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Jeanette Romkema

Jeanette Romkema is a member of First Christian Reformed Church Toronto. She has been a Dialogue Education™ practitioner and educator since 1996. As an educator, trainer, consultant, advisor, and mentor, Jeanette is respected for her care in customizing instructional designs, programs, and consulting to the individual need and situations. She has extensive international and cross-cultural experience, having worked and lived more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Jeanette has now lived for 20 years in downtown Toronto with her husband Peter Noteboom and their two 20-year old sons Reuben and Jude.

Linda Roorda

Linda (Visscher) Roorda and husband, Edward, live in Spencer, NY, both former members of the Christian Reformed Church. She is a mother and grandmother, a medical/radiology transcriptionist, an empty-nest author, and past speaker at a multi-faith women’s retreat. She published some of her ancestral genealogy research in the “New York Genealogical and Biographical Record” in 2004, 2005 and 2008, writing personal-interest interview articles and a genealogy column in a local newspaper. An online blogger for several years, Linda enjoys sharing her faith in poetry and reflections at her new blog, “Poetic Devotions by Linda,” and genealogy research tutorials at “Homespun Ancestors.” She also wrote several articles for both the CRC/RCA Disability Concerns newsletter and The Network. Her hobbies include gardening, sewing, cake decorating, silk floral arrangements for church, and singing in the praise team at North Spencer Baptist Church.

Darren Roorda

Darren Roorda is the Canadian Ministries Director of the Christian Reformed Church. He is passionate about working to build up the Body of Christ and particularly about championing the work of the CRC in Canada. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife Beverly and their 3 daughters, restoring old cars and boats, or participating in triathlons. He bears a striking resemblance to Larry the Cucumber.

Theresa Roosendaal

Theresa is married and is the mother of four kids. She works part time for World Relief as the Refugee Youth Education Specialist and part time as the Director of the Family Learning Center in Kennewick, WA.

Corenna Roozeboom

Corenna lives in Chicago with her husband Schuyler and is a life-long member of Hope Christian Reformed Church in Oak Forest, IL. Her faith has made her deeply passionate about creation care and community development. Corenna currently works as a Garden Educator for an organization that connects inner city kids with their food by building school gardens and providing ongoing education and support for their teachers.

Harold Roscher

Harold Roscher is the chaplain and director of the Edmonton Native Healing Centre. Harold started full-time work in 2002 after the Creator challenged him to go back to school and prepare his heart to work with Indigenous people. At age thirty-five he became a registered Indian with the government — talk about a transition from being a little dark-haired Dutch boy! In recognizing himself as a Cree man, God launched him on this fantastic journey of discovery about self, culture, and the Gospel.  

Alex Rowaan

Alex Rowaan is 17 years old and lives in London, Ontario. He is in grade 12 at London District Christian Secondary School and is a regular attendee of Bethel Christian Reformed Church, both also in London. Alex enjoys biking, playing badminton, hanging out with friends, and eating.

Krystle Sanders

Krystle Sanders is a 30-something native of Prince George’s County Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. She is passionate about working with underserved peoples and communities which has led her ministry and non-profit work with children, youth, and adults with disabilities in DC, Maryland, Oklahoma, Thailand, and India. Krystle holds a Bachelors’s degree in Business Administration with a minor in humanities as well as certificates in Missions and Pastoral Ministry from Rhema Bible College. Krystle brings an authentic and sometimes humorous lens to her writing - that of a Christ-follower, black woman, youngest child, and xennial. Krystle spends her working time between teaching ESL virtually and learning about race equity in her current position at a black and woman-owned Talent Consulting organization. In her spare time, she volunteers at her church, writes blogs, and hangs out with friends and family.

Peter Sawtell

As the executive director of Eco-Justice Ministries since 2000, Rev. Peter Sawtell has helped churches to apply their faith and ethics to this time of deep ecological crisis. Eco-Justice Ministries has brought this message to hundreds of congregations and thousands of church leaders in the Rocky Mountain region, nationally and internationally.  Peter has been a speaker and workshop leader at religious conferences across the United States. He is widely known for his weekly email commentary, Eco-Justice Notes, which addresses current issues of environmental justice from a theological perspective. Peter is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ.

Terence Schilstra

Terence Schilstra is a missional community leader at The Table, a Resonate Global Mission partner church plant serving in the urban under-resourced context of downtown Thorold, Ontario where Terence lives with his beautiful wife and four children. He’s the author of Peace of the City; A Handbook for Missional Communities. He has an M.Div. from Tyndale Seminary Church-in-the-City program and is currently earning his Doctorate in Contextual Theology.

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