Our Team
Walker Maginnis
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Walker Maginnis is excited about the opportunity of leading Global Partners in Life as CEO after serving communities in Panama City, FL, Peachtree City, GA, and Charleston, SC over the past 28 years. A graduate from Georgia Tech in Architecture with a Masters from Southwestern Seminary in Ft Worth, Texas, Walker has served in a variety of leadership and executive positions, including engaging teams in partnerships overseas in almost 20 countries. Walker and his wife Michelle have been blessed to be married almost 30 years and have three adult children- Coulter and his wife Grace, and Alex and Sydney who are finishing at Anderson University. They currently live in the Greenville, SC area.
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Feel free to reach out to him with questions, prayer requests, or even to set up a time to talk or meet.
Beau Sides
FOUNDER, CFO AND
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Beau Sides is the founder and president of Global Partners In Life, a non-profit organization that excels in assisting orphans, widows, and those with special needs, globally with their humanitarian, educational, and medical needs. Beau considers the children he has served and gotten to know as his friends, and is honored to be a small part of their lives. He is amazed by how abandoned children with medical issues remain happy, and considers those children his teachers.
Beau is the author of two books, Lessons from China: A Westerner’s Cultural Education and Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China, which share the fictional journeys of international traveler Jan Cross. The first book provides unique insights into current Chinese culture, etiquette, and economic development; and the second book describes the challenges and joys of her involvement with China’s special needs orphans and orphanages.
