Board of Trustees

Our dedicated board actively oversees and supports Harp’s Crossing Christian Academy, ensuring we uphold our mission to deliver exceptional, Christ-centered education to our students and their families.

Brigadier General Rock Donahue
United States Army (Retired)

Chair

About Brigadier General Rock Donahue (United States Army, Retired)

Brigadier General Rock Donahue (United States Army, Retired) serves as chairman of the board of trustees. He retired from Georgia Military College in 2024 after serving 10 years as an Executive/Regional Director, Senior Vice President, and Assistant Professor of Leadership, and is active in various non-profit and church organizations/activities. Rock is also a proud veteran with more than 30 years of active federal commissioned service.

His experience includes a wide range of Army, coalition, and joint command and staff positions directing high-performing units ranging in size, and functioning in complex environments in the U.S. and abroad, including combat operations in Panama, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Rock brings more than four decades of executive experience in all facets of operations, planning, training, post-secondary education, and program execution. His experience includes administering enterprise-wide multi-billion portfolios, overseeing large-scale and global programs, achieving organizational goals and objectives, leading and developing human capital. He and his wife, Nancy, are active members of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church. They have been married for more than 42 years and have four children and ten grandchildren.

Areas of Expertise:

Strategic leadership
Organizational and leadership development
Operations and engineering management
Coalition building
Budget execution

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Deb Crane

Secretary

About Deb Crane

Deb Crane serves as secretary of the board of trustees. She enjoyed a 40-year career in corporate and legal environments, ultimately serving as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Kaydon Corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As the chief legal officer at Kaydon, Deb was responsible for managing all legal matters for the publicly-traded company. She also served as corporate secretary, which meant handling all corporate governance matters, including shareholder and board meeting preparations and minutes. Since retiring in 2013, Deb has been active in various non-profit and church organizations and activities, previously serving as chairman of Coweta Pregnancy Services.

Areas of Expertise:

Executive leadership
Contract and policy drafting and review
Corporate compliance and training
Litigation management
Acquisitions

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Ed Williams

Treasurer

About Ed Williams

Ed Williams, CPA CGMA, serves as treasurer of the board of trustees. He brings more than 40 years of business and finance experience. Before retiring, Ed spent 17 years in executive leadership roles as the chief financial officer of a financial marketing organization and vice president of finance for a healthcare company. Prior to this, he owned a consulting practice, where he primarily worked with small companies as their chief financial officer. He spent many years in public accounting, including six years at KPMG. Ed is a member of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church, where he a deacon, choir member, and services in the men’s ministry.

Areas of expertise:

Organizational leadership
Strategic planning and budgeting
Financial systems, policies, procedures, and financial controls
Mergers and acquisitions
Public company filings with the Securities Exchange Commission
Human resources

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Bryan Nation

Board Member

About Bryan Nation

Bryan Nation retired from the Clayton County Public School System in 2009, with 30 years as a supervisor in the district’s building maintenance department. In addition, he served six months as a consultant at Griffin RESA to assist with the setup of their warehousing system, and he served four years at Fayette County Schools in the warehousing and distribution department. He has been a member of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church for more than 13 years, and he currently serves as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, co-chair of the building committee, and director of Baptist Brotherhood. Bryan and his wife, Carol, have been married for 33 years. They have two daughters and six grandsons.

Areas of expertise:

School construction planning
Building maintenance
Procurement
Warehousing and distribution
Leadership
Technology

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David Smith

Board Member

About David Smith

David Smith brings more than 40 years of business management experience. He is currently a sales representative for a Caterpillar equipment dealership, a second career after owning and managing his own industrial equipment company for 30 years. Prior to being an active member of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church, where he is a Sunday school teacher, David was an active member of Eagles Landing Baptist Church in McDonough, Ga., where he served on a variety of church committees and in leadership positions. Additionally, he previously served on the board of trustees for Eagles Landing Christian Academy, including its initial start-up board. David and his wife, Patricia, have three grown children who are all graduates of Christian education, and nine grandchildren.

Areas of Expertise:

Personnel leadership
Advisement and Counsel
Business management
Marketing
Christian education

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Fred Cannon

Board Member

About Fred Cannon

Fred Cannon retired after 50 years in commercial and military aviation. After starting his career at Eastern Airlines, he served in multiple executive-level operational leadership positions for the airline start-up, ValuJet, which merged with AirTran Airways and then Southwest Airlines. Following his retirement from Southwest, Fred also served as executive director of the Delta Flight Museum during museum renovation at the Delta Headquarters campus located at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. He is a proud veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an inflight refueling specialist on a KC-135Q during the Vietnam war, including supporting the legendary SR-71 reconnaissance “Blackbird.” Fred is active member, deacon, and Sunday school teacher at Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church for more than 35 years. He and his wife Sandra have two sons and four grandchildren.

