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Joyce Suh

Joyce and her husband Gil served as missionaries with Resonate Global Mission in Nigeria and Cambodia. She currently works for Resonate as program leader for intercultural gospel witness. She resides in San Jose, CA but grew up in Ontario, Canada. One of the great joys of her ministry work is having an opportunity to see how God is at work through many people and in many places around the world.

Ricardo Tavarez

Rev. Tavárez is a second-generation Latino immigrant of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent who has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids. He enjoys his culture. “Especially the food!” he shouts. At a youthful age, his passion became accessing skills and resources that he could bring into the urban areas of the city to build up minority community leaders. He earned a dual undergraduate degree at Kuyper College in Bible and International Business. He later graduated from Calvin Theological Seminary with a Master’s Degree in Divinity. Rev. Tavárez remains passionate about equipping urban leaders with cross-cultural leadership and ministry skills. He has served in various ministry roles and enjoys traveling as a workshop leader, preacher, and speaker. He currently pastors En Vivo Church, a Christian Reformed church plant. 

Angela Taylor Perry

Angela Taylor Perry currently serves as Pastor of Prayer at Voyage Church, a new RCA church plant in Kalamazoo Michigan. She is a triumphant 30-year survivor of Multiple Sclerosis. She is married to Raymond and has 13 grandchildren.

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JJ TenClay

JJ TenClay spent four years in Italy as a missionary for the Reformed Church in America (RCA) working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. She returned to the United States in July 2018 and is now the Refugee Ministries Coordinator for RCA Global Missions. She is thankful to have seen the image of God reflected so diversely in the faces of those to whom—and with whom—she served abroad, and is excited to continue serving the RCA as it continues to develop a faithful response to the ongoing global refugee crisis.

Brendon Thomas

Brendon currently works as a Grant Writer for EarthRights International out of their Washington D.C. office. Though a native of Grand Haven, Michigan, Brendon has spent most of the last six years living throughout Asia. He was previously based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where he worked at a law firm on environmental governance reform efforts related to extractive industries and renewable energy promotion. As a former Peace Corps volunteer (China 中国，甘肃省), Brendon enjoys spending his time traveling through remote areas on the maps edge, competing in endurance sports, doing yoga, and spending time with family along Lake Michigan. 

Bill Thornburg

Bill Thornburg manages the Volunteer Program for Resonate Global Mission. 

CRC Thrive

Nine ministries including the former Office of Social Justice have joined to equip and encourage our congregations more than ever before. Our new name is Thrive. Working together enables us to be more accessible, more integrated, and more responsive to the needs of our churches.  Learn more about the amazing resources that Thrive offers at: https://www.crcna.org/thrive

Doug Tjapkes

Doug Tjapkes is the founder and President of Humanity for Prisoners, based in Grand Haven, Michigan, and is author of the book Sweet Freedom. He and his son Matt work full-time in the charitable organization that helps Michigan inmates, one-on-one, in dealing with a multitude of in-prison issues. An active church organist, he has been on the music team at Ferrysburg Community Church (CRC) for 50 years. He and his wife Marcia live in Ferrysburg and have four adult children and 9 grandchildren.

Liz Tolkamp

Liz Tolkamp is the Children's Pastor at Willoughby Christian Reformed Church in Langley, British Columbia and also serves as a Faith Formation Regional Catalyzer for Classis B.C. South East, Classis B.C. North-West, and Christian Reformed churches in the state of Washington.

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