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Theo Williams, President-Kingston, Jamaica. Theo graduated from Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana with an AA Degree in Journalism and BA in Communications and from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary with a M.A. in Urban Ministry. He was an original member of Bethel's Discipleship and Reconciliation intentional community, The House of Higher Learning (HHL). He has been led to minister in the inner cities of the U. S., as well as abroad. He has spoken at numerous conferences, colleges and churches on the topic of reconciliation and tries to live it out on a daily basis. Theo currently lives in Kingston, Jamaica where he ministers with his wife Nicole. They serve with RENEWED Ministries, a ministry that focuses on developing mentoring relationships with youth.
Email: theo@iantioch.org

Eon Johnson, Chairman of the Board-Chicago, Illinois. Eon was born into and raised in a multi-ethnic family and has been actively involved in racial reconciliation since his relationship with Jesus Christ began in 1995. He was a part of the historic group of students that started the HHL. He once served as its coordinator and is now an advisor for the program. He has committed to continually engage in this process within his own life. For the last 6 years he has served as a minority recruiter for two different Christian colleges. This has allowed him to promote higher education in African American and Latino communities while at the same time helping these campuses achieve diversity and reconciliation. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois and works at Northpark University.
Email: eon@iantioch.org

Ryan Flemming-Gary Indiana. Ryan graduated from Bethel College in 1997 with a BA in Christian Ministries. The following year he became the Coordinator for the HHL at Bethel. Soon after that, he became an urban missionary with the Missionary Church. He is married to a Dominican princess named Johanna, who joins him in his ministry. After serving several years as an associate and youth pastor with Living Waters Church, Ryan and Johanna are planting The Revolution, a church reaching out to the hip-hop community. In addition to his ministry in the pulpit, he is also a DJ with the Hip Hop collective, the Wax Musim.
Email: ryan@iantioch.org

Angelica (Angie) Wilshire-Somerville, Massachusetts. Angie graduated from Boston College , receiving a BS in Business, focusing in Human Resource Management. Angie is currently finishing up her Masters of Arts in Urban Ministry at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. In 2003, Angie began working as the Director of Multicultural Affairs and Spiritual Programming/International Student Advisor at Pine Manor College. With this job she learned of her call to a ministry in a multicultural context, a call that surprised her.   Angie is now working as the Administration Manager at Applied Evaluation Systems, the consulting enterprise of the Emmanuel Gospel Center. EGC is dedicated to the vitality of urban churches and their communities. Angie enjoys singing, writing and having one-on-one conversations with various individuals.

John Runyon-Lynn, Massachusetts. John grew up as a Missionary Kid in the Dominican Republic. While attending Bethel College, he became involved in the House of Higher Learning, an intentional covenant community committed to addressing racism and cross-cultural issues. After college, he moved to Massachusetts and enrolled in Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for his M.Div. and Th.M. degrees. While in school, he also served as an associate pastor in a Brazilian church in Boston. In March 2000, John came on staff at the Center for Urban Ministerial Education, Gordon-Conwell's Boston campus where he serves as Associate Director for Enrollment Management and also as adjunct professor in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. He currently resides in Lynn, where he and his Brazilian wife Eliana are Lead Pastors of One Voice, a multicultural church plant in that city. John recently served on the Lausanne 2004 Forum Issue Group "Reconciliation as the Mission of God: Faithful Christian Witness in a World of Destructive Conflicts and Divisions," which recently launched a global Reconciliation Network.
Email: john@iantioch.org

   

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