InterVarsity Work History

1996-1999 Distribution Center

1999-present Accounts Payable for more than twenty-three years.

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for my brother Danny's needed kidney transplant

• Pray for close friends and family to know the Lord.

Howie Meloch Executive Director, Field Operations & Strategic Projects

I currently work as the Chief of Staff for Jason Thomas. This involves leading a number of Field initiatives, like expanding our use of volunteers and strengthening our campus multi-corner planting. I oversee a team who partners with many others in leading important Field operational processes, providing interim leadership across the Field, and being a linkage between the Field and other parts of the organization. One thing I love in my work is to uncover hidden potential, whether in a staff I supervise or through adopting feedback on a process. I also really enjoy partnering closely with Jason in the leadership of the Field. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring restaurants and new recipes with my family. We have a lot of fun as a family with food. I also love cycling and have been learning a lot more about Madison cycling routes and groups after the purchase of a new bike last spring.

InterVarsity Work History

1997-2007 Campus staff – Fayetteville, AR (97-02); St Louis, MO (02-07)

2007-2010 Associate Area Director – Missouri

2010-2018 Associate Regional Director – Central US Undergrad

2012-2018 Black Campus Ministry Leading Servants Team

2018-Present Executive Director of Field Operations and Special Projects, Madison, WI

Prayer Requests:

• God’s presence and guidance for my wife and three children (17, 15, 13) who each are working through some challenging situations.

• Continued awareness of God’s invitations for me and a readiness to say yes.

• The flourishing of the staff I oversee.

• God to increase the diversity and number of our volunteer staff as well as the corners we are reaching on campus.

Dakota Pippins Vice President, Eastern US Division

Dakota serves as the Field Vice President overseeing the undergraduate ministry in the East. He came to faith in Christ as a college student, in large part through God’s work at InterVarsity. He yearns to see ministry on every corner of every campus so that every student can be one degree of separation from a witnessing community through which they too might find life. He also serves on the board of the Christian humanitarian organization World Relief and is passionate about the role of the church tackling the world’s greatest problems.

He had the privilege of marrying his high school sweetheart, Jennifer Rodriguez Pippins, she’s a doctor of internal medicine and pediatrics currently serving as a divisional director at the FDA. They live in the DC area with their three children, Dakota V (the fifth), Santiago and Isabel. His favorite hobbies are strategy games, tennis, and solving math problems.

InterVarsity Work History

1996- 2003 CSM, Harvard University

2003-2007 Team Leader

2004-2007 New England BCM Coordinator in the New England Region

2007-2018 Regional Director, Mid-Atlantic in DC, Maryland, Delaware and Eastern and Central Pennsylvania

2018-2020 Senior Field Director Associate to the Field VP, East

2020-Present Field VP; Eastern US

Prayer Requests:

• For faithfulness and fruitfulness in the ministry in the East

• For continued growth in the faith of our children.

Tom Sharp National Director

Study Abroad

As Study Abroad Director, I’m on a lot of planes. For the last ten years, I have established and grown a national ministry to study abroad students. I direct a fabulous staff team that serves, equips, and inspires students who study abroad for a summer or a semester. We help students connect with IFES, work through the discipleship opportunities that come out of their cultural displacement experience in a digital small group, and if they are in Europe, take time to experience God through one of our pilgrimage experiences to historically sacred locations. We’ve also partner with justice-oriented Christian study abroad programs in the developing world, helping interested students secure approval for these programs from their secular Universities. Finally, in recent years, we have expanded our pilgrimage experiences to include opportunities for non-students: especially, IV staff, alumni, and ministry partners. During the pandemic and ensuing travel shut-down, our team proudly produced a series of audio-guided personal pilgrimage experiences called Via Divina. Several thousand people were able to be blessed with a unique kind of walking, out-doors spiritual formation with content based on our trips for students that we developed along the Camino, through Celtic Christian History in Ireland, and following the lives of Francis and Clare in Assisi, Italy. From time to time, when I’m not somewhere in Europe, Costa Rica, Ecuador or Rwanda, I might be spotted with my wife, Maureen, her mother, and my 16-year-old son in Aurora, Colorado. With my older two boys living and working on their own now, we moved from Madison, WI this past summer to help my youngest son, Xavier, pursue his lifelong passion of playing soccer at the highest professional level. Our main entertainment is watching his practices or games with Real Colorado. In the remaining margins of life, I enjoy skiing, football (the fantasy and fan-kind; I’m too old and fat to play now), walks with my wife, and sitting around a fire on a patio with a few guys and a fine whisky, talking about our dreams and disappointments, with a splash of theology, parenting or politics.