Tim Voorhees, JD, MBA
Certified Christian Conciliator™
Tim enjoys developing his peacemaking ministry with support from a variety of churches, parachurch organizations, and businesses. Through all of his professional and personal activities, Tim seeks to promote commitment to the Peacemakers Pledge... Biography for Tim Voorhees
Tim Voorhees, JD, MBA, is a tax lawyer and investment adviser based in Irvine, California. He is the president of Voorhees Family Office Services and the managing partner of the Copenbarger & Voorhees LLP, a tax law firm. Tim has led teams that have developed hundreds of Family Wealth Blueprints® to help high net worth clients minimize taxes and redirect tax savings to their families and favorite charities. In addition to providing services as a Wealth Counselor, Tim serves clients as a Charter Member of Kingdom Advisors and as a Certified Christian Conciliator™.
Services Offered by Tim Voorhees
When working outside of his church, Tim Voorhees generally only mediates conflicts involving the transfer of control, management, or ownership of business, real estate or investment interests to partners or heirs. For other types of conflicts, he refers people to Ed Russey, Harold Coleman, or Matt Argue, all of whom are in the Peacemaker Ministries certification program. Harold’s email address is hcoleman@roadrunner.com. Ed's number is (949)770-7004 and his email address is russeymediation@yahoo.com. Matt's number is 951-704-5556 and his email address is onemediatorargue@aol.com.
Tim is also available provide teaching at churches, law firms, counseling offices, and law schools that want to development Christian mediation programs. For more information, please contact tim@vfos.com.
Contact Tim Voorhees
Tim is also available provide teaching at churches, law firms, counseling offices, and law schools that want to development Christian mediation programs. For more information, please contact tim@vfos.com.
William P. Bennett
Certified Christian Conciliator™
The purpose of TheChurchCounsel.com is to allow the church or organization to engage a highly skilled advisor working with the church or organization in dealing with intra-church disputes, denominational issues, human resource matters, administrative issues, and other matters of concern for the church or organization.For the last ten years, Dr. William P. Bennett, the President of TheChurchCounsel.com, has served as General Counsel or Legal Counsel to a number of significant church, para-church and other Christian non-profit organizations, including Campus Crusade for Christ, the Crystal Cathedral, Churches Uniting in Global Mission (CUGM), Simon Greenleaf/Trinity University and the Reformed Church in America - Classis of California.
In Dispute Resolution, Dr. Bennett has had 25 years of training and service to the American Arbitration Association, the Los Angeles County Superior Courts, the Christian Arbitration and Mediation Association, and currently, with the Peacemakers Ministry/Institute for Christian Conciliation.
Dr. Bennett has the appropriate academic credentials for his consulting position, holding both Juris Doctorate and Doctor of Ministry degrees.
Available to assist you and your organization in any legal, non-profit, administrative, contractual issue or any Church Conflict or Dispute Resolution matter, call Dr. Bennett at (714) 658-2519 to discuss your needs and to set up a time for him to meet with you. Or, send an email to Info@TheChurchCounsel.com.
As a consultant/mediator to the church or organization, Dr. Bennett is paid on an hourly fee. Biography
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Matthew W. Argue
Certified Christian Conciliator™ candidate
After practicing as a trial lawyer involved in hundreds of mediations in Southern California for 15 years, Matthew W. Argue began his mediation and arbitration practice in 2004. During 2004, he was a mediation extern for a distinguished Federal District Court Judge J. Lawrence Irving (Ret.). He earned his Mediator’s Credential at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. He has participated in continuing education courses, including “Managing Conflict and Change in the Church” at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law School.Mr. Argue participates in the Institute for Christian Conciliation’s (ICC) certification program through Peacemaker Ministries in Billings, Montana. Mr. Argue has completed the following Certification courses: Personal Peacemaking Self- Study (Level 1); Peacemaking Church Self-Study (Level 2); Peacemaker Ministries’ Training Program on Conflict Coaching (Level 3); Peacemaker Ministries’ Training Program on Biblical Mediation (Level 4); Peacemaker Ministries’ Reconciling Marital Conflict Training (Level 5); and Advanced Certification Training in Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation. Curriculum Vitae
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Darrell Passwater
Certified Christian Conciliator™ candidate
For three decades Darrell has been a business professor and or dean and presently is a business professor at Biola University, teaching leadership and management courses to both undergraduates and graduate business students. For many years he has taught Peacemaker principles in his Conflict Management course and has been actively engaged in numerous personal and business mediation disputes cases. In addition, he is a Chair for Convene, a Christian CEO leadership organization where he leads two groups. Each month he meets with and guides roughly 30 Christian business owners with the goal to assist them to successfully navigate through a challenging business climate. He loves the Lord with all his heart, soul, strength and mind and has is married to Marilyn (37 years) and they have two adult children who, likewise are committed Christians. He is a candidate in process with Peacemakers to become a Certified Christian Conciliator. BiographyServices
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Daniel Johnson
Trained Mediators
Mr. Johnson has twenty-five years of experience as a Fortune 100 executive and consultant dealing with domestic/international sales management, operations, mergers/acquisitions, negotiations and mediations. His expertise includes contracts, business and governmental policies/affairs and cultural issues. He has facilitated the development, evaluation and execution of sustainable business plans, strategies and relationships in a diverse range of business contexts, and cultures; from startups to large corporations and from domestic to international issues.He also served as Executive Pastor at a large church for the past several years. During his tenure as a full-time pastor he facilitated over 100 family related mediations. He has a passion to resolve conflict resolutions with marriages, parental and faith based issues.
His broad and diverse experience has provided him with a unique set of communication, mediation and relationship-building skills that are critical to settling conflicts in civil and family law mediations.
