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Meet the Participants
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Carol Barnwell
Communications Director, Diocese of Texas
Carol Barnwell is the Communications Director of the Diocese of Texas and serves its 160 congregations, overseeing the Website (http://www.epicenter.org/), advertising campaigns, and special projects in both print and video. She also serves as press officer for the diocese. Barnwell is president of the national Episcopal Communicator's group and is internationally active in communications for the Anglican Communion.
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Peggy Cleary
Member, St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, Washington
Peggy Cleary has a passion for helping people affected by AIDS. In 2000, she rode her bike across Alaska with a group raising money for AIDS vaccine research, with a focus on Africa. Peggy is a member of St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. She is married with two daughters. As a hobby, Peggy plays in a marimba group called the Mad Frogs, a group of eight women of varying ages and backgrounds.
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Diane Corlett
Rector, Church of the Nativity in Raleigh, North Carolina
The Rev. Diane Corlett is rector of Church of the Nativity in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her interest in the AIDS/Africa ministry in her parish was sparked after a visit from the brother of one of her parishioners, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Kamya, Bishop of the Diocese of West Buganda, Uganda, four years ago. Bishop Kamya spoke about the plight of young women and children in his diocese who were AIDS orphans and heads of households. For three years, Ms. Corlett’s parish has supported 57 girls in Uganda to pursue their education. Ms. Corlett is married and has one son.
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Maggie Geller
Deacon, Diocese of Massachusetts
The Rev. Maggie Geller is a nurse in the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital in Boston. She was recently ordained to the diaconate and serves as a deacon in a parish in Brockton in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Her new assignment with her diocese is to coordinate the mission strategy response to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Maggie has one daughter.
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Pam Payne
Chair of the Bishop’s Commission for HIV/AIDS Ministries, Diocese of Los Angeles
Pamela Payne works as a Woman’s Health Nurse Practitioner for a medical group in Pasadena, California, and teaches nursing at California State University in Los Angeles. Pamela is a member of St. Edmund’s parish in San Marino, California. She serves as Chair of the Bishop’s Commission for HIV/AIDS Ministries in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Pamela is married and has four very spoiled cats.
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Brian Sellers-Petersen
Staff / Trip facilitator, ERD
Since 2000, Brian Sellers-Petersen has been the ERD Operations Director for the West Coast, based in Seattle, Washington. Previously, he worked for World Vision, Bread for the World, and All Saints Parish in Pasadena, California. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a M.Th. from Fuller Seminary School of Theology, Brian spent five years in South Africa as a Missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth and as Regional Director of the Student Christian Association.
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How ERD is making a difference...
Countries
We lift communities out of poverty around the world in areas such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We partner with local organizations in the Anglican Communion to ensure vulnerable people have healthy food to eat and get proper health care.
Domestic
We provide critical supplies to people through local dioceses after natural and human-made disasters. We partner with the dioceses to get life-saving aid to children and their families and stay with communities after the crisis to provide ongoing support. |
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