George W. Mamo
Senior Vice President
George Mamo has more than 30 years' experience in the not-for-profit field. He was Executive Director of Atlanta-based Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity and the related TEP Foundation before joining the Central Atlanta Churches Coalition as Executive Director, where the Atlanta Community Foundation cited him for management excellence. As Vice President of Administration for Oklahoma City-based Feed the Children, he was the organization's principal spokesman following the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, while working with a coalition of charities and foundations to coordinate relief efforts for victims.
Later as Senior Assistant to the President of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development in Arkansas, Mamo was responsible for the human resources function in forty countries. While with Winrock, he was seconded to the World Bank for a project with the Forestry Department in Uttar Pradesh, India. He joined The Fellowship in 1999 as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He currently holds the position of Senior Vice President for the Chicago-based Fellowship. He is frequently interviewed and speaks on the topics of Christian support for Israel and Jewish-Christian relations. His presentation to the Jewish Theological Seminary was recently published as part of Uneasy Allies: Evangelical and Jewish Relations.
Mamo was ordained as a deacon by First Baptist Church of Atlanta, and licensed to the ministry by Putnam City Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. In 2000, Rutgers University named him one of the "Fifty Finest" graduates from the Camden Campus. He is former chairman of Rutgers' Camden College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Advisory Council and the Midwest Regional Board of American Friends of Magen David Adom (Israel's "Red Cross"). In May 2004, he received the University's highest honor, when he was inducted into Rutgers' "Hall of Distinguished Alumni."
George and his wife, Kay, make their home in Naperville, Illinois, and have one son.
Available Topics:
Do you want to know a secret?
An overview of the lifesaving work of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and the impact of Christians and Jews working together in response to Scripture.
The least of these my brothers: Matthew 25 and Christian ministry to the Jewish people
in need, looking at both Old Testament scripture and the teachings of Jesus.
Do we not owe them?
In Romans 15, Paul writes, "For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews' spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings." Learn how this applies to Christians today.
Who are Evangelical Christians and why do they support Israel?
A snapshot of the 70 million Americans who say they are "born again" and the real reasons they support Israel.
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