Donna joined CPT as a reservist in 2002, serving on the team in Hebron, Palestine.
While not on team, she works with the Episcopal Peace Fellowship as part of the Israel/Palestine action group, writes a column for her diocesan newspaper, the North Carolina Disciple, and is part of the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham (North Carolina). Donna lives in Durham, NC.

 

Jan trained with CPT in January 2005. She initially joined as a part-time CPTer, but changed to full time in July 2006. She spent six weeks in Baghdad with CPT in summer 2005, and three months in the Kurdish north of Iraq at the end of 2006. She has been a member of CPT's Hebron team since December 2006.

Jan lives in Scotland (when she is not in Hebron) but is prepared to travel anywhere in the UK (or beyond!) if travel expenses can be covered.

Joel Gulledge is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine. Joel grew up in Bruce, Mississippi, and was constantly active as a youth with the Southern Baptist Church until college. During that time Joel volunteered in shelters for homeless and battered women, and in the summer of 1999 worked with the North American Mission Board in an outreach program for youth in Northborough, Massachusetts.

Kathleen O'Malley is a psychotherapist practicing in Albuquerque, NM who also does international peace work with CPT with whom she has traveled to Irag and Palestine. In 2007 she traveled to Iran as part of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She leads non violence trainings to groups interested in exploring responses to internal violence as well as in the world around us. As a psychologist one of her areas of experience is working with people who have suffered trauma. She has also facilitated critical incident debriefing sessions.

 

 

I am a CPT Reservist (part-time worker) in my early 40s, a member of the Toronto Catholic Worker community, and a queer activist.

 

Where have you worked with CPT?

Chiapas (Mexico), Burnt Church (Esgenoopetitj, Canada), Colombia, Palestine, Anishnabe territory (Canada)

 

How did you get involved?

Mary Yoder made her first trip to Israel/Palestine in 2002 with a Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation. She then took an intense four week training course on Christian non-violence through CPT. She returned to the West Bank as a volunteer member of CPT's violence reduction team where she served for three months on two subsequent visits. She remains active with peace work in her local community where she is employed as a Registered Nurse.

Jerry Stein is a retired Catholic pastor, having pastored mostly rural churches. He was a college chaplain for two years each at Colorado State University and St. Mary of the Plains College. Jerry served six years at St. Francis of Assisi parish near Amarillo, which includes Pantex, where all US nuclear weapons are assembled. He has been on the Peace Farm Board, which owns property across from Pantex since near its beginning in 1986. Jerry has been involved in ecumenical affairs for many years in Kansas and Texas.

Jim is a long-time pastor in the Mennonite Church. He was a high school teacher for ten years before entering seminary and pastoring. His interest in peace and justice issues was peaked after a visit to the Holy Land in the summer of 1998. He went on a delegation to Israel/Palestine with CPT in November of 2000. He became a reservist (part-timer) with CPT in January of 2002. His interest is in practicing violence-resistance in non-violent confrontation with those who perpetuate the use of violence as the means to create peace.

Carol is the Co-Director of CPT, a poet, and pastor. Carol was part of the formation of the Colombia project who regularly served on that project until becoming Co-Director. Since that time she has also served on site in Iraq , Palestine , Arizona and Kenora. She is the facilitator/presenter for the Biblical Non-violence portion of the CPT Core Training. An active peacemaker since the late 1970's. Carol worked with Mennonite Voluntary Service with refugees from Central America in Dallas , Texas in the early 1980's.