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Katie Hickok Mannebach is a social worker at Bethany Christian Services. She is passionate about racial reconciliation, child welfare, and Liverpool football.

Dr. Syd Hielema serves as co-director of the Canadian Multicultural Congregations learning cohort.

Nadine Hiemstra is a recent graduate of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the University of Waterloo. The pursuit of justice, peace and community has led her to the small, rural town of Hostotipaquillo in Mexico, where she is volunteering with a Catholic Worker´s movement house called Casa Colibri (or House of the Hummingbird). Everyday activities involve organic farming, running children´s programs, making language blunders in Spanish, observing the effects of poverty, and discovering what community is all about. 

Mark Hilbelink is the Lead Pastor of Sunrise Community Church in Austin, TX, one of the main leaders for YALT (the Young Adult Leadership Taskforce - a movement of young leaders in the CRC & RCA), the leader of the Lone Star Church Planting Cluster of Central Texas, and Stated Clerk for Classis Rocky Mountain of the CRC. Self-dubbed "The Weirdest Little Church in Texas", Sunrise consists of 13 missional communities across the city of Austin, specializes in radical socio-economic diversity, has quadrupled in size over the last five years, has planted two churches, and recently started its first multi-site campus.

Mark Hiskes is a retired English teacher in Holland, Michigan, where he and his wife attend Third Reformed Church. 

Scott Hofman is a youth leader at Madison Square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Mike Hogeterp is the former Director of the Christian Reformed Centre for Public Dialogue. He now works for NAIITS as lead facilitator for the NAIITS-led Canadian Learning Community for Decolonization and Innovation in Theological Education. Mike is married to Michelle, with three children. In his downtime he drums, canoes, gardens, cooks, and listens to music.

Jasper is a retired educator having served in Christian Schools in Alberta and Ontario as a teacher and principal. In retirement he is involved with supporting a food bank with fresh produce. He also takes time to write poetry about personal experiences. He also blogs about his journey of recovery from a brain injury. My focus is to walk lightly on the earth so
there is room for all.

Blogging at: LivingInGodsPocket.wordpress.com

The Rev. Dr. John Hubers is an RCA missionary ministering in  partnership with the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Prior to this he taught in the religion department at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, served as supervisor for the RCA mission program in the Middle East and South Asia and senior pastor of international churches in Oman and Bahrain as well as  congregations in New York, Michigan and Texas. 

Audrey Hughey is a senior at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was the co-director of Calvin’s 2014 Faith and International Development Conference. 

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