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ELCA Region 1
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Paul Jolly is a retired Civil Engineer living in Portland, Oregon. He and his life partner, Karen, enjoy sharing their time working with volunteer organizations, traveling, and “hanging out” (ahh, a good hammock ….) at their cabin retreat in Eastern Oregon. Aside from his work as a Regional Coordinator (RC) for Lutherans Concerned, Paul is an associate member (schlepper of bells) of Bells of the Cascades (an auditioned English handbell choir that Karen rings in) and is President of the governing board for the water district that serves their vacation cabin. Paul became a Lutheran (one of those true choices in life) in his early twenties. It is through the Word and teachings of this church that he has come to the realization that all must be welcomed into God’s church. Paul is a member of Central Lutheran Church in Portland and is one of the team of people that helped guide the congregation to the decision to become Reconciling in Christ in 2003. Paul was elected with Karen to be Co-RC for Region 1 at the Lutherans Concerned Assembly in 2004. Since then they have worked with and within the Synods to promote the RIC program and work for full inclusion of LGBTIQ people in the life of the Lutheran Church. Paul looks forward with anticipation and eagerness to better things in this work in the years to come.
ELCA Region 2
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Kenny Callaghan, a native of Southern California, is committed to living out his faith engaging the world in the justice Jesus preached. He is active within the Los Angeles Lutherans Concerned Chapter, was a speaker at Prop 8 rallies, and continues to speak regarding equality, full inclusion, and justice for all people. Kenny serves on the staff of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, California, as the Music and Outreach Coordinator. He enjoys composing music for his church choir and soloists, is a leader in the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, and enjoys discovering new bakeries, coffee houses, and restaurants to sample their dessert delicacies.
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ELCA Region 3
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Javen is currently a candidate for ordination in the ELCA completing his internship year at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. He has been involved with the work of LC/NA since attending the Hearts on Fire assembly in July 2008. In addition to sharing a bit of his story on YouTube in a brief two-minute video as part of LC/NA’s “I Love to Tell the Story” project, he and his husband, Oby Ballinger, were featured in LC/NA’s video One Baptism, Many Gifts, which was produced in preparation for the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Javen has been married to Oby since May 2009. Oby serves as pastor of Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul Park, Minnesota. They reside in St. Paul, Minnesota.
ELCA Region 4
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René Garcia is the Region 4 Coordinator after serving six years as a Director and Co-Director of Multicultural Relations on the LC/NA Board of Directors. The son of a German-American Lutheran mom and a Mexican-American Roman Catholic dad, René and his brother were raised Lutheran. Attending Sunday School, confirmation classes, and vacation bible school in the summer were part and parcel of growing up in his family. In high school, René was part of the Southwestern Texas Synod Youth Board. Following graduation from Nordheim High School, René attended Texas Lutheran College earning a BA in Communication Arts-Media Studies and Spanish. He also earned the college's Certificate of Bicultural Studies. While at Texas Lutheran, René took on leadership roles with the Mexican-American Student Association, interned at a Spanish-speaking television station in San Antonio, and studied Spanish and Anthropology for six weeks in Querétaro, México. After completing requirements for a Texas Teaching Certificate in Secondary Spanish, he moved to Houston where he has been teaching for 14 years, currently at Cinco Ranch High School in Katy, a western suburb of Houston. René is a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Houston, the only RIC setting in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod. He and his partner Jason reside in Northwest Houston.
ELCA Region 5
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Kathy Shattuck finds it an honor to be able to work for the full inclusion of GLBT people in the church and outside of the church. She has seen and experienced faith at its very best and understands the work continues. Kathy and her husband Jim live in northwest Wisconsin on the same special land that she and Jim purchased 32 years ago and where they raised two children. In these natural surroundings they garden, cross country ski, walk their labyrinth, gather eggs from their small flock of chickens, and enjoy the Namekagon River and life in general. Kathy works in an independent bookstore/yarn shop/gallery in the town of Spooner just ten miles south of them. They also run a small retreat called Namekagon Waters Retreat.
ELCA Region 6
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ELCA Region 7
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Jim Mapstone-Knamm is the regional coordinator for region 7 with co coordinators Ken Miller. Jim has been with his spouse Barry Knamm for 40 years and they have been married Six years. They were married in Saint Paul Lutheran Church Arlington MA on Aug 26, 2004. Jim has been retired for over 20 years and has devoted his time to being very active in his local church, the New England Synod, and has attended all the churchwide assembles in the last fifteen years serving as a voting member one year. He has also been a member for many years of the Gay and Lesbian task force of the New England Synod and has worked with Goodsoil and MASS Equality. Jim’s passion and time has been devoted for the last 25 years for the full inclusion of LGBT people both within the church and in society at large.
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Ken Miller serves as a co-coordinator in Region 7, assisting Jim Mapstone-Knamm. Ken and his wife, Ruth, have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Both Ken and Ruth are retired but remain active in their local congregation, St. James, Coopersburg, Pennsylvania and in ministries of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod. Ken is immersed in a variety of Social Ministry efforts: food bank, soup kitchen, housing corporation, transportation of the elderly and handicapped, and others. He is a member of the Synod's Gay and Lesbian Ministry Task Force. Ken was a voting member at the 2001, 2005, and 2009 ELCA churchwide assemblies and was a Goodsoil volunteer at CWA 2007. He expects to be working most closely with New Jersey Synod, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, and Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod.
ELCA Region 8
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Dr. Peter Keyel is a layman raised in the ELCA who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, Beth Martin. He works as a scientist studying Immunology. He got more than he bargained for when he asked Seminex professor emeritus Ed Schroeder for a Biblical justification of homosexuality and was instead given a Lutheran Law/Gospel lens for considering it. Pleased to be free of the Biblicism he'd fallen into, Peter is now trying to apply what he's learned more generally. He serves on the board of The Crossings Community. He also works as a co-Regional Coordinator for Region 8 to promote Lutheran theology and share the Gospel call to fully include people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life and ministry of the Church..
ELCA Region 9
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Wayne Morris is a Florida native. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod but left the church in the '80s. For years, he felt God’s constant beckoning call to return, and finally he answered. Wayne chose the ELCA and became a member of St. Paul’s in Clearwater, Florida, in 2002. Three years later St. Paul’s became Reconciling In Christ. Wayne became involved in the movement for full inclusion after attending his first RIC training at St. John’s Atlanta. He has been the Region 9 RIC Coordinator since 2007. After years of prayer, Wayne finally met Steve, his life partner, in 2006. They were the first to hold a blessing service and commitment celebration in the Sanctuary at St. Paul’s. Wayne and Steve both work in laboratories at the local blood center.
Canada (ELCIC)
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