Mediation and Negotiation Training: Pepperdine Law School, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Biography
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Contact Daniel Johnson:
danjohnson39@hotmail.com
949-374-2600
Harold Coleman JR. ESQ.
Mediator
Harold Coleman, Jr. is principal of Harold Coleman Jr. Ltd. (2004 to date), a San Diego-based conflict-management firm that delivers solution-focused and value-driven professional alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in the areas of real estate, construction, commercial, consumer, business and employment law, with a practice focus in complex technical disputes and pre-dispute avoidance... Biography for Harold Coleman
Harold Coleman, Jr. is principal of Harold Coleman Jr. Ltd. (2004 to date), a San Diego-based conflict-management firm that delivers solution-focused and value-driven professional alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in the areas of real estate, construction, commercial, consumer, business and employment law, with a practice focus in complex technical disputes and pre-dispute avoidance. In recent years Coleman’s ADR practice has expanded to the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
Coleman is an ADR panelist with the Superior Court of California's Civil Mediation Program, the San Diego Association of Realtors' Real Estate Mediation Center, the San Diego County Bar Association's attorney/client fee arbitration and mediation committees, and the American Arbitration Association’s Large & Complex Case (LCC) panel for commercial and construction disputes. He is a licensed attorney, licensed real estate broker, and credentialed mediator, arbitrator and educator who since 1987 has served the international business and legal communities in resolving complex litigated and non-litigated disputes through innovative ADR applications of interest-based negotiation, facilitation, mediation, independent fact-finding, early neutral evaluation, and binding arbitration. He is a former civil-litigation attorney (McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees, Sharkey & McIntyre, 1990-97; Gaglione, Coleman & Greene, LLP, 1997-2004) with expertise in complex technical litigation. He is a professional trainer who routinely trains corporate management teams in ADR, communication, conflict management, claims prevention, strategic planning, and critical thinking/problem solving, among other enterprise risk-management themes. His corporate clientele includes The Boeing Company, the global aerospace leader.
A former project design engineer and multi-disciplinary project manager (County of San Diego, Office of Architecture & Engineering, 1980-90; Arizona Department of Transportation, 1975-80), Coleman's ADR expertise has actively facilitated the resolution of several hundred mediated and arbitrated complex disputes, with an aggregate case disposition value well exceeding 500-million dollars. Among other honors and awards, Coleman has been recognized by the State Bar of California in 2000 with its "Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession" citation. Most recently, Coleman was inducted in 2009 as a Fellow of the prestigious national College of Commercial Arbitrators, comprised of the most esteemed neutrals in the industry. In 2007, he obtained advanced mediation training in transformative mediation techniques by completing courses in “Conflict Coaching” and “Mediation” through Montana- based Peacemaker Ministries, thus enabling him to address the more complicated interpersonal conflicts in a biblically faithful and God-glorifying manner.
Contact Harold ColemanColeman is an ADR panelist with the Superior Court of California's Civil Mediation Program, the San Diego Association of Realtors' Real Estate Mediation Center, the San Diego County Bar Association's attorney/client fee arbitration and mediation committees, and the American Arbitration Association’s Large & Complex Case (LCC) panel for commercial and construction disputes. He is a licensed attorney, licensed real estate broker, and credentialed mediator, arbitrator and educator who since 1987 has served the international business and legal communities in resolving complex litigated and non-litigated disputes through innovative ADR applications of interest-based negotiation, facilitation, mediation, independent fact-finding, early neutral evaluation, and binding arbitration. He is a former civil-litigation attorney (McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees, Sharkey & McIntyre, 1990-97; Gaglione, Coleman & Greene, LLP, 1997-2004) with expertise in complex technical litigation. He is a professional trainer who routinely trains corporate management teams in ADR, communication, conflict management, claims prevention, strategic planning, and critical thinking/problem solving, among other enterprise risk-management themes. His corporate clientele includes The Boeing Company, the global aerospace leader.
A former project design engineer and multi-disciplinary project manager (County of San Diego, Office of Architecture & Engineering, 1980-90; Arizona Department of Transportation, 1975-80), Coleman's ADR expertise has actively facilitated the resolution of several hundred mediated and arbitrated complex disputes, with an aggregate case disposition value well exceeding 500-million dollars. Among other honors and awards, Coleman has been recognized by the State Bar of California in 2000 with its "Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession" citation. Most recently, Coleman was inducted in 2009 as a Fellow of the prestigious national College of Commercial Arbitrators, comprised of the most esteemed neutrals in the industry. In 2007, he obtained advanced mediation training in transformative mediation techniques by completing courses in “Conflict Coaching” and “Mediation” through Montana- based Peacemaker Ministries, thus enabling him to address the more complicated interpersonal conflicts in a biblically faithful and God-glorifying manner.
Hcoleman@roadrunner.com
619.794.6001
Steve Stafford
Trained Mediators
Thirty-five years of experience as a CPA, consultant, advisor dealing with business transactions, acquisitions and sales of business ownership, development of new markets, employee stock incentive plans, closely held business and family dispute resolutions. In addition In addition to his business experience, he served as Associate Pastor of a church with approximately 2500 members for over 10 years, during which time he assisted in numerous mediations involving a full spectrum of issues including marital, family and business conflicts. Steve Stafford brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience to the alternative dispute resolution process.As a non-attorney who has been involved in arbitrations, mediations, negotiations, and settlement conferences as a mediator, consultant or advisor over the past thirty-five years he offers exceptional analytical skills relating to business, economics and relationship matters.
Mediation and Negotiation Training: Pepperdine Law School, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation
Business School: University of Southern California Biography
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Contact Steve Stafford:
steveastafford@cox.net
949-370-3942 949-370-3942
