Richard Stearns (World Vision)

Richard Stearns is the current president of World Vision Inc., the U.S. office of an evangelical relief organization with headquarters in Federal Way, Washington.

Biography

Stearns earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's degree in the field of business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At Cornell University, he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and thus he came to the Irving Literary Society. His professional career began in marketing at Gillette. From 1977 to 1985 he worked in various positions at Parker Brothers, which he graduated with a climax as president in 1984, when the company was taken over and only their brand name under the owner Hasbro kept. In 1985, he became vice president of Franklin Mint, and in 1987 he moved to Lenox as president of Lenox Collections. He was appointed President and CEO of Lenox, Inc. in 1985 with the supervision of three divisions, six production plants, 4000 employees and an annual turnover of $ 500 million. Stearns left the Lenox Inc. in June 1998 and became president of World Vision United States.

As president of World Vision Inc. Stearns is responsible for project implementation in the U.S., such as fundraising, advocacy ( lobbying ) and the programs of development co-operation outside the United States. World Vision United States is a Christian relief and development aid organization that is geared to helping the world to help children and their communities to achieve their full potential by poverty is eliminated at its source. Stearns, it is important to help children and families worldwide who are affected by AIDS, and made this a priority of his organization.

Under Stearns leadership experienced World Vision a growth spurt. Among other things, due to the introduction of the best practice principle and construction of a strong management team called Christianity Today, World Vision United States an increasingly important player in the global humanitarian aid.

Stearns was one of the first signatories of the 2008 Evangelical Manifesto.

Publications

He writes editorials Opposite to global poverty and AIDS for major newspapers and magazines in the United States, and was invited in broadcasts from CNN, Fox, ABS, NBC and PBS. His articles include Samaritans on the AIDS Crisis and The face of America shoulderstand meet the face of poverty.

He is also author of The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World ( about: the vacuum in our Gospel: What does God expect of us, the answer that changed my life and perhaps change the whole world? ). The book is about how a CEO struggling to obey God at any cost and to change his passionate call to all Christians the world in that they actively live their faith. By hinstellt his own life as an example, he describes the vacuum that Christians have in their understanding of the gospel.