Mustard Seed Ranch has appointed Elizabeth Lisic as the new Executive Director.
Lisic is a graduate of Tennessee Tech and also serves as an Executive Pastor at Christpoint Church in Sparta. Lisic said becoming the executive director has been an answered prayer as her family roots run deep with the Mustard Seed Ranch.
“My family has truly seen the power of the ranch over the last 10 years as we have been affiliated as volunteers, and donors, and partners with the work,” Lisic said. “And so to be able to support in this way feels like just another step in our partnership with the ranch and so I am very excited.”
Lisic said she originally got involved with the Mustard Seed Ranch because she felt the mission to help kids heal from their past and build a better future spoke to her. Lisic said as the new director she is excited to continue the great work of Mustard Seed Ranch.
“We have been finalizing the last two new homes on the ranch which is going to continue expanding our ability to help even more kids,” Lisic said. “And that work has been definitely a legacy that I am able to step into because of the amazing work that was done prior to my arrival at the ranch.”
Lisic said ten years ago she would have never imagined becoming the director.
“That was not something that I would have seen and that’s one of the reasons I think it’s so beautiful,” Lisic said. “When we paint the picture of our future we don’t know what it looks like and we don’t know what it looks like and we know what we are asked to step into today, but I think about that with the kids that come to the ranch as well. We don’t what their future holds and they don’t know what their future holds but just like I would have had no idea that this was on the journey that I would be walking on right, it’s really amazing and exciting to think about what their journey might hold which the ranch can help them find.”
Lisic said she spent 10-plus years working at Tennessee Tech working in the grant-funding research center. Lisic said it was through that experience that she learned how to build programs that better other people in the community.
