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Mark Casson is a husband, father, businessman and PCA Ruling Elder who also happens to have spent over 15 years serving a life sentence in California's prison system. He is the director of Metanoia Prison Ministries and serves as the Director of Prison Ministry for Mission to North America. Mark is a motivational speaker who has taken the gospel of grace to high schools, college campuses, prisons and churches. He has a passion for mercy ministry to prisoners that is infectious. Steve Corbett: Steve Corbett is an Assistant Professor of Community Development at Covenant College and serves as a Distance Learning Trainer for the Chalmers Center. Previously, Mr. Corbett served as Director of Field Operations and Training for the Chalmers Center. Prior to coming to Covenant College, Steve worked for Food for the Hungry International (FHI) as the Regional Director for Central and South America for two years. Before assuming these responsibilities, he served as the Director of Staff Training for nine years. In this capacity, he participated in the orientation and training of 1500 staff working in 25 countries. Mr. Corbett has a B.A. from Covenant College and a M.Ed. in Adult Education from the University of Georgia. Barry Henning: After serving as an Associate Pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee at New City Fellowship, Barry Henning moved to St Louis, Missouri in 1992 to plant a church that was committed to racial reconciliation and social justice. The church started with a focus on black – white reconciliation issues and ministering in an inner city neighborhood in the west side of the city. Throughout the mid-90’s, the St Louis area began receiving large numbers of immigrants from Bosnia, several Latin American countries, Asia and Africa. As God opened the doors to expand their ministries, New City Fellowship has become a multi-ethnic church of 800, meeting in two locations and embracing members from fifteen different nations, including large numbers from Congo, West Africa and Myanmar. The pastoral staff includes Anglos, African American, Congolese, Togolese and a Chin (Mynamar) pastor. Current community focused ministries of justice and compassion include a Christian school, a tutoring program, Harambee- a summer work/discipleship program for teens, health and medical assistance, home maintenance for widows, the elderly and single moms, adoption and foster care, and an immigrant-refugee outreach.
Barry is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia , PA and is ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America. Stephanie O. Hubach: Stephanie Hubach serves as Mission to North America’s Special Needs Ministries Director. Steph is the author of Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability (P&R, September 2006) and All Things Possible: Calling Your Church Leadership to Disability Ministry (Joni and Friends, August 2007), an adjunct instructor for Covenant Theological Seminary, and contributing writer for ByFaith magazine. Steph and her husband Fred have been married for 25 years and have two sons: Fred and Tim, the younger of whom has Down syndrome. Randy Nabors: Senior Pastor, New City Fellowship, Chattanooga, Tennessee since 1976. Randy has helped to develop a permanent committee of Mercy in the Tennessee Valley Presbytery, and has taught and trained extensively in the area of mercy and diaconal ministry. He serves as the movement leader for the Urban and Mercy Network of Mission to North America for the PCA. Thurman Williams: Thurman has been the pastor of New Song Community Church (PCA), in Baltimore, MD, since February of 2000. Prior to that, he served as the Minister of Outreach and Youth at Faith Christian Fellowship Church (PCA), also in Baltimore, for 5 years while attending Chesapeake Theological Seminary. Before serving at Faith, he was on staff for 4 years with the ministry of Young Life. Thurman has been married to his lovely wife, Evie, for 12 years and they have been blessed with four beautiful children, Charvez, Shaquana, Joshua, and Caleb. Thurman serves as a member of the PCA’s Mission to North America Committee and is the chairman of Chesapeake Presbytery’s Urban and Mercy Ministries Committee. Thurman is also currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Covenant Theological Seminary
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