About Master's Design

Board of Directors

Debra Slight

Debra Slight has been active in ministry since 1999. Trained as a Primary Health Care Worker, she served with Mercy Ships for 5 years, ministering to the people of Africa.

She first visited Liberia in 2007 and was inspired by the beauty of the people and their resilient determination to move ahead in spite of what they experienced during the war.

As an ordained minister, she has traveled to more than 20 countries, ministering to the needs of people around the world. She currently lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Astrid Saether

Astrid Saether has been involved in overseas missions since 1993 in ten African countries, India, China, and Mexico. Graduate with a BA in Communications from the University of Minnesota and trained in Biblical Studies at Lay Ministry Training Center, she served as a missionary with Mercy Ships for nearly five years and has since been involved in numerous short-term mission projects.

Most recently received a mini-masters at the University of Saint Thomas in Project Management, she is currently working as a Nursing Support Coordinator in the Cardiovascular Community at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis Minnesota. Her desire is to see followers of Christ around the world equipped to fulfill the mission that God has called them to.

Robert Zeck

Robert Zeck and his wife, Jill, reside in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They are members at Cedar Rapids Family Church where Robert serves as the Sunday School coordinator and is active in many other areas of the church.

He has traveled to nine countries on short term missions trips and served full-time for three years in West Papua (Formally Irian Jaya), Indonesia.

Robert works at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.

Jill Zeck

Jill Zeck's greatest calling in life behind serving the Lord is being a wife. She is truly blessed to have shared the last 23 years of her life with her husband Robert. Their marriage has been an adventure since the day they said “I do!" They enjoy traveling and have traveled to seven different countries and countless cities in the US.

Jill is on staff at Cedar Rapids Family Church where she serves as the Administrative Assistant. She loves helping others and being on the front line of what the Lord is doing in and through the local church. She also has a huge heart for missions and enjoys being the secretary of the Master's Design board.

Jacqueline Hullaby

Jacqueline Hullaby’s heart for missions was stirred at Urbana, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship’s student mission conference in 1987. She served as a staff person with Young Life International from 1995-1997. She learned how to be “Jesus with skin on” while hanging out with French youth in Annemasse, France, leading local meetings and counseling at summer and winter camps.

She is actively involved at Cedar Rapids Family Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the prayer ministry and teaches French in the Cedar Rapids Community School District. She delights in God using her to stretch and grow His kingdom.

Washington Tweh Sr.

Washington Tweh Sr. and his five children live in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. In 2004 he started Jireh International Church in Clara Town, Liberia and continues to be the lead pastor. He has a heart to reach his people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to see the captives set free. He helps oversee the Children’s Ministry for Masters’ Design in Liberia.

Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the divinely inspired and the only infallible, inerrant, and authoritative word of God
(II Timothy 3:16, Romans 15:4, II Peter 1:20-21).

We believe that there is one God, infinitely perfect and eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Romans 5:5, John 1:1-3, 14).

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory (John 10:30, II Corinthians 5:21, John 21:24-25, Acts 1:9, Mark 16:19, Luke 24:6-7, Revelation 19:11-16).

We believe that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation of lost and sinful men (Titus 3:5, Romans 12:2, John 3:5-6).

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life
(II Thessalonians 3:13, I Peter 1:2, Ephesians 3:14-20).

We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, ever seeking together to become more and more in every way like Christ who is the head of His body, the church, regardless to the local Bible-believing church to which they belong. (Ephesians 3:1-15, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 3:28).

We believe that salvation is entirely by grace, through one’s personal faith in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9)