Leadership
Shelley Park
Co-founder and President
David Park
Co-founder and Vice President
Collin Packer
Director of Strategic Development
Shelley Park - President
Shelley Holland Park spent most of her youth as a missionary kid in Manila, Philippines. After graduating from Texas A&M University, she married David and they settled in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She has a background in theater and has spent most of the last 25+ years as a stay at home mom to Samuel & Jeremiah. She also has worked for Come before Winter, an international ministry to women in leadership, has served on their Leadership Team for ten years, as well as serving as the interim Executive Director from November 2020 through June 2021. She began teaching Let’s Talk Race: a Beginner’s Guide to Conversations About Race in February 2020 from her dining room table. In 2022 she was honored to be a member of the racial reconciliation emerging leaders cohort under the direction of Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil.
David Park - Vice President
In 2021, David left his 27-year career with Atmos Energy to join Shelley in pursuing a calling to racial reconciliation and justice. David graduated from Texas A&M with a Mechanical Engineering degree. His career included a variety of roles including his last role as Senior Vice President, Utility Operations. Now David is working on a Master’s in Christian Ministry from Abilene Christian University’s Graduate School of Theology.
His professional career led him to be active in a number of community organizations, including serving on the boards of the United Way in Bryan/College Station and Lubbock. He has served on the boards of the Chambers of Commerce in Bryan/College Station, Irving, and Lubbock. David is a past chair of the Texas Gas Association. He also served on the executive committee of the Dallas Regional Chamber and the Board of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
David & Shelley have been married since 1994 and have two sons, Samuel and Jeremiah.
Collin Packer - Director of Strategic Development
Collin received his Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry and Master of Divinity from Abilene Christian University. He then served as the Lead Minister for prominent Churches of Christ in Littleton, Colorado and Allen, Texas. As his calling evolved, Collin has served as the Director of Faith-Based Partnerships for CitySquare, a Dallas-based poverty-fighting nonprofit, as the Communications Director for State Representative Carl Sherman Sr. during Texas’s 88 th Legislative Session, and as a Scholar in Residence at the Siburt Institute for Church Ministry at Abilene Christian University. Collin also serves as the Co-Chair for MARCH (Ministry for Awareness, Relationships, Change & Healing), a Dallas-based multiracial group of Christians who work to manifest the gospel through love, peace, and justice.
He and his wife, Holly, are high school sweethearts. They were married in 2004 and have three children: Maddox, Addison, and Brooklyn. Though his family and passion for justice are his first loves, Collin enjoys golfing, reading, and avidly following Dallas’s Big 4 teams: the Rangers, Cowboys, Stars, and Mavericks.
Pamela Anderson
Board Member
Stephanie Hamm
Board Member
JoAnn Hummel
Board Member
Oric Walker
Board Member
Pamela Anderson - Board Member
Pamela Anderson is the CEO of Perfect Piece Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in corporate health strategies, leadership development, and strategic planning. With over 30 years of experience in corporate, nonprofit, and faith-based sectors, she has worked with organizations such as GEICO, Mission Resource Network, and T.D. Jakes Ministries.
Her faith is the foundation of her life and work, guiding her passion for servant leadership, integrity, and excellence. A Certified Leadership Coach, she has successfully led large-scale events, developed leadership training programs, and championed diversity-driven recruitment initiatives. She also serves on the board of two nonprofit organizations, furthering her commitment to community impact and purpose-driven leadership. Pamela resides in Dallas, Texas, loves cooking, travelling, entertaining, and spending time with her children and close friends.
Stephanie Hamm - Board Member
Stephanie Hamm is a full professor in the Abilene Christian University School of Social Work. Her social work practice has included mental health services with women and children, primarily. Her research interests include that of race, gender, spirituality, and higher education. She and husband, Scott, have two amazing grown children, a wonderful son-in-law, daughter-in-love, a perfect granddaughter, and a lazy dog named Daisy. Her interests include art, reading, gardening/plants, travel, and time with family and friends.