Areas of expertise:

Policy development and implementation
Regulatory requirements
Budget development and oversight
Workforce leadership
Marketing program development and implementation

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Sally Simmone

Board Member

About Sally Simmone

Sally Simmone is a retired elementary educator with 40 years of teaching experience. Sally taught for 36 years in public schools and four years at Harp’s Crossing Christian Academy, having taught 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and remedial reading and math classes during her career. While teaching in Clayton County, she was named Teacher of the Year in her school. In addition, Sally is a published author and public speaker. She has spoken at women’s church gatherings throughout Georgia and East Tennessee.

Sally and her husband Dan have been married 53 years. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. Together they served in churches for 39 years where Dan was minister of music and youth minister. They have been members of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church for 11 years, where they serve in the choir and Sally teaches Sunday School. She has passion for Harp’s Crossing Christian Academy, believes God is at work and growing it into a lighthouse in our community.

Areas of Expertise:

Classroom instruction
Academic standards and support
Writing
Speaking

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Tiffany Greenway

Board Member

About Tiffany Greenway

Tiffany Green brings 20 years of business experience. She currently serves at the Chick-fil-A headquarters, where she is responsible for the effectiveness and operations of the company’s digital transformation & technology organization and also serves as chief of staff. Prior to this, she held various leadership roles in Chick-fil-A, including marketing technology, digital communications, and public relations, and she also created the company’s employee resource group, Women in Business. Previously, she led marketing communications in the not-for-profit credit union industry. Tiffany is an active member at Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church, where she teaches Bible classes for women and serves in the student ministry. She is married to Ricky for 21 years, and is a mom of three children, two of whom are students at Harp’s Crossing Christian Academy.

Areas of expertise:

Communications & marketing
Strategy development
Technology management
Organizational leadership
Building new programs and organizations from the ground up

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Gana Chastine

Board Member

About Gana Chastine

Gana Chastine is an experienced human resources leader. She currently serves as the Human Resources Manager for Spalding Hosiery Shoppe, but has more than 30 years of professional experience. Gana has a strong background in providing comprehensive human resource services and background screening for small to mid-sized businesses, including operating her own background screening business. Previously, Gana served as a criminal intelligence analyst with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, where she was responsible for collecting and researching information, analyzing data to identify patterns of criminal activity, and presenting findings. She had the privilege of serving on the Federal Intelligence Team for the 1996 Olympics.

Gana has been married to Eddie for 42 years. They have been active members of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church since 1995, where Gana served in the children’s ministry. She and Eddie love outdoor activities and time with their two children and three grandchildren.

Area of Expertise:

Creating, executing and delivering HR policies and procedures (SHRM-CP certified)
Interviewing and recruiting
Data analysis

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Gayla Cummings

Board Member

About Gayla Cummings

Gayla Cummings retired in 2004 after a 24-year career in the U.S. Army, during which she held numerous leadership roles specializing in human resource management and human resource IT systems. Following her retirement from active duty, she has consistently supported the Army’s mission as both a civilian and contractor, concentrating on budget analysis, budget forecasting, and program oversight. Over the past two decades, she has been instrumental in providing financial and functional analysis for various Army Reserve human resource programs and has served as the project lead and functional director for a budget reporting application. Gayla is an active member of Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church and serves on the church building committee.

She and her husband, Clark, have been married for nearly 40 years and are the proud parents of three adult children and grandparents to four grandchildren.

Areas of Expertise:

Budget forecasting and oversight

Program analysis

Personnel leadership

Project management

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David Sexton

Board Member

About David Sexton

David Sexton, CPA, brings a background of financial leadership and church ministry to the Board of Trustees. His professional experience includes many years in CFO and Controller roles in various nonprofit organizations in the Atlanta area, including CARE USA, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Operation Mobilization. In those roles, he was responsible for overseeing and reporting to leadership and Board members the financial status of the organization’s resources, as well as developing and reporting on budgets at the overall organizational level and for specific aspects of the organization. David has also served as a deacon in three different churches, including his current deacon service at Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church. He has also taught Sunday School classes for around 40 years collectively.

Areas of expertise:

Leadership
Financial compliance and integrity
Planning and budget management
Teaching and developing staff

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Heather Hager

HEAD OF SCHOOL
Harp's Crossing Christian Academy

Kristen Little

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

EX-OFFICIO

Harp's Crossing Christian Academy

Dana Smith

FINANACIAL ADMINISTRATOR

Harp's Crossing Baptist Church

Dennis Watson

SPIRITUAL ADVISOR

Harp's Crossing Christian Academy & Senior Pastor, Harp's Crossing Baptist Church

Board of Trustees