Cecil W. Fike President, Director Cecil W. Fike has B.A. degree in Sociology from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA, a Master of Divinity degree from Bethany Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL., and has done post-graduate work at Wake Forest University/Bowman Grey School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He served pastorates in Church of the Brethren congregations in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, and served as a correctional chaplain in Roanoke, VA where he was chaplain for several detention and nursing facilities. In 1973 he moved to Marietta, GA where he established the Department of Pastoral Care for the Kennestone Hospital and WellStar Health Care System, which he directed for 28 years. He established the system's first Employee Assistance Program and founded the WellStar Hospice, the first Medicare approved hospice in the state of Georgia. Before his retirement in 2000, he oversaw the construction of the Tranquility Inpatient Hospice that provides residential care for dying patients in a home-like environment. His civic activities include the Rotary Club of Marietta Metro where he served as president in 1989 and is a Paul Harris Fellow. He first became aware of the needs of Georgia in 1990 when he and his wife traveled with the Friendship Force's second cultural exchange to the republic of Georgia. His interest was rekindled in 2003 when he returned to Tbilisi and Kutaisi, Georgia on his first of four mission teams with Volunteers in Mission of the United Methodist Church. These mission trips led to his founding of Georgia to Georgia in 2006. Cecil and his wife Joyce live in Marietta, Georgia (USA) and have one grown son and one grandson. They are members of the Marietta First United Methodist Church.

Charles M. Lampman Secretary/Treasurer, Director Charles M. "Chuck" Lampman has a degree in Industrial Economics from Purdue University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. His first 21 adult years were spent as a US Navy Supply Corps Officer with a career emphasis on financial management. For 21 additional years, until his retirement in 2004, he was Vice President and General Manager of The University Financing Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, a non-profit 501(c)(3) formed to lease equipment and facilities to colleges and universities at less than market rates. During this time he orchestrated and participated as the borrower or owner in constructing eleven tax-exempt debt financed projects for the benefit of various universities, totaling over $450 million. He first became interested in the plight of the country of Georgia when he visited Tbilisi with the Friendship Force on it's second exchange visit in 1990, living with a Georgian family for two weeks during the political turmoil immediately preceding the break-up of the Soviet Union. He is a founding Director of Georgia to Georgia, Inc. Chuck and his wife Cindy live in Kennesaw, Georgia (USA), and have two grown daughters and three grandchildren.

Kutaisi volunteer- Sophie Janelidze Sophie has served as a translator for mission teams for several years, and was present when the first teams went to the Etseri orphanage. She serves without pay and maintains frequent contact with each student, as circumstances require. Younger students get weekly calls or visits. She follows up with each student to check on grades, keeps after them to write occasional notes to their sponsors, and translates student notes and grade reports to sponsors into English for us. She has controlled Ga2Ge funds on deposit in Georgia, and delivers the students' stipends each month, while checking on their welfare. A graduate of the University of Kutaisi, Sophie married two years ago and is a new mother, so her volunteer duties have had to be diminished somewhat. She is a school teacher, but mainly coaches private pupils in preparations for the university entrance examinations. She and her husband Gaga, and new daughter live in Kutaisi.

Kutaisi volunteer- Polina Lukina Polly has been with us as a translator since the first visits by church groups to Kutaisi. She learned her proficiency in English, which includes idiomatic slang, during a high school year spent as an exchange student in Texas. Polly is assistant to the Director of the new state-of-the-art hospital complex recently completed in Kutaisi, and spends much of her working time translating for foreign visitors to the hospital. She works an incredible schedule that leaves her little free time, but what spare time she has is spent helping Sophie with document translations, and checking on the students.