Board Members

The city of Vienna, Austria, was home to Marla as a child, where she grew up as the daughter of missionaries. She met her husband, Daniel, at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. Daniel has founded two companies, and he enjoys his work as residential designer, builder, and inventor. Marla is involved in PTO, volunteering at the local elementary school, and bookkeeping for one of their businesses. For several years, Marla taught German at Grace College, and then worked at Zimmer until Miriam was born.

After exploring many different ways of becoming parents, Miriam came into Daniel and Marla’s lives as a newborn through adoption. Miriam has taught them so much about life, priorities, and about God’s unending and patient love for his creation.

Marla feels honored to be part of the Lost Sparrows family.

Stan is married to Julie, and is the adopted father of three children from Ukraine. He is currently serving as a chaplain.

Jerry and I are closing in on 40 years of marriage. We have 4 grown children all of whom were adopted between the ages of 2 and 6. Our adoption journeys took us both across state lines and outside of the country. We are now in the midst of a long-term kinship care position raising our grandson.

After 30+ years working at Zimmer Biomet in their accounting/finance/information technology areas, I retired for one day before starting the next chapter at Warsaw Community Church where I am on staff as the Controller.

This transition has freed up time to start a small travel planning business. More importantly, this has freed up time to become involved with Lost Sparrows where I am passionate about serving in the OVC space and helping others learn more about childhood trauma.

Andrea joined the Lost Sparrows board in 2025.  She has spent her career as a professor and as a marketing professional throughout Northeast Indiana. She,  her husband Rick, along with their adopted daughter, live in Warsaw, and are active at WL Grace. When not working or in school, they enjoy swimming, traveling and family dance parties.

Brittany and her husband, Bobbie, have been married since 2006. They have two children, a son and a daughter. Since graduating college at Ball State, Brittany has been serving in ministry through graphic design and communications. She has volunteered in children’s ministry, student’s ministry, hospitality, and small group ministry at Warsaw Community Church, Big Brothers Big Sisters, LovEd at Harrison, as well as on the board of Haiti Hungry No More which helped support lunches for several Haitian schools. Orphans and vulnerable children are very near and dear to her heart. Her husband and his siblings were adopted. Brittany and Bobbie also have fostered for almost two years. They see the importance of supporting families when caring for foster and adoptive children. They have been attending Lost Sparrows support group since 2021. The Stump family has been actively involved at Warsaw Community Church since 2002. In Brittany’s free time she loves spending time with her friends and family, playing board games, reading, and painting.

I have been married to my best friend, Aaron, since 1995.  We have three children.  Our oldest son got married to his childhood friend in 2023 and is currently an officer in the Marine Corps.  Our daughter is marrying her high school sweetheart in May 2024 and is attending Grace College and majoring in Medical Imaging.  Our youngest son was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of 6 in 2011 and is currently attending trade school.  We have also hosted three exchange students over the years from Germany, China and Italy.  We consider them our kids and enjoy staying in touch.  It has been a joy to learn about so many different cultures.  We are about to experience the empty nesters life and looking forward to that time together.  Aaron owns Norris Thermal Technologies, a manufacturing business started by his father in 1965.  I am the Office Manager and a Director of Norris Thermal.  Outside of the children and the business, we enjoy hiking, kayaking, camping…basically anything outdoors.  We love to travel and have visited 47 of the 50 states, mostly as a family.  Our greatest enjoyment is spending time with our children and their spouses.  We have attended Christ’s Covenant Church in Winona Lake for 14 years.  Being an adoptive mom, I know the challenges and see the value in being a part of a community of adoptive families, which is why I am passionate about the work of Lost Sparrows.

Todd and his wife Jennifer are foster parents in the Warsaw area. Todd works for Skyline Builders.

Julie is an adoptive mom of three Ukrainian children that are now in their 20’s. She has a big heart for helping others, which she also does as a nurse practitioner professionally.

Sue and her husband Curt have 14 adopted children. She is passionate about helping vulnerable children in our community. She joined the Lost Sparrows board in the Spring of 2026.