble Retreat Board, and still makes time for biking with Bonny, skiing with their three married children/spouses and five grandchildren–and has the distinction of having climbed 23 of Colorado’s “14-ers” (14,000 peaks).
Mark McDowell
Secretary
Colorado
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Mark McDowell was born in Mooreland, Oklahoma, son of Warren & Gladys McDowell (both deceased). After seminary, he served as a pastor in Louisiana, Oregon and Colorado from 1970 to 1987. In 1987, he began working for the United States Chamber of Commerce, rising through the sales ranks to Vice-President of Sales. Taking early retirement at age 55, he then became a Regional Sales Manager for National Write Your Congressman, a nonpartisan legislative research organization in Dallas. Retiring again at age 70, he has been serving on several boards and also works with his wife Pat at Chick-Fil-A part-time. His educational background includes a Master of Theology seminary degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana College in education. Mark has been married to Pat for 31 years and their combined family includes Kimberly, Reid, Ryan, Chris and spouses who’ve brought 9 amazing grandchildren into the family. Mark & Pat have made Colorado their home as a couple since 1991.
Bert Pope
Board Member
Houston Astros VP (Retired)
Temple, TX
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Bert Pope followed his father and grandfather for a career in the construction industry. He retired in 2003 from the Houston Astros Baseball Club where he served as the Astros’ Project Manager for the construction of Minute Maid Park. Bert and his wife, Marcia, met while students at Texas Tech. They live in Temple, Texas, where they are active members of First Baptist Church and are involved in community activities. They know the pleasure of having three grown sons and making a difference in the lives of eight grandchildren. Bert enjoys an occasional fishing trip to the Texas Gulf Coast, traveling, birding and spending time on their ranch near Graham, Texas. Bert presently serves as President of the Marble Retreat Board of Directors.
Trey Morris
Vice President / Senior Consultant
North Texas
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Trey Morris is the Vice President / Senior Consultant for The Center for Sales Strategy. He is known as a leader, a creative storyteller, and for delivering hefty sales results. He has spent 25+ years in the world of broadcasting and advertising by holding every significant role in the sales funnel. He’s sold advertising, managed radio station sales teams, ran his own full-service advertising agency, been a Chief Marketing Officer, and started a successful restaurant chain. Born and raised in Dallas, he spent the first 10 years managing radio stations in Dallas and Chicago, where sold and managed secular and Christian Radio Stations. While in Chicago, he branched out and ran a full-service advertising agency that specialized in developers and home specialty retailers. In 2008, he launched Q BBQ, a Michelin award-winning barbecue restaurant with 4 locations in the Chicago area. In 2013, he left the business world for the ministry world. He joined the ministry of Pastor James MacDonald’s Walk in the Word. As Executive Producer, Trey oversaw his radio ministry and created the NRB award-winning Walk in the Word Television program that aired on TBN, Daystar, and Hope Channel in Canada. In 2015, Trey felt the calling of Texas and moved the family back to North Texas. Trey has been married for 40 years to Rebecca, his Baylor sweetheart, and father to Haley and Jordan.
Chaplain (Colonel) Jon R. Stovall (Ret.)
Board Member
Chaplain Endorser for Military Services & Veterans’ Affairs
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Jon grew up as a young cowboy in the Black Hills of South Dakota. There he enjoyed ranch life, including hunting, fishing, haying, horseback riding and roping. As a youth he joined FFA where he learned to weld and work on small engines. He also joined 4-H where he enjoyed showing horses and cattle at stock shows, as well as team roping at rodeo competitions. With a passion for the great outdoors and flying, he would later receive his pilot’s license to fly small aircraft.
After completing high school and college, he married the love of his life, Peggoty Autry of North Carolina. As a registered nurse, she provided for the family as Jon attended and graduated from two seminaries, North American in South Dakota and Southeastern in North Carolina. Upon graduation they both took a short-term missionary assignment to the Netherland Antilles.
Soon thereafter, Jon received a call to serve in the United States Air Force as a chaplain. After several stateside assignments, two tours to Germany, staff member at the USAF Chaplain School, Assignment officer assigning chaplains to their duty station across the world, a post-graduate school assignment at Catholic University of America studying Spiritual Direction, and several deployments serving Airmen during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Jon retired from the military after nearly 28 years of service.
Shortly after retiring from the military, Jon was called and blessed to serve as pastor of the historic Mable Community Church in the great state of Colorado. Here he served for approximately 12 years and in 2023 retired from pastoring. Fortunately during this same time period Jon was introduced to Marble Retreat and now serves as a Board member.
Jon and Peggoty presently live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where Jon serves as a Chaplain Endorser for the Military Services and Veterans’ Affairs…ensuring the military and VA receive top notch chaplains to serve our nation’s finest men and women…our veterans.
Jon and Peggoty have two wonderful grown children, a daughter Rylie, and a son Joshua and a wonderful daughter-in-law, Laura.
