Our Story
The Amazing Faith Foundation is a business birthed out of compassion for our next generation. Empowering both women and men to become leaders in their families is crucial for fostering strong, supportive, and balanced households. Support is essential. We thrive when we uplift each other. By equipping families with these tools, we aim to foster environments where every member feels valued and understood.
We also emphasize the importance of community. Building strong networks of support within families and extending into broader communities can make all the difference. Our initiatives include workshops, peer mentoring, and community events designed to bring people together and provide opportunities for growth.
Ultimately, our goal is to create a ripple effect–strong, supportive families contribute to healthier, more resilient communities.
Beverly Claiborne, Evangelist, Wife, Mother, Author and founder of Abide Products and The Amazing Faith Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization that equips families with life skills for success that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life through adaptive and positive behavior. Beverly is the Christian author of Abiding in God’s Word, Speaker and Certified Personal Life Coach.
She encourages people to “Live Wise and Well in Christ” by pursuing Godly principles. Beverly grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and attended Indiana University-Purdue University. Before stepping out in faith to make Abide Family Blessings her full-time career focus, Beverly owned a successful Interior Design firm in Ellicott City, Maryland. Prior to running her own business, she served in management for three nationally known companies: General Electric, MCI, and Coca-Cola Enterprises. Beverly has been married for 24 years to Cary J. Claiborne, they have three children, and reside in Glen Allen, VA.
Beverly shows her passion for sharing God in a way that impacts Kingdom living. No doubt!! Beverly’s audience will benefit from her message of a loving, all-powerful God who transforms lives—for women who are struggling and for those who think they are doing pretty good.
Treasurer and Co-founder
Mr. Claiborne currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Adial Pharmaceuticals, a public biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for addiction. His career spans over 35 years in the Finance, Pharma and Biotech industries.
Prior to joining Adial, Mr. Claiborne served as the CEO of Prosperity Capital Management, LLC, a US-based Private Investment and Advisory firm that he founded. Mr. Claiborne is currently on the board of directors of NeuroSense Therapeutics, a public biopharmaceutical company, focusing on the discovery and development of targeted innovative therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases where he is also the Chairman of its audit committee and LadRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing new cancer therapeutics, where he also serves as Chairman of its compensation committee. Mr. Claiborne is also on the board of directors of VirginiaBio.
Mr. Claiborne previously served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and board member of Indivior PLC, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company developing medicines to treat addiction and serious mental illnesses. Among his accomplishments, Mr. Claiborne led the company’s spin off from its then parent company, Reckitt Benckiser, to become an independent, listed company. While at Indivior, he established and oversaw corporate reporting, internal audit, tax, treasury, external audit, and information technology. Prior to joining Indivior, Mr. Claiborne served as the CFO of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company, which was later sold to Mallinckrodt. Before joining Sucampo, Mr. Claiborne served as CFO and Corporate Secretary of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., and oversaw corporate finance during the company’s initial public offering. He graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Business Administration and from Villanova University with an M.B.A. and was a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow.
Dr. Tasha Dickerson, is a Richmond native, who joined Dominion Medical Associates, Inc. in 2005 practicing family medicine. Dr. Dickerson completed her residency at Hanover Family Physicians in Virginia after completion of a year-long internship at the Medical College of Virginia. While in her residency, Dr. Dickerson was appointed as Chief Resident. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 2001. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology from James Madison University in 1992 and then went on to earn a second bachelor’s in clinical laboratory science at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. Dr. Dickerson is a professional affiliate of the American Academy of Family Physicians, The American Medical Association and a former member of the International Peptide Society.
Dr. Dickerson is the CEO/Founder of EVIN SKINCARE Rx. She enjoys giving back/ volunteering and she also enjoys helping women of all ages feel better on the inside as well as the outside and that is how EVIN SKINCARE Rx was created.
Gennie Lacy Jones is president of The Jones Group of Mississippi, LLC. Established by Jones in 2003, The Jones Group service offering includes Acquisition and Contract Management, Program Management, Post Disaster Project Management, Business Development, Corporate and Community Relations. Over the past 10 years, their client base has been awarded over $290M in federal contracts. Prior to establishing The Jones Group, Jones was appointed Director of Employment Services for the Department of Employment Services for the State of Mississippi, where she created and assisted in the interpreting of workforce and agency policies. She also served as Director of Minority Business Enterprise for the State of Mississippi. Jones developed policies and programs that created successful women and minority business development and outreach programs.
Before serving the State of Mississippi, Jones served as First Deputy of the Office of Business Development for the City of Chicago, overseeing a contracting budget of $2.1B. Her responsibilities included women and minority business development, certification, contract monitoring and compliance, business and community outreach, stakeholder engagement. Jones also has over 20 years of experience as a senior project manager and contracting officer representative with the Federal Government managing large complex contracts for General Services Administration, US Agency for International Development and National Institutes of Health. During her federal career, she has held various senior management positions in a number of federal agencies receiving numerous awards and professional recognitions: Meritorious Civilian Service Award, Office of Management and Budget Award “Most Innovative Procurement Techniques”, National Award for Achievement in EEO Programs, Small Business Administration – Minority Advocate of the Year, General Services Administration IT Innovator of the Month, and General Electric Information Services Award of Excellence.
Jones has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Master of Science in Public Administration. She also completed an Intergovernmental Executive Development and Leadership Program at Harold Washington College.
Sharon is a devoted daughter, wife (to her husband, Gene), mother of two adult sons (Evan and Jason), mother-in-law, and grandmother of eight (with one more on the way). She enjoys traveling, learning, and exploring the history of new and different places. Sharon served 35 year as a speech-language pathologist with Howard County Public School System and recently retired. Sharon enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, slowly sipping green and mint tea in the morning before her devotional/Bible reading/prayer time, playing pickleball at the YMCA, volunteering as a Blood Donor Ambassador and Disaster Action Team member for the American Red Cross, volunteering at Asbury UMCDC’s food pantry (packing and serving groceries for church neighbors with food insecurity), participating in Bethany UMC’s missions projects, acting, and walking/jogging.
Devon McDonald is a native of Jamaica who grew up in New Jersey and attended high school at Eastside High school famous for the movie “Lean on Me”. He then attended Notre Dame in 1988 (famous for the movie “Rudy” #45) where he played Defensive end #45 and was on the national championship team. Devon was 3rd team All-American and at his last college game, he was MVP of the Cotton Bowl. He graduated with a degree in American studies.
He was drafted 4th round by the Indianapolis Colts in 1993 where he played for 3 seasons at linebacker wore #57. Devon played with All of Famers Marshal Faulk and Marvin Harrison. Devon was the Colt’s first Unsung Hero of the year recipient.
Devon spent one year playing in Arizona for the Cardinals. He then spent 2 seasons in the Arena football league in Tampa Bay. Devon worked at Sports World ministries where he spoke in schools for 18 years and was the president.
Today Devon is married to Shereasher wife of 27years, they have 2 daughters, Jazzmine and Rachel. The family resides on the east side of Indianapolis. He works with his wife in Athletes in Action official title Pro-NFL Chief of Staff to Chaplaincy. Organizational affiliations: NFL Alumni, NFL Players Assoc., Gideon International, and You Yes You.
