CMS-USA Directors
Board Members
Geoff Little, President
The Rev. Geoff Little is a converted Christian with over twenty years’ experience in full-time ministry. Fluent in Spanish and English, he served as a lay missionary in southern Peru with the South American Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church. He holds theological degrees from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and Fuller Theological Seminary. Ordained in the Diocese of Connecticut in 1992, he has served as pastor of St. James’ Church in New Haven, Connecticut since 1994. His passion in ministry is preaching, teaching and leading worship. He is the president and founder of the U.S. branch of the Church Mission Society — CMS-USA — an Anglican evangelical mission agency focused on the development of intercultural Christian communities at home and abroad. He is also on the board of the Fair Haven Parents’ Ministry, a Christian social service agency assisting the poor in the neighborhood where he lives with his wife Blanca Saborit Little, director of the St. James’ Christian Academy.
Robert Werner, Treasurer
Bob Werner is an international business executive who has spent more than 30 years developing and managing businesses around the globe with an emphasis on developing economies. He spent many years with Timex, the watch company, in the Far East and South Asia including serving as Chairman of Timex’ publicly-traded joint venture in India. He is currently spending most of his time in India as Chief Information Officer of one of India’s leading law firms and advisor to its Managing Partner. Bob was a member of the Board of Advisors at the University of Connecticut School of Business and is Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University. He lives in Hamden, CT with his wife, Beth (an artist) and two sons and is a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cheshire.