Lisa is a Spiritual Director and Writer-in-Residence at George Fox University.  She describes herself as a farmer, Quaker, tender of plants and animals, and goat milk soap maker, whose job is to love God's Creation—to laugh, hope, nurture, and mostly, to pay attention. She and her husband, Mark, attend North Valley Friends Church and live at Fern Creek, a small farm outside of Newberg, Oregon, where they write, tend hens, goats, and grow berries, tree fruit, and vegetables. Her current book project is co-authored with Mark and tentatively titled Slow: Reclaiming the Quiet Virtues. They have three daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren.

Sussie Ndanyi is a current scholar in Master of Divinity studies at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Nairobi. Sussie gives attention to policy formulation and governance process, having served as the first female Administrative Secretary of Friends Church (Quakers) Nairobi Yearly Meeting in Kenya. Her extensive experience in ecumenical settings enables her to be a voice of the voiceless. Sussie is inspired daily by the United Society of Friends Women, who have grounded her spirituality.

Pam was born and raised in southwestern Idaho. Her grandparents were part of Northwest Yearly Meeting and lived their Quaker witness so faithfully that she determined to follow their example. Pam graduated from Greenleaf Friends Academy, Friends Bible College in Kansas, and Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho.  
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Ron grew up in central Kansas and, from early childhood, was part of MidAmerica Yearly Meeting. He received his college education from Friends University and Friends Bible College in Kansas and Boise State University in Idaho.  
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Since their marriage, Pam and Ron have served as Friends youth ministers for two years and co-pastors for three years in Idaho, as Friends co-pastors in Kansas for six years, and in their current assignment as co-pastors at Winchester Friends in Indiana (FUM) for the past twenty-three years. In between those pastorates, they spent three years as Mennonite Central Committee community development workers in a UN refugee project in southern Sudan, over six years as MCC’s country directors in Uganda, and six months as MCC traveling “storytellers” across the US and Canada.
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In addition to her current pastoral role, Pam participates in ministry for women inmates at her county’s jail. She is the board secretary and the volunteer manager of her county’s food pantry and serves on the board of directors for Friends Fellowship Community, a senior living center. For twenty years, she has served on the General Committee and standing committees of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.  
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Ron served in the early 1990s as a death row spiritual advisor for two years for an Idaho inmate. After moving to Indiana in the late 90s, he became the de facto chaplain for the county jail until the pandemic suspended that weekly program. He assists Pam with the management of the county’s food pantry. For twenty years, Ron has served on Friends Committee on National Legislation’s General Committee and its standing committees. He was FCNL’s General Committee clerk in 2020 and 2021 and is completing that rotation as the assistant clerk in 2022.