Meet the Team

Jessica
Uhl
Coordination Team Lead
San Francisco, California

Joel
Aguilar
Director of Fellowship Programs
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Joel
Van Dyke
Network Development
Wyoming, Michigan

Kris
Rocke
Executive Director and Director of Seminary
Tacoma, Washington

Lina
Thompson
Preaching Peace Initiative
Seattle, Washington

Nic
Hughes
Director of Operations and Design Studio
Portland, Oregon

Sarah
Moore
Senior Fellow for Applied Research
Tacoma, Washington

James
Alison
Senior Fellow for Theological Formation
Spain

Elizabeth
Hirschl
Metrics and Evaluation Team
Tacoma, Washington

Justin
Mootz
Lectionary Resource Team
Tacoma Washington

Lana
Rocke
Administrative Support
Tacoma, Washington

Lyle
Enright
Street Psalms Press Team
Painesville, Ohio

Olivia
Sherry
Lectionary Resource and Coordination Team
Seattle, Washington
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 Psalms’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:

Preston
Adams
Gang Affected/System Affected Youth Specialist
Denver, Colorado

Annette
Aguilar
Ordained
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Joel
Aguilar
Director of Fellowship Programs, Street Psalms
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Kieawnie
Clar
Ordained
San Rafael, California

Scott
Dewey
Director of Communications, Mile High Ministries
Denver, Colorado

Kendall
Dooley
Co-founder, BLK South
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

Josh
Erickson
Director of Operations, Church at the Park
Salem, Oregon

Hultner
Estrada
Ordained
Managua, Nicaragua

Abhishek
Gier
Director, Catalyst Foundation
NEW DELHI, INDIA

Angelika
Gier
Hub Director, Catalyst Foundation
NEW DELHI, INDIA

Dwayne
Hilty
Director of Church as Neighborhood, Salem Leadership Foundation
SALEM, OREGON

Susan
Hudacek
Volunteer Coordination, L’Arche Tahoma Hope
TACOMA, WASHINGTON

Kristy
Humphreys
Program Operations Manager, World Vision
TACOMA, WASHINGTON

Jeff
Johnsen
Executive Director, Mile High Ministries
DENVER, COLORADO

Fred
Laceda
Professor of Contextual Theology, Penuel School of Theology
MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Jessica
Louwerse
Co-Director, Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

Josh
Louwerse
Senior Program Officer, Covenant House Alaska
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

Miriam
Medina Macias
Hub Director and Family Advocate, Mile High Ministries
DENVER, COLORADO

Linda
Martindale
Director, Third Way Communications
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Jimy
Martinez
Lead Pