STAFF
Stephen Reeves serves as the executive director of Fellowship Southwest, following Founder Marv Knox’s retirement in 2021. In addition to leading Fellowship Southwest, Stephen will continue to direct CBF advocacy, as he has done since 2013. Previously, he was director of public policy for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission in Austin and staff attorney for the Washington-based Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. He is a national leader in the effort to reform predatory lending practices including payday and auto title lending and has led CBF to be more active in advocacy for immigrants and refugees. He is the co-author of The Mission of Advocacy: A toolkit for congregations published by Nurturing Faith in August 2020.
Stephen serves on the boards of BJC and Passport Camps, as well as the strategic advisory board of Good Faith Media and the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Racial, Gender and Economic Justice. He is co-chair of the Center for Responsible Lending’s Faith & Credit Roundtable. He is a former board member of Christians for Environmental Stewardship and Stop Predatory Gambling.
Stephen is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Tech University School of Law. He and Deborah, who is a CBF-endorsed chaplain, have three children, Kellyn, Garrett and Landry. They live in Dripping Springs, Texas.
STEPHEN K. REEVES
Executive Director
sreeves@fellowshipsouthwest.org
Cameron Vickrey has been a part of Fellowship Southwest as a part-time communications consultant since its beginning in 2017. Before joining Fellowship Southwest full time in 2022, she provided communications support to other nonprofits like Faith Commons and Pastors for Texas Children. She is passionate about public education, and co-founded an organization called RootEd, galvanizing parents of public schools to tell their stories and become advocates.
Cameron was born and raised in Dallas, but before moving back to Texas as an adult, she attended Furman University in South Carolina where she majored in art history. She received a master of divinity degree from Wake Forest University School of Divinity in North Carolina. She and her spouse Garrett, pastor of Woodland Baptist Church, now live in San Antonio, Texas, with their three daughters and a miniature Schnauzer. She writes monthly for Alamo City Moms and is a frequent opinion writer for the San Antonio Express-News, mostly on education topics. Her free time is spent taking her kids to piano lessons, swim-team practice and horseback riding lessons, going on walks, wishing she were a gardener, and teaching Sunday school to middle schoolers. She also loves to bake pies and read lots of books, a hobby she has successfully passed down to her daughters, who have figured out that they can avoid their chores if they’re buried in a book.
Cameron mason Vickrey
Communications and Development
cameron@fellowshipsouthwest.org
Originally from El Paso, Anyra earned her undergraduate degree in biblical theological studies from Baptist University of the Américas and her master’s degree in global leadership from Dallas Baptist University. She has experience working with Baptists through positions with Buckner International, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in advocacy work, CBF of Texas and Baptist University of the Américas. She comes to Fellowship Southwest most recently from Texas Baptist Women in Ministry as their coordinator and as academic coordinator for the Christian Latina Leadership Institute.
Anyra believes that her life mission is to advocate on behalf of vulnerable communities around the world and to empower them to live out God’s purpose for their lives. As an advocate, minister and leader, Anyra has a diverse background in serving vulnerable children, families, and global communities. Along the way God has opened the doors for her to do other types of ministries that she is passionate about.
Anyra and her husband, Carlos Valencia, live in Fort Worth, Texas, with their two-year-old daughter. In addition to their full-time jobs, the couple serve at Iglesia Bautista Victoria en Cristo where Carlos is pastor. In her free time, Anyra likes to travel and ride her jet ski.
ANYRA CANO
Programs and Outreach
anyra@fellowshipsouthwest.org
Mariah Humphries is a Mvskoke Nation citizen. She is a speaker and writer on the intersections of Christianity and racialized identities. With over 25 years of vocational ministry service and a masters in theology, she is focused on using her theological education and lived experience to challenge and encourage the Church to lead the conversation around racial literacy and cultural humility.
Mariah Humphries
Native Justice Consultant
mariah@fellowshipsouthwest.org
WE’RE HIRING
Media Manager
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Lori joined Fellowship Southwest as Accounting Manager in 2020. Lori describes herself as “a follower of Jesus who finds my identity in Him who has called me to know Him and to teach others to know Him.” Lori has served churches, private schools and non-profit organizations in the area of accounting since 1992. She is currently the Director of Finance at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. Her specialty is forensic accounting and audit consultations for non-profits and churches.
She and her husband, Wayne, have served churches throughout Texas and Louisiana since 1975 as student ministers, senior pastors, worship leaders and administrators. Lori has three accomplished adult children, Casey, Meridith and Michael, 6 grandsons and 2 granddaughters, whom she describes as her greatest legacy! She has mentored and discipled women all across the country, and her desire is to advance the Kingdom of God in and through whatever task God lays before her.
Lori Gooden
Accounting Manager
lori@fellowshipsouthwest.org
Marv founded Fellowship Southwest in 2017 and served as its coordinator until he retired in 2021. He’s thankful to God for his long career in journalism, including almost 20 years as editor of the Baptist Standard in his home state of Texas. But he’s particularly grateful he ended his full-time ministry at Fellowship Southwest, a source of never-ending joy and fulfillment. Marv cherishes its practical ministry, ecumenical and interfaith relationships, and emphasis on agility and kindness. He’s particularly happy when he remembers Fellowship Southwest named the fund that supports its immigrant relief ministry in his honor.
Marv and Joanna live in Durham, N.C. Their immediate family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and five grandchildren—three girls and two boys. Since Joanna and Marv are newly retired, they’re still figuring out what they want to do in the next phase of their lives.
MARV KNOX
Founder, Retired
marv@fellowshipsouthwest.org
KEY PARTNERS
Elket Rodríguez is the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving the communities and the migrants in the U.S.-Mexico border. He encourages churches along and across the U.S. and Mexico border to engage with migrants, asylum seekers and the vulnerable in their communities. Rodriguez hosts workshops in the U.S and in Mexico to educate migrants, asylum seekers, pastors, and churches on the biblical foundations of welcoming the stranger and loving our neighbor. He also coordinates CBF’s immigration advocacy efforts and leads CBF’s Advocacy Action Team for Immigrants and Refugees. The group cultivates a network of active advocates encouraging direct policy advocacy at critical moments alongside and on behalf of immigrants and refugees.
ELKET RODRÍGUEZ
CBF Field Personnel + Leader of CBF Advocacy Action Team for Immigrants & Refugees
erodriguez@cbf.net
Jorge Zapata is the CEO/President for Hearts4Kids. Married to Rosa, has four children and nine grandchildren.
Jorge Zapata attended Hispanic Baptist Theological Seminary San Antonio, TX., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary FT. Worth, TX. and University of Missouri Liberty, MO.
He has served 37 years as pastor in various churches, planted 12 new churches and previously served 16 years at New Wine Church La Feria, TX. He worked for several other Baptist Entities.
Jorge Zapata has served as community leader in Henderson County and in several other counties along the Texas/ Mexico Border, as a community leader he developed bridges between Church & State with US Federal Government, the State of Texas, Counties and Cities. He helped to develop, Coalition to Combat Human Trafficking-Texas with several other team members. He also has helped with Central American refugees and working with the Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexican government. He helped churches and pastors to open their churches as shelters along the Mexican border and US border churches to work with US Immigration ICE Department with the asylum refugees.
Jorge is a sports fan and loves to play sports with his grandchildren, heʼs a musician, he also collects Hot Wheels Cars and knives.
JORGE ZAPATA
CEO of Hearts 4 Kids and Associate Coordinator for CBF Texas
jorgezapata81@yahoo.com