Rick Dickson has been named vice president of finance and CFO. Dickson has served many roles with MAF around the world. He was the organization’s southern Africa area manager, overseeing MAF operations in the countries of Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. He also spent six years as director of MAF’s Latin America region. In 2011 Dickson moved to Meridian to assume the role of senior director of field operations at MAF headquarters, a job he held until being named director of finance in June 2014. Dickson spent more than a decade in the defense industry prior to joining MAF.

Aaron Bear is MAF’s new director of major funding and planned giving. Bear has been with MAF since 2006 and has held several management positions over the years. He most recently served as director of the MAF Foundation. Prior to joining MAF he was associate pastor at a church in Mountain Home. Bear is also an adjunct professor with George Fox University. He resides in Nampa.