JoAnn Hummel - Board Member
JoAnn Hummel graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Theology and Christian Education. She also holds a Doctor of Transformational Leadership degree from Bakke Graduate University. In June 2023, JoAnn retired after 30 years on the pastoral team at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas. She is actively mentoring young women and works as an executive coach with Integrus Leadership.
Oric Walker - Board Member
Oric Walker serves as Atmos Energy Louisiana division President. Oric started his career with Lone Star Gas Company as a meter reader over 29 years ago. He climbed through the ranks while gaining experience in operations, marketing, and public affairs.
Oric is passionate about leadership development and community involvement. He has served on company and industry committees such as the Atmos Energy Culture Council, City of Dallas Economic Development Taskforce, Southern Gas Association Growth and Retention Committee, Junior League of Dallas Community Advisory Board, Dallas Regional Chamber Infrastructure Taskforce Co-Chair and United to Learn Advisory Council. He also volunteers his time on the Board of Trustees for the African American Museum in Dallas. Oric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. Oric is married to Omega and they have four children, Oric, Jr., Omari, O’Neicia, and O’Neethia.
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
Philippians 2: 3-4What’s In a Name?
Why LTR Ministries?
First we believe conversations are the first step in a journey of reconciliation. Therefore … Let’s Talk. Next is the “R,” which we believe can stand for several things. Here’s a few options:
When Jesus encountered the Samaritan woman at the well, they talked. As he was sitting around the table at Mary and Martha’s, they talked. His apostles approached him many times about hard things and things that were on their mind, and they talked. A woman snuck up and touched the garment of Jesus. He was compelled to talk to her even though she had already been healed. It wasn’t enough for Zacchaeus to see him in the tree, Jesus wanted to go to his house and talk. Jesus even talked with his mom.
A conversation is one of the most intimate encounters we have with people. It doesn’t just include talking, but more importantly, listening. Listening, real listening, is an act of dying to self where we set our ego aside and sacrificially empty ourselves to hear our neighbor. Learning to have the hard conversations is a sacrificial act of love.
Our Story
The first iteration of Let’s Talk Race: a Beginner’s Guide to Conversations About Race was a four-week class created by Ron Holland, retired minister at The Hills church in Ft. Worth, Texas, in the summer of 2018. “Let’s Get Ready to Talk About Race” was later promoted by the church following their pastor’s six-week sermon called “Why Talk About Race?” in January of 2019. It was intended to prepare White people to be able to have meaningful conversations about race in a multiracial/multiethnic environment. Ron recognized that there was a lot of history and a lot of vocabulary that White people just didn’t know.
In the fall of 2019, Shelley Park, Ron’s daughter, felt an urgent call from the Lord to “do something.” She had seen many BIPOC in the racial reconciliation space ask White people to teach other White people. She remembered her dad’s course and thought, “This is something I can do.” Shelley took the presentations that Ron had created and “made them her own.” In February 2020 she invited a few friends to be her guinea pigs. These four friends gathered around her dining table each week and walked through the classwork together. A second group was scheduled to start in March 2020 when Covid hit.
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In late April, Shelley wondered if the class might be taught on Zoom, so she reconnected with the second group of friends and they all agreed to be another set of guinea pigs. They met for four weeks on Zoom working through the recently renamed “Let’s Talk Race” class. It was during this class that George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis.
The summer of 2020 was a moment in history that will be studied for years to come. The initial reaction from White people was one of a genuine desire to learn and understand. Let’s Talk Race was the perfect answer for many people. After adding a fifth week to help accommodate more discussion, Shelley, sometimes joined by her husband, David Park, took more than 300 people through the class over the next 18 months. The class was never advertised, only spread via word of mouth, and participants came from all over the United States. Ron Holland continued to host classes at his church and also took several church leadership groups through the material.
In the fall of 2022, Shelley & David formed LTR Ministries, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization aimed at helping White people and predominantly White churches begin the journey of racial reconciliation.
"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
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