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Reverend Tracey L. Goodner, Chairman and Founder - III Cord Foundation

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Reverend Goodner is the second of five children born to Harold & Esther Goodner, in Indianapolis Indiana, (home of the 2007 Super Bowl Champions). He is married to Christine Goodner and has two adult children, Latasha and Richmonde (Stepson) as well as one granddaughter Alleyah. He holds three degrees (with honors) in Business and Computer Information Systems, and has three years of graduate seminary training, majoring in education and missiology.

Tracey began working at the age of eleven. He held jobs throughout high school before joining the United States Army at eighteen years old. While in the military, he graduated at the top of his class in Basic Training and at the Non Commissioned Officers (NCO) Academy.

After receiving his Honorable Discharge from the military in 1980, Tracey worked in the Restaurant Industry (5yrs) as a General Manager, in the Investment Industry (3yrs) as a Financial Manager, and in the Construction Engineering Industry as a Director of Computer Information Systems and lead CADD Draftsman (5yrs). He also worked in the Trucking Industry (5yrs) as Senior Center Operations and Performance Compensation Manager, and as President of his own company (7yrs) while simultaneously teaching Business and Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor (7yrs).

As a licensed, ordained minister, Rev Goodner has served since 1992 as a Church Planter, the Director of Christian Education, and the Pastor of Evangelism and Outreach Ministries. In 2002, he and his wife Christine founded Compassion International, Inc. of Arizona, (later renamed III Cord Foundation) in response to the lack of funding for small start up non-profits, and churches outside of the large mainline denominational churches. He served as its Executive Director until 2005 and continues to serve as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and head cheerleader.

Rev Goodner is a respected businessman, professor and community leader who has devoted his time, talent, and treasures to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, preaching the gospel and inspiring others to believe that with God all things are possible. He has trained and led over thirty-five missionaries on short-term mission trips to Mexico, Barbuda and to Uganda, building homes, churches, schools, agriculture and economic empowerment projects, as well as delivering education and medical supplies. He is passionate about helping others to be self-reliant and God-reliant, and he and his wife ascribe to the personal mission of, “Aligning their lives to the will of God, and overflowing into the lives of others.”
 

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