Our Staff

Our Staff


Tom Allanson

Founder & CEO

Tom Allanson was incarcerated for 16 years, and became a Christian while in prison. He felt called to minister to lost inmates in prison and prisoners upon release. He was the president of the first Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) prison ministry. Upon release from prison he became chapter president of the FGBMFI in Cumming, GA and served as field representative over the prison ministry. Later he became FGBMFI’s national director of prison ministry. He started an aftercare ministry in 1993, and then began SFAC in his home in 2004. He attended Ministry Ventures’ training for two years to learn how to operate a ministry. His college degree is from the University of Georgia. 


Susan Whitt

Board Member & Accountant

Bookkeeper and Accountant since the beginning of SFAC Ministries.


Susan Whitt has over 20 years bookkeeping experience. Specializing in Small Business Accounting and Non Profit Accounting. She has been in business since 2003. Proficient in QuickBooks and a member of the Intuit Pro Advisor Program, and also a member of American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers, AIPB.org. She is also a member of the Better Business Bureau. She serves as Board Member of 3 Non Profits in the Cumming area. She has been married for 23 years and has 3 beautiful children.


Susan Whitt

Board Member & Accountant

Bookkeeper and Accountant since the beginning of SFAC Ministries.


Susan Whitt has over 20 years bookkeeping experience. Specializing in Small Business Accounting and Non Profit Accounting. She has been in business since 2003. Proficient in QuickBooks and a member of the Intuit Pro Advisor Program, and also a member of American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers, AIPB.org. She is also a member of the Better Business Bureau. She serves as Board Member of 3 Non Profits in the Cumming area. She has been married for 23 years and has 3 beautiful children.


Richard Dingler

Board Member / House Director

Richard has been with SFAC for 15 years, He lives and serves SFAC 24/7 and as a mentor he is the essential link to the residents and their return to society. After a man has been incarcerated for a number of years, the world is like a different planet and he has to re-learn how to cope with the world. Richard has patience and love for these men. He is also their transportation to and from work, church, and even the store. SFAC is blessed to have Richard.


Lee Robbins

Board Member

Lee has, for the last 5 years, enjoyed serving as a Re-entry Coach and Motivational speaker at Philips Transitional Center and State Prison. He has provided housing, job and life skill training, and spiritual economic empowerment to hundreds of Returning Citizens (Ex-Offenders).

Currently, Lee serves as Gwinnett Community Coordinator for the Department of Community Supervision (www.dcs.georgia.gov.)

He is the Founder/CEO of Life Empowerment Enterprises, Inc., a Life Coaching and Certification company providing coaching services in various areas. For more information go to www.leerobbins.com.



Rev. Stephen King

Board Member

Rev. Stephen King married his high school sweetheart, Bobbie, 46 years ago and together they have 6 children. He has been an ordained minister of the gospel since July of 2005 and a Hope Minister of Mount Paran North Church of God since May 2012.



Rev. King began his professional occupation with Lockheed Martin in 1983 and is currently an Engineering Liaison Planner supporting several aircraft programs. During his years of employment, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. President’s Counsel of Service and Civil Participation have recognized Rev. King on multiple occasions for his community service while volunteering for Setfree After Care, Cobb County ADC Chaplaincy, Georgia Department of Corrections Chaplaincy and The Jacob House Project.


He is an avid motorcyclist and enjoys singing and making music videos


Mark Patton


Board Member


Molested at the age of five. Alcohol became my best friend at 13 and by 14 I was experimenting with drugs. By 16 I was using every day and on my 18th birthday I was doing time for armed robbery. Four more trips to prison and many years later, at the age of 42 I met Jesus on the cold jail cell floor in Gwinnett county jail. Pastor Winston Menzies brought in the gospel and invited me to come to the shepherds house upon my release where God and the pastor help men restore their lives. After many years of applying God‘s principles to my life, now at the age of 63 I am happily married, debt-free, own my own business and home and living my life for Jesus Christ. I am now involved with set free after care ministry, winning souls in the jails and prisons with Tom Allanson and giving God the glory in all I do.
                   For He Is Worthy,
                          Mark Patton

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