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Message from the Executive Director

 

Dear friends and colleagues:

 

Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior!

 

I have been given the great privilege of being called to serve you and the Church as executive director of Christian Churches Together. It is my hope and prayer that by our common efforts we will bring closer TOGETHER those who call Christ, Lord and Savior.

 

This is the first of many e-newsletters I will share with you. My plan is to send this e-newsletter once or twice a month. It will include a short message of encouragement or reflection from me or from one of the presidents of CCT. It will also include no more than 4-5 items of interest to CCT participants.

 

I encourage you to send me any appropriate material that you would like to share with CCT participants, and I will gladly pass it along.

 

None of us can avoid the good and bad effects of this political season with its billions of dollars spent in every kind of commercials conceivable. It is a dangerous season, because it has the potential to feed even more the sense of division among us.

 

I commend our friends from the Mennonite tradition that are calling us to look beyond the blue and red. They are calling us to look to the Table and seek to devote ourselves to the one who set the Table and invites us to come TOGETHER.

 

To Jesus Christ be all glory now and forever!

 

Rev. Carlos L Malavé

Executive Director

election day
Election Day Communion
 
On November 6, 2012, Election Day,
we will exercise our right to choose.

 

During the day of November 6, 2012,

we will make different choices
for different reasons,
hoping for different results.

 

But that evening
while our nation turns its attention
to the outcome of the presidential election,
let's again choose differently.
But this time, let's do it
together.

 

http://electiondaycommunion.org

 

(This activity is not officially endorsed by CCT. It is sponsored by several Mennonites & other churches)

 

 

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Photo Kate Davelaar
Meet Our Leaders
Kate Davelar is the newest member of the Steering Committee.

Kate Davelaar grew up in Holland, MI saying she would never attend Hope College (for no other reason except that it was in Holland, MI). While she may have entered Hope the fall of 1996 a bit reluctant, by the time she graduated with a degree in Psychology and Religion in 2000, she would not have traded her college experience for anything. While at Hope she was very active in Young Life Leadership and participated in the Campus Ministries Spring Break Mission trips. Her junior year she led a trip down to the Dominican Republic to work on the Young Life camp for a week, and then spent the summer down there as well. Desiring to spend a year living in another country after she graduated (before starting her "real life") she moved down to the Dominican Republic to work for Young Life three weeks after graduation. She spent five years working in Santiago with high school students through the ministry of Young Life, and quickly realized that this was indeed "real life."

In 2005 she moved back to Holland to attend Western Theological Seminary and continue work on a Masters of Divinity degree that she had started through Distance Learning. During her time at seminary she interned with Good Samaritan Ministries, Holland Hospital's Chaplaincy office and Hope College's Campus Ministries. She was also able to travel to Oman, Brazil and spend three months in East Africa, solidifying that though she was not sure what she wanted to do when she graduated, what she knew for sure was that she was not going to stay in Holland (the word "never" might have been thrown in there, thus solidifying again: never say never). She graduated from Western in 2008 and started working with Hope College's Campus Ministries as a chaplain in July of 2008. At this time, she cannot imagine doing something more life-giving than working with college students (particularly Hope students) and is quite content to again call Holland her hometown.

In the summer of 2011 Kate began pursuing her Doctor of Ministry at Duke Divinity school. The program is focused on "Christian Leadership" and after completed her coursework, she hopes to write her thesis around themes of reconciliation, social media and the leadership development of millennials.

 

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