Our mission at Foundations for Christ is to focuses on improving the physical, emotional, and spiritual lives of the impoverished, the untrained and the incarcerated by loving like Jesus loved with trust, empathy, and thoughtfulness.
Foundations for Christ is saving lives. We have been working since 2019 to eliminate dirt floors in East Africa. Dirt floors are a significant source of child mortality due to viral, bacterial, and parasitic disease. Nearly 2 million Rwandans die each year from complications due to diarrhea alone. But, there is good news. Studies have shown that healthy floors have reduced the incidence of childhood diarrhea by as much as 49% and parasitic infections by 78% by eliminating the breeding environment for parasites in the home.
Foundations for Christ is saving souls. We host several Foundations Conferences for East African Pastors and Evangelists to help protect the integrity of God’s Word. In addition we supply Bibles to prisoners and in parts of the world where Bibles are difficult or impossible to find.
Our Managing Directors
Tim Zoltowski | President and Chief Executive Officer
Tim lives in Bossier City, LA with his wife Janie and their daughter Amy. They are both an integral part of the ministry. His passion is in Rwanda where he serves the needs of the poor overseeing the operations of Foundations For Christ, Inc.
He manages the installation of floors and home improvements through the local church for our Foundation Families and serves as an instructor for Foundations Seminary in Kigali and Base, Rwanda.
HAKIZIMANA Jean Baptiste | Director of Activities, Rwanda
Jean Baptiste lives in Kigali the capital city of Rwanda with his wife Joyeuse and three children, Wise aged 11, Shepherd 6 and their sister Gianna who is 3 years old. They all love and serve God in the church and school.
Jean Baptiste graduated from North West University (Potchefstrum Campus) in South Africa in 2006 and holds the Bachelor’s Degree in Theology. He is now a trainer of pastors both nationally and internationally after he received a higher training certificate from Dallas-Global Proclamation Academy (GPA) in 2013.
Currently, he organizes and coordinates the Base-Ministry in the North of the country since 2012. He is a musician, tutors Kinyarwanda language, volleyball player, and an artist. Beside that, he was a Bible school teacher at Rwanda Friends Theological College (RFTC) in Musanze the capital city of North Rwanda.
Our Board of Directors
Pastor Tim Zoltowski, M.Div. | Chairman
Tim is the CEO of Foundations for Christ and a missionary to Rwanda. Tim was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel in 2006 at Grace Fellowship Church in McKinney, TX and has a Master of Divinity degree from Liberty University.
He as 20 years of operations management experience. His career includes Operations management experience in global services organizations and commercial property/casualty insurance companies. He has a proven history of improving operational efficiency and delivering when it counts. He has managed the implementation and operation of the Lean Management System and the Kaizen Model.
Pastor HAKIZIMANA Jean Baptiste, B. Th. | Director of Activities, Rwanda
Jean Baptiste was recently ordained as an official Pastor the June 19th, 2022 in the Evangelical Friends Church of Rwanda known as Eglise Evangelique des Amis au Rwanda (E.E.A.R) serving at KICUKIRO Local Church.
Pastor Jean Baptiste is busy serving in pastoral trainings and facilitating in many trainings such as Peer Mediation, conflict resolution, Trauma Healing, Compassionate Listening, translation and interpretation, etc. This time he is a volunteer in the board of directors in the Foundation For Christ.
Janie Zoltowski, M. Ed. | Treasurer and Secretary
Experienced Retirement Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Management, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Strong finance professional with a Master of Education (MEd) focused in Applied Behavior Analysis from University of North Texas.
Dr. Sheryl Bushman, DO | Director
Dr. Sheryl Bushman joined Optimum Healthcare IT as its Chief Medical Information Officer in 2014. A Board Certified OB/GYN physician, Dr. Bushman transitioned to medical informatics in 2005. During her tenure in the field of medical informatics Dr. Bushman has transformed the delivery of healthcare; implementing the Epic System EHR in 18 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory practices across seven states. Her inpatient implementation experience includes Academic Medical Centers, large multi-state health systems and large and small community hospitals. Her ambulatory experience includes health system integrated (employed) physician practices as well as non-integrated (voluntary) physician practices in almost every specialty and subspecialty.
Dr. Sunil Kumar, MD | Director
Results-driven healthcare technology leader with 20 plus years of health care experience. Career path includes oversight, management and implementation of Epic EHR in academic medical centers in ambulatory, inpatient and ancillary areas. Progressive career track for successfully planning and executing complex programs and projects to serve patient needs and meet growth demands of the organization.
Focus has been on providing leadership and guidance for large-scale Epic clinical and revenue cycle implementations, optimization and standardization of clinical workflows. Excellent project management skills, written and verbal skills and ability to speak to clinical, operational and information system needs. Certified in seven Epic modules including Inpatient orders, Ambulatory, Order transmittal, Research clinical, Research billing, Reporting workbench and Radar dashboards. Six Sigma green belt. Education includes Professional Degree in Medicine & MBA in Healthcare Administration.
