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Mary Li Ma

Mary Li Ma is a research scholar, mission consultant, social scientist, and justice advocate. Mary has been working to bring attention to the problem of abuse within Chinese churches. She has a PhD in sociology from Cornell University and is author of Surviving the State, Remaking the Church, and The Chinese Exodus. Mary works extensively on issues of social justice and Christian mission in China, and writes for both public and Christian media in the Chinese-speaking world. She is currently completing a book about the experiences of Christian women in urban China, and in a few months, Mary will be launching a Safe Chinese Church website (in Chinese language), the first in Chinese-speaking Christian community.

Jason Lief

Jason Lief is an Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa. He is a Regional Organizer for Northwest Iowa for the Office of Social Justice. Jason and his family are members of First Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Trixie Ling

Trixie Ling is passionate about connecting people, food and land, and building community through eating and sharing food, stories, and life together. She lives out her beliefs through her work as a Community Connections Coordinator at the First Christian Reformed Church in East Vancouver by creating welcoming spaces and building relationships with neighbours through community night dinners, movie nights, and public talks. She is also a cook at Le Marché St George, a friendly neighbourhood cafe/general store making delicious crepes and serving the community. Trixie has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Simon Fraser University and is interested in policy, advocacy and community engagement around poverty and justice issues. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Citizens for Public Justice, a faith-based public policy organization that promotes public justice in Canada through policies and practices that reflect God's call for love, justice, and flourishing of creation. Trixie is a Do Justice columnist. 

Andy Littleton

Andy Littleton is a bivocational pastor at Mission Church in Tucson, AZ where he lives with his wife, daughter, 3 dogs, a goat and a desert tortoise.. He owns and operates a small local home goods store and invests in leaders and community building through Resonate Global Mission and Infuse. andylittleton.com

 

Lisa Loden

Lisa Loden immigrated to Israel in 1974, and with her husband, founded Beit Asaph Messianic congregation in Netanya. Lisa was the director of the Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies in Jerusalem from 2002–2007, and served on the faculty of the Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary from 2008–2013. She serves on several boards, including the Israeli Bible Society and Musalaha Reconciliation Ministries. She is the co–chair of the Lausanne Initiative for Reconciliation in Israel and Palestine, and is a member of several ecumenical theological dialogue groups. Lisa writes on reconciliation and related issues for various publications. She and Salim Munayer edited a book on the theology of the land – The Land Cries Out (Wipf and Stock, 2011) – and co–authored Through My Enemy’s Eyes (Paternoster, 2014).

 

Jennifer Lucking

Jennifer Lucking is the Executive Director of Restorations Second Stage Homes; her position is funded in partnership with RCA Global Mission. Located in Burlington, Ontario, Restorations exists to support Survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking by providing long-term residential housing, survivor-led peer programming, and holistic care. In Jennifer’s spare time, she loves reading good books, drinking strong coffee, and singing musicals with her family while driving or having a kitchen dance party. 

Laurel Luke

Laurel Luke is a recent graduate of Calvin College, where she studied Communication and Theology. At Calvin, she was the student assistant for the Calvin Prison Initiative, a five-year bachelor's degree program for inmates at a local prison. It is there that her interest and knowledge of criminal justice reform began. Currently, she is the Program Coordinator for a political non-profit called The Coalition of Justice Voters, which works to reform the criminal justice system in Michigan through legislative advocacy, public engagement, and candidate support.

Stephan Lutz

Stephan Lutz holds an MSc. in Ecological Agriculture and a BSc. in Tropical Agriculture from the University of Kassel in Germany. He has worked for the last 16 years with World Renew Kenya; first as a volunteer and then as a Program Consultant with Anglican Church-based relief and development organizations throughout the country. He has a passion for environmental stewardship and restoration, climate change advocacy, strategic thinking, servant leadership, participatory community development, and working with smallholder farmers to produce nutritious and diverse foods in an economically viable, empowering, and sustainable way.

Mark MacDonald

The Right Rev. Mark MacDonald assumed office as the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop after serving about 10 years as bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Diocese of Alaska where he was consecrated bishop on Sept. 13, 1997. His formal education includes a B.A. in religious studies and psychology at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., an M. Div. from Wycliffe, and a D. Min. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Married on Nov. 11, 1989, Bishop Mark MacDonald and his wife, Virginia Sha Lynn, have three children: daughters Rose May Li (born November 15, 1991), Brenna Li (born October 23, 1993), and one son, Adrian Blake (born May 21, 2000).
[Image: Michael Hudson for General Synod Communications]

Lisa Magliocco

Lisa Magliocco is a Program Associate with World Renew’s Refugee Sponsorship and Resettlement Program located in Burlington, Ontario. In this role, Lisa walks alongside churches across Canada as they welcome and resettle refugees from around the globe through Canada’s federal immigration program - the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (PSRP). Some of her responsibilities include preparing and submitting strong sponsorship applications  to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) , as well as providing resources and guidance to churches on how to plan for the refugee(s) resettlement to Canada.  Lisa is passionate about refugee justice and helping refugees seek safety, protection, and hope for a better future by welcoming them to our Canadian communities.

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