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Christy Carlin Knetsch

Christy is the Director of Youth Ministry at Madison Square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, overseeing their Middle and High School Ministries. She also supervises the Grand Rapids Initiative for Leaders (GRIL U) Program, which prepares students for leadership and service in the church and world. Inspiring and equipping adults to invest deeply in the lives of students in grades 7-12 is her passion. She loves to be a bridge builder by connecting students to God, each other, their mentors, church, community, and world.

Chris Cassis

Chris Cassis is the Lead Pastor of The Source Church. Chris left Calvin Christian Reformed Church in the fall of 2013 with his wife Viviana, and their four children: Michael, Katelynne, Brianna, and Caleb to plant a church in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The Source Church is part of a vision to plant 20 churches in South Florida by the year 2020.

Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown's journey as a racial reconciler began in college with an experience called Sankofa-- a three-day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South. She was never the same. Now she has the pleasure of collaborating with various Christian ministries who are moving forward a vision of racial reconciliation and socioeconomic understanding. Her day job is working as a Resident Director and Multicultural Liaison for Calvin College. Whether speaking, training, facilitating dialogue or planning strategies, she loves the messy work of reconciliation. 

Mark Charles

Mark Charles is the son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man. He lives on a Navajo Reservation and tries to understand the complexities of the history of the United States regarding race, culture, and faith so that I can help forge a path of healing and reconciliation for our people.

Calvin Chen

Calvin Chen is currently a Master of Divinity student at Regent College in Vancouver, BC and ministry intern at First CRC Vancouver. He has also served for 9 years on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA in Madison, WI in campus ministry and as regional multi-ethnic ministries specialist. He is a Taiwanese American originally from Chicago and occasionally blogs at calvindc.wordpress.com

Cenaida Chilito

Cenaida resides in the rural town of Barrhead, AB with four of her six children who are her life. At present she does janitorial work with which her children often help her. Cenaida and family belong to the Neerlandia CRC and also attend St Anne's Roman Catholic Church.

Shiao Chong

Shiao Chong is campus minister at York University, Toronto, and attends Rehoboth Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Etobicoke, Ontario. He is a regular contributor to Think Christian and The Banner, as well as at his own blog: http://3dchristianity.wordpress.com/. 

Danielle Chun

Danielle Chun is the Justice Mobilizing and Advocacy Fellow for the CRC Office of Social Justice. 

Brian Clark

Brian is the communications manager for the Christian Reformed Church's international media ministry—Back to God Ministries International. He has written for the CRC's mission agencies since 2013. He enjoys his work because he gets to keep up with a wide range of ministry activities from many parts of the world and communicate how God is working in the lives of people through those activities. 

Brian graduated from Trinity Christian College with degrees in communication and Spanish.

Emily Cole

Emily Cole is a student studying social work and international development at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She loved the experiences she had in Honduras and hopes to continue to hear stories from immigrants and work in promoting justice in the community where she lives.

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