Tim Haugen
Board Member
Lead Pastor, Grace Church
Gladstone, MI
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Tim Haugen joined the board of directors of Marble Retreat in March of 2021. Tim is married to his wife, Ann. They have three adult daughters who are each married, and the LORD has given to Tim and Ann nine grandchildren. Over four decades of pastoral ministry, Pastor Tim has served as a youth pastor, a teaching pastor, a lead pastor, and in more recent years has served churches as an intentional interim pastor. Pastor Tim desires to see multiplication in ministry. Investment in Christian leaders can be a strategic component of gospel advance and Kingdom multiplication. It was through a broken world experience in their own lives over two decades ago that Tim and Ann became more aware of the humbling restorative grace of the LORD. It transformed their marriage and their ministry. That is why Tim and Ann are invested in the ongoing ministry of Marble Retreat. When limping Christian leaders can be restored and rejuvenated, they can return to their ministries with greater capacity for meaningful investment in the lives of those they serve. By God’s grace, this can result in gospel advance and Kingdom multiplication. Tim is a graduate of Bethel University in Arden Hills, MN, and Denver Seminary in Denver, CO. He did doctoral work at Gordon- Conwell Seminary in South Hamilton, MA. Tim and Ann consider it a great privilege to be partners in the work of Marble Retreat.
Bob Kulick
Board Member
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Bob likes to refer to himself as “a retired pizza delivery guy who is now just a board guy in training to be an astronaut.” That’s really just a short way of saying he was partner and president in CiCi’s Pizza and JMC Restaurant Distribution. CiCi’s grew to over 600 pizza buffet restaurants in 36 states and JMC had 3 distribution centers and nearly 100 18-wheelers to deliver all the products for the restaurant operations when he retired in 2012 after selling the company to a private equity company.
After retirement, Bob was asked to join 3 ministry boards: Wingmen Ministries was started by former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Chad Hennings as a ministry to provide accountability, affirmation and acceptance in a Christian setting to men. The Center for Church Renewal is a multifaceted ministry started by pastor, writer and counselor Dr. Gene Getz. Currently, one of the main focuses of this ministry is translating his Life Essentials Study Bible into numerous languages to be distributed around the world. Bob also served as Chairman of Lifeline Global Ministries until 2022 bringing the Malachi Dads program to incarcerated men and the Hanna’s Gift program to incarcerated women around the world. These programs taught Christian principles and reconnected incarcerated parents with their children to break the cycle of generational incarceration.
Prior to his retirement, he had served on the board of Happy Hill Farm and Academy, a Christian home and school for at-risk youth.
Bob and his wife Donna have 5 children and 5 grandchildren between them. They enjoy travel (especially adventure travel), motorcycle riding, and a variety of outdoor experiences. They split their time between the Dallas, Texas area and Marble, CO.
Bob’s adventure travel has included paddling a canoe from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico as a crew member in LaSalle: Expedition II, an authentic reenactment of LaSalle’s 1681-82 expedition, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (during which he raised over $28,000 for Happy Hill), diving with sharks, racing a motorcycle on the Baja 500 course, hiking Patagonia and kayaking across Lake Titicaca among others. His ultimate adventure travel will hopefully take place soon as Future Astronaut number 176 with Virgin Galactic.
Brent McBurney
Board Member
President/Owner McBurney Global Consulting, LLC
Alexandria, VA
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Andrea Meador
Life-time Intercessor / Historian
Teacher & Volunteer (Retired)
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
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Andrea Meador grew up with Marble Retreat. She is the daughter of Marble Retreat’s founders, Dr. Louis & Melissa McBurney. She lived in the Roaring Fork Valley until she graduated from High School, where she played sports, acted in plays, skied, and went to church in Redstone. Andrea attended Baylor University for 2 ½ years. After working as a nanny in St. Thomas for 6 months she transferred to the University of Texas, Arlington and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture. She stayed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where she met and married her husband. Andrea continues to fill her time by substitute teaching, volunteering at her childrens’ former school, and working for her old architecture firm on an as-needed basis. With their son and daughter away at college Andrea and her husband are empty-nesters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Our story
about Marble Retreat: a Pastor Retreat in Colorado
Marble Retreat was born out of the conviction that clergy and others in Christian service, have extreme job demands which can frequently result in symptoms of depression, anxiety, frustration, discouragement and burnout. Worse still and because of their position, they find it difficult to seek help.
These factors, and God’s call, led Mayo Clinic-trained psychiatrist Louis McBurney, M.D. and his wife, Melissa, to begin the ministry of Marble Retreat in 1974, over 40 years ago. Marble Retreat has now served the Christian counseling needs of more than 5,000 Church leaders who have come from every state and more than 60 countries. Learn more about us here.
National Board of Reference
Stephen Arterburn
New Life
Dave Carder
Therapist and Author
Tim Clinton, Ed.D.
AACC President
Drs. Fred & Heather Gingrich
Toccoa Falls College
Norm Wright, M.A. (1937–2023)
Therapist and Author
June Hunt, M.A.
Hope for the Heart
Debbie Laaser
Faithful and True
Rev. H. B. London, Jr. (1936-2018)
Pastor to Pastors Emeritus
Focus on the Family
Gary J. Oliver, Th.M., Ph.D.
The Center for Healthy Relationships
John Brown University
Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
Founders, Center for Healthy Relationships on the campus of Olivet University
Gordon & Gail MacDonald
Authors and Speakers
Joe McIlhaney, M.D.
Medical Institute for Sexual Health
Drayton McLane, Jr.
McLane Group
Jane Meyer (1940-2021)
Paul and Jane Meyer Family Foundation
Marshall Shelley, D.D.
Denver Seminary
Dennis Swanberg, D.Min.
Speaker and Author
Archibald D. Hart, Ph.D. (1932-2021)
Fuller Theological Seminary