Our Mission:
Street Psalms is a community in mission that frees leaders from all walks of life to create cities of peace for all people.

What we value

Executive Director
Kris Rocke
Tacoma, WA

Senior Fellow for New Hub Development
Joel Van Dyke
Wyoming, Michigan

Senior Fellow for Formation
Lina Thompson
Seattle, WA

Associate Director of Operations
Kristy Humphreys
Tacoma, WA

Director Of Operations and Strategy
Nic Hughes
Portland, OR

Office Manager
Lana Rocke
Tacoma, WA

Program Metrics and Evaluation Lead
Elizabeth Hirschl
Tacoma, WA
Street Psalms Senior Fellows have dedicated their lives to freeing leaders to love and serve. Each Senior Fellow brings a particular gift and serves a relational network that extends the table of Street Psalms in their context, bridging more and more difference so that everyone belongs.
Senior Fellow
Executive Director of the Catalyst Leadership Foundation
Abhishek Gier
New Delhi, India
Senior Fellow
Director of Leadership Development at CTM Guatemala
Joel Aguilar
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Senior Fellow
Founding Director Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation
Justin Beene
Grand Rapids, MI
Senior Fellow
Founding Director at the Center for Transforming Mission (DR)
Mario Luis Matos
Dominican Republic
Senior Fellow
Associate Professor of Theology and Culture Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
Ron Ruthruff
Seattle, WA
Senior Fellow
Executive Director | The Leadership Center & Director | The Institute for Pastoral and Congregational Thriving at Portland Seminary
Trisha Welstad
Portland, OR

Board Chair
Kristy Roberts Farber
Pastor | Mercer Island Presbyterian Church

Treasurer – Board Member
Mandla Kaunda
Tax Manager | Deloitte

Secretary – Board Member
Doug Hostetter
Director of Photography

Board Member
Marti Little
Staff Attorney | Support Center for Child Advocates

Board Member
Jacob Moody
Chief Information Officer | Bargreen Ellingson

Board Member
Pat Thompson
Executive Director & Co-Founder | YES! Foundation

Board Member
Mario Matos
Founding Director | CTM Dominican Republic

Board Member
DJ Vincent
Executive Director | Church @ the Park

Mary Albert Darling
Mary teaches classes in communication and spirituality at Spring Arbor University (Spring Arbor, MI), including a course on spiritual formation and justice that took her to Guatemala for part of six summers. Mary is co-author with Tony Campolo of “The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice” and “Connecting Like Jesus: Practices for Healing, Teaching, and Preaching. She is a trained Enneagram instructor and Spiritual Director who has studied spiritual formation under Richard Foster and Dallas Willard.

Ben McBride
Ben McBride is a native of San Francisco, spiritual leader and longtime activist for peace and justice. In 2014 Ben launched the Empower Initiative as a consulting group to deliver leadership development to individuals and institutions.

María Isabel Mayorga
Marisa Mayorga is an Industrial engineer, MBA, wife and mother of two. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director at Fundación Gedeón, a Guatemalan non-profit created in 2013 whose mission is to provoke a cultural change in Guatemala by studying and questioning the cultural beliefs that have traditionally guided leaders and held back efforts of development in Guatemala. The special focus of this work is aimed at business and political leaders where in the goal is to examine and challenge the paradigms, beliefs and world-views of those who hold power. Marisa is a Fellow of the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI), and a member of the global leadership network at the Aspen Institute.

Tali Hairston
At SPU, Hairston contributes to the educational development of students, faculty, and staff in racial reconciliation, global urban leadership, and Christian community development. He is also an educator and public speaker, lecturing at SPU as well as Fuller Seminary’s Youth Institute. He also leads a profound “interpreting the city” program with Asbury Seminary and others.

Dave Hillis

Margarita Solis-Deal
Dedicated to the transformation of individuals, groups, and communities, Margarita specializes in developing programs and services for those seeking to deepen their spirituality through contemplative practices and experiences. She oversees a spirituality and retreat sacred space that is open to all faith traditions, practices radical hospitality, and offers an exploration of the intersection between spirituality, justice and mercy.

Joel Huyser
Before serving with Resonate Global Mission, Huyser was a trial attorney in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Joel helped found Nehemiah Center in Nicaragua where he lived from 1996 to 2013. The story of the Nehemiah Center is told in Carol Van Klompenberg’s book, “On Mended Wings: Transforming Lives and Communities in Nicaragua.”

Kit Danley
Danley’s work has spanned three decades with a newly developed 8 acre campus in the heart of downtown Phoenix. The Neighborhood Center is a hub where relationships with children, their families, and city-wide partners join together to make a difference for hundreds throughout the community. Neighborhood Ministries has been featured in magazines like “World,” “Christian Century,” and “Christianity Today.”

Scot Sherman
Scot Sherman is an Episcopal Priest, the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Church Innovation, an ecumenical ministry formed to strengthen and revitalize existing churches, and reimagine and support new expressions of church based in San Francisco, and a member of the consortial faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has taught courses in systematic theology, historical theology, ecumenical theology, the theology of mission, homiletics, and church planting.

