Executive Director – Tom Brewster
Tom and Rhesa Brewster have been married for 28 years. They have three children, a son-in-law and a grandson. Tom felt God’s call to full-time ministry in 2012. Tom’s passion is to do all he can to fulfill the Great Commission and join God’s mission wherever that may lead. For five and a half years, Tom led Engage Hope, a mission organization working primarily in South Asia, Africa and Mexico. In December of 2018, CHIA called Tom to become Executive Director.
Founder and Medical Director – Dr. John Sherman
Dr. John “Doc” Sherman has practiced general medicine in El Paso, TX for 52 years. He founded CHIA in 1981 along with Susie, his wife of 51 years. He and Susie have four children and seven grandchildren. He has authored three books: “The Treasure Within” “Mission Gourmet” and “So You Want to Cure Medicine” He has coordinated hundreds of short-term mission trips and mobilized thousands of people to serve the unreached and under-privileged around the world. Doc continues to be active as a general practitioner in El Paso.
Co-Founder – Susie Sherman
Susie was born in Hackensack, NJ, attended Duke University School of Nursing, Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, and Cedar Crest College in Allentown PA. After obtaining her RN & BSN, she was commissioned as a US-2 (short term missionary with the Methodist Church) to El Paso, TX to work in Newark Methodist Maternity Hospital. This is where she met Dr. Sherman, as he was one of the physicians at the hospital. They were married after she finished her two-year commitment in 1968. As a believer in the Lord Jesus, Susie is desirous of serving Him each day. Prayerfully, her role as a wife, mother, and grandmother—as well as her work in the office as a nurse and her involvement in CHIA—are a testimony to her faith.
Dental Director – Dr. Minerva Conde Soriano
Dr. Minerva, (“Minnie”) was born in Chihuahua, Chih Mexico and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2016. She is a 1990 graduate of the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua Dental School. She began using her education to serve others in 1992 through Christ for Humanity. In 1996 Minnie began serving on mission trips with CHIA. In 2007 she became an assistant doctor with Dr. Sherman. She has been married for 15 years to Eduardo Soriano and has one child, Sarah Conde Soriano. Minnie has a heart to serve the under-privileged and is a tireless worker on the mission field.
Board of Directors
John Adams – Chairman
Dr. Bob Todd – Vice President
Susie Sherman – Secretary
Dr. John Sherman – Medical Director
Bonnie Berkel – Co-Pharmacy Director
Debbie Stoner – Co-Pharmacy Director
Dr. Minerva Conde Soriano – Dental Director
Dr. Rodger Lewis – Optometric Director
Hector Almeida – Evangelism Director
Jack Berg – Pastor, Sun Valley Baptist Church
Eduardo Soriano
Dr. Robert Wiggs
A.C. Donell