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Advocates & Speakers

World Help has a rich history of global impact, reaching more than 96 million lives in 90 countries since our inception in 1991. Our speakers are passionate, knowledgeable, and personally invested advocates in our mission to bring help and hope to a hurting world. Collectively, they deliver messages of inspiration and motivation on global issues to classrooms, churches, universities, conferences, fundraising events, and large-scale venues nationwide

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Meet the Team

Noel Yeatts, President of World Help

Noel serves as President of World Help and has spent over two decades working at the intersection of faith, humanitarian outreach, and community-led transformation. Noel focuses her work on raising awareness to the urgent needs of the world while providing both physical and spiritual help to communities facing poverty, disaster, persecution, and crisis. Her work has taken her around the world, where she has witnessed firsthand that meeting the needs of the whole person — body and soul — is what leads to lasting transformation. Noel is a prolific speaker and author of several books, including Both: Living Outside the Either/Or of Your Faith.

Dr. Tom Thompson, Senior Vice President of World Help

Prior to World Help, Tom spent over 30 years as an itinerant evangelist and executive pastor of a large church in southern California. He has traveled to over 75 countries helping national partners train church planters and establish local churches. Tom’s experience in these countries and his passion for the Church around the world will challenge your congregation for high-impact ministry.

Cyrus Mad-Bondo, Church Relations Representative

Cyrus loves God unreservedly and delights in serving the least and the lost. He served for 10 years as World Help’s Vice President and Africa Chief Strategist and is currently serving as a Church Relations Representative. He has also worked as a pastor in the Washington, D.C. area. Cyrus is originally from the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) and has had opportunities to share the Gospel across Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Western Europe.

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