Cynthia Mascarenhas
Founder
Cynthia was widowed on February 4th, 2018, when she lost her husband of 29 years, Franz Mascarenhas, to a sudden heart attack. She met her husband in Bombay, India, fell in love, married and remained in love through the challenges and blessings of marriage. They successfully navigated the challenges of being newly weds and new immigrants to the USA.
Together they raised two beautiful daughters and raised them to be women who loved and feared the Lord.
Professionally, Cynthia is a Registered Nurse and Independent Legal Nurse Consultant. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Orlando Chapter of Legal Nurse Consultants. She has also served on various committees for the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
Cynthia has used her problem solving skills and heart of service to bring attention to the mostly unknown and unseen challenges faced by widows around the world. Her desire is to see the church embrace a widow as a member of the body of Christ, and reach out to help widows in the community as representative of the ‘hands and feet of Jesus’.
Board of Directors
Kim Mascarenhas
Chairman
Kimberley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Secondary Education from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. She worked as a chorus, keyboard, and music theory teacher since graduation. In addition to teaching, she began doing freelance work as an administrative assistant and project manager for marketing companies.
Megan Mascarenhas
Secretary
Megan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music and education from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and a Master’s degree in Musicology at Northwestern University. After graduate school, she spent a year in Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright grantee conducting graduate research and teaching in two Austrian schools. Megan currently teaches children and adults private piano lessons and coaches ice hockey at RDV Ice Den in Maitland, FL. After losing her dad in 2018, Megan’s heart has been to minister to widows and their families.
Krystal Perea
Treasurer
Krystal married her high school sweetheart and the two were later blessed with three sons. As a teacher, she has worked in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as now in a college teaching math. She and her husband made homeschooling their boys a priority and in turn had the wonderful privilege of doing so from kindergarten all the way to their sons’ high school graduations. Krystal has served in many ministries throughout the years, working with children, married couples, the Deaf community, youth, widows, orphans, and as treasurer for a high school booster club. As a proud military wife, she is very thankful for her family and she simply wants to serve the Lord wherever He leads her.
William Andrews
Director at Large
William Andrews is Senior Pastor of The Heart of Mercy Community Church and Executive Director of Mercy Drive Ministries. Pastor Andrews graduated from Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts with an Associate Degree in Broadcast Journalism. He was ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene in 2003 after finishing his ministerial studies at the Nazarene Bible Institute of Central Florida.
Pastor Andrews served as Senior Pastor and a member of the Board of Directors of Restore Orlando, Inc. He also served on Governor Jeb Bush Front Porch Community Neighborhood Council for Holden Heights.
William was one of the representatives for the City of Orlando on the Central Florida Regional Commission on Homelessness, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Grace Medical Home and Orlando Board for Habitat for Humanity. He is one of the founders of the Mercy Drive Corridor Initiative along with First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. Pastor Andrews continues to work to bring the various partnerships and resources to the Mercy Drive Community and its residents.
Richard Godsil
Director at Large
Richard is a Staff Missionary with Great Commission Alliance and a Pastoral Counselor and Family Coach. Working with the Great Commission Alliance Organization allows him to train, disciple, encourage, and empower youth, pastors, families, leaders, and communities worldwide.
His specialty is in coaching families and discipling pastors to be unique servant leaders for the Kingdom, by providing them with tools and the resources to strengthen their families and churches that will allow them to work within their communities on a deeper level.
In 2009, he published a small group book entitled, “Building a Strong and Loving Family” to help churches and small groups with strengthening families.
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Walk With a Widow Support Group has reached 11 countries around the globe.
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