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John Elwood

John Elwood serves as a board member of Evangelical Environmental Network, works with the Presbyterian-related Creation Care Coalition, and publishes the Christian-environmental Clothesline Report blog.  He is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. John and his wife Barbara live in Andover, NJ, where they founded Good Hand Farm, an organic produce co-op serving more than 700 members. John also manages investments for True North Management Group, a private equity firm he helped to found in 2003.

Jason Entingh

I'm currently going into my senior year at Calvin University, where I'm studying linguistics, anthropology, and international development. After graduation I hope to pursue a graduate degree in cultural anthropology and practice applied anthropology in the field of community development. I love learning about people, places, and cultures, and how they inform what it means to be human in God's creation. In my spare time, I enjoy rock climbing, mountain biking, playing bass guitar, and reading Russian literature.

Paul Estabrooks

Paul Estabrooks is a storyteller, broadcaster, missionary. He has authored five books for Open Door International where he worked for 38 years. In 1981, he coordinated Project Pearl – the clandestine delivery of one million Chinese Bibles (232 tons) in one night on a beach in southern China. He and his bride of 54 years, Dianne, make their home in London, ON. They have three married children and eleven grandchildren.

Rick Faw

Rick Faw has been a lead educator at A Rocha Canada since 2004. In 2014 he became the Vice President of Programming.

Rick combines academic backgrounds in science (BSc) and theology (MCS) with a love for the outdoors. His desire is for people to integrate their spiritual life with their experience of the created world. Rick, along with his wife Crista and children Jared and Zoë, lives and plays at Kingfisher Farm in Surrey, BC.

David Feddema

I am a Financial Advisor with one of the Canadian banks for the past 22+ years.  My wife Cindy and I have attended Destination for the last 10 years and serve where needed.  We participate in the food programs, leadership team, Sunday morning services and music ministry.  We enjoy the missional outlook of Destination Church and are encouraged by serving the community and City of St Thomas.  

 

Anne Fennema

Anne Fennema is a member Loop Church, a small Christian Reformed church in Chicago, IL. Anne works as a Project Manager at a non-profit that finances affordable housing. When she's not working she loves to hang out with friends and family or spend time outside running, biking, swimming, and hiking.

David Flikkema

David Flikkema has been employed in the insurance industry for over 25 years and is seeing first-hand the increasing impact of climate change on property and livelihoods all over the globe. His work with the Climate Witness Project challenges churches in the Greater Toronto Area to talk about creation care and how to lower people’s carbon footprints. “Do something” is his challenge: reduce your plastic, drive less, walk more, take care of what God has given us. You can contact him at davidf360@rogers.com.

Paola Fuentes Gleghorn

Paola Fuentes Gleghorn is a Communications Specialist in the Communications Team for the Office of Social Justice and the Centre for Public Dialogue. She also works as a Communications Specialist for Faith Formation Ministries. She graduated from Calvin College in 2014 with a degree in International Development Studies and a minor in Business. Paola is originally from Costa Rica, but grew up in Nicaragua where her family were missionaries working alongside local churches in the areas of pastoral training, youth leadership development, and evangelism. Some of her areas of interest include working toward justice and removing barriers that prevent flourishing of all, especially those who are oppressed and marginilized, community development, youth leadership development, and creating partnerships between different people working towards the same development goals. Paola and her husband Jeff currently live in Grand Rapids, MI. Paola is one of the editors of Do Justice, along with Victoria Veenstra.  

Deanna Geelhoed

Deanna Geelhoed works to restore the healthy and beauty of the Plaster Creek Watershed, through here work at Calvin College with the Plaster Creek Stewards Initiative. Through this work she enjoys educating others about how to care for our waterways, conducting research, and managing restoration projects. In her free time she manages the community garden at Creston CRC, the church she is a member at. Within her roles at Creston she serves as a deacon, youth teacher, and a member of the anti-racism team. You can often find Deanna spending time swimming in our local lakes and rivers. 

Ron Geerlings

Ron Geerlings is the West Africa Regional Director for Christian Reformed World Missions. 

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