James Alison
He has studied, lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and the United States as well as his native England. He is a Fellow of Imitatio and author of many books including The Joy of Being Wrong, on being liked and Jesus The Forgiving Victim. He is also the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. His principal claim to fame is his effort to bring the work of the French thinker, Rene Girard to the wider public.

Father Greg Boyle
Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world. They employs and train former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provide critical services to 15,000 men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life. Father Boyle is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.

Brad Smith
Smith has been with BGU.edu for 20 years serving as President and now Chancellor. He served as a legislative assistant to two U.S. Senators, planted an urban church near downtown Dallas, and served at Dallas Seminary developing spiritual formation programs. He also is the Director of the WEA Global Institute of Leadership facilitating teams who provide coaching and leadership training for National Alliances in 140+ nations.

Richard Beck
Richard Beck (PhD) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. During his teaching career, Richard has been honored twice as ACU Teacher of the Year. Richard has also been recognized as Honors Teacher of the Year and has won the College of Arts and Sciences Classroom Teaching award and Faith Integration award.
Outside of the classroom, Richard travels the world as a sought after speaker and an award-winning blogger and author.

Michael A. Mata
With Koreatown in Los Angeles as his base Michael for nearly four decades has designed and administered community and faith-based urban programs in both domestic and international contexts. He has integrated these experiences into his training, consulting and teaching, primarily in the areas of community transformation, leadership and community youth development.
The Street Psalms Community is a dispersed communion of Christ-centered leaders who see and celebrate good news in hard places. Enlivened by this gift, we are ordained to develop incarnational leaders according to the shape of our particular call and context. We do so as urban peacemakers and participants of Street Psalm’s mission.
We are called to nurture life-giving perspectives and practices guided by SP’s Incarnational Framework that sustains those who live and breathe good news in hard places. As witnesses of the Incarnation of Jesus, we seek peace and the underlying unity of all things – within the rich and sometimes challenging diversity of our own Community, as well as the diversity of our urban contexts. We are urban peacemakers who form and shape urban peacemakers in the power of the Incarnation. The Community is made up broadly of a network of friendships among women and men who profess to the way of life of Street Psalms:
Ordained
Annette Aguilar
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Ordained
Joel Aguilar
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Ordained
Scot Dewey
Denver, Colorado
Ordained
Hultner Estrada
Managua, Nicaragua
Ordained
Jeff Johnson
Denver, Colorado
Ordained
Susan Hudacek
Tacoma, Washington
Ordained
Fred Laceda
Manila, Philippines
Ordained
Jessica Louwerse
Anchorage, Alaska
Ordained
Josh Louwerse
Anchorage, Alaska
Ordained
Mario Matos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Ordained
Tim Merrill
Camden, New Jersey
Ordained
Gideon Ochieng
Nairobi, Kenya
Ordained
Esau Oreso
Nairobi, Kenya
Ordained
Ruben Ortiz
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained
Paul Patu
Seattle, Washington
Ordained
Kris Rocke
Tacoma, Washington
Ordained
Lana Rocke
Tacoma, Washington
Ordained
Ron Ruthruff
Seattle, Washington
Ordained
Jenna Smith
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Patricia Thompson
White Center, Washington
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Joel Van Dyke
Wyoming, Michigan
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Jacynthe Vaillancourt
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Ordained
DJ Vincent
Salem, Oregon
Ordained
Irene Wanjiru
Nairobi, Kenya
Ordained
Chris Williams
Phoenix, Arizona
Our fellows have come from all over the world, and represent a variety of backgrounds and fields including Executive Directors, Theologians, Entrepreneurs, Community Developers, Psychologists, and others.
Fellow
Fred Laceda
Manila, Philippines
Fellow
Imani Hall
Delaware County, PA
Fellow
Ivan Monzon
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fellow
Jordan Sampson
Tacoma, WA
Fellow
Josh Ericson
Salem, OR
Fellow
Margarita Solis-Deal
Philadelphia, PA
Fellow
Mark Bulgin
Salem, OR
Fellow
Nate Beene
Grand Rapids, MI
Fellow
Preston Adams
Denver, CO
Fellow
Susan Okamoto Lane
Seattle, WA
Fellow
Eloise Skinner
London, UK
Fellow
Dwayne Hilty
Salem, OR
Fellow
Andrés López
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fellow
Liesl Stewart
Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa
Fellow
Joel Ryman
Boise, ID
Fellow
Kieawnie Clar
San Rafael, CA
Fellow
Linda Martindale
Cape Town, South Africa
Fellow
Johonna McCants-Turner
Kitchener, Ontario
Fellow
Sean Robertson
Salem, OR
Fellow
Caroline Powell
Cape Town, South Africa
These hubs are the primary partners with whom Street Psalms collaborates to develop incarnational leaders in vulnerable urban communities. All UTC hubs are locally owned and led (with a dedicated hub director) and take a variety of forms. For example, some hubs are stand alone training organizations and other hubs are training departments embedded in a community based or city serving organization.
Each hub shares a common commitment to the Incarnational Training Framework that informs and shapes local, contextual training.
Together, training hubs form a global network of mutual support, co-creating formational opportunities for underserved grassroots leaders in vulnerable urban communities worldwide.




















Street Psalms is the managing partner of the global Urban Training Collaborative (UTC), in partnership with Leadership Foundations, Resonate Global Missions, and other organizations worldwide.






