About Us
Surviving seasons of grief, trauma, and despair calls for strength, tenacity, and resilience.
To appropriate those, however, we need others to come alongside us and encourage us.
We need our social network to remind us of our value and worth. In short, we need others to remind us that we are treasured. As we grow and walk towards healing, we recognize that given the right support and encouragement, we can be triumphant.
Triumphant N Treasured offers this support and encouragement to widows and women who have endured a season of grief, trauma, and despair.
Realizing that other people KNOW what you are going through, and that you are not alone is a big part of your healing journey. You don’t have to walk this road alone because others have walked this road before you.
Cynthia Mascarenhas
Founder/CEO
Cynthia was widowed on February 4th, 2018, when she lost her husband of 29 years, Franz Mascarenhas, to a sudden heart attack. She met her husband in Bombay, India, fell in love, married and remained in love through the challenges and blessings of marriage. They successfully navigated the challenges of being newly weds and new immigrants to the USA.
Together they raised two beautiful daughters and raised them to be women who loved and feared the Lord.
Professionally, Cynthia is a Registered Nurse and Independent Legal Nurse Consultant. She also is a Master Certified Professional Life Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Her desire is to help widows and women who have survived trauma navigate the transitions in their life.
Cynthia has used her problem solving skills and heart of service to bring attention to the mostly unknown and unseen challenges faced by widows around the world. Her desire is to see the church embrace a widow as a member of the body of Christ, and reach out to help widows in the community as representative of the ‘hands and feet of Jesus’.
Board of Directors
Megan Kenney
President, Director of Marketing & Communications, and Secretary
Krystal Perea
Treasurer
Bobby Vanderzalm
Director at Large
Richard Godsil
Megan Kenney
President, Director of Marketing & Communications, and Secretary
Megan (née Mascarenhas) earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music and education from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and a Master’s degree in Musicology from Northwestern University. After graduate school, she spent a year in Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright grantee conducting graduate research and teaching English in two Austrian schools. Megan currently teaches children and adults private piano lessons and coaches ice hockey.
After losing her dad in 2018, Megan’s heart has been to minister to widows and their families. She is a certified Ramsey Financial Master Coach and aims to help married couples plan and prepare their finances, equipping them to withstand the financial woes of widowhood.
In her spare time, Megan loves long walks with her husband and golden retriever, family road trips, hockey, reading, and coffee dates with friends.
Krystal Perea
Treasurer
Krystal married her high school sweetheart and the two were later blessed with three sons. As a teacher, she has worked in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as now in a college teaching math. She and her husband made homeschooling their boys a priority and in turn had the wonderful privilege of doing so from kindergarten all the way to their sons’ high school graduations. Krystal has served in many ministries throughout the years, working with children, married couples, the Deaf community, youth, widows, orphans, and as treasurer for a high school booster club. As a proud military wife, she is very thankful for her family and she simply wants to serve the Lord wherever He leads her.
Bobby Vanderzalm
Director at Large
Bobby is a pastor of a local church in Orlando, FL who serves the senior/widow community at his church.
Richard Godsil
Richard is a Staff Missionary with Great Commission Alliance and a Pastoral Counselor and Family Coach. Working with the Great Commission Alliance Organization allows him to train, disciple, encourage, and empower youth, pastors, families, leaders, and communities worldwide.
His specialty is in coaching families and discipling pastors to be unique servant leaders for the Kingdom, by providing them with tools and the resources to strengthen their families and churches that will allow them to work within their communities on a deeper level.
In 2009, he published a small group book entitled, “Building a Strong and Loving Family” to help churches and small groups with strengthening families.
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By giving today, you can partner with Triumphant 'N Treasured to continue local and global ministry to those enduring seasons of grief, trauma, and despair. Our non-profit organization relies solely on the generous donations of people like you! Thank you for your generous support and prayers.
Walk With a Widow and Project Purple are ministries of Triumphant 'N Treasured, Inc - a 501(c)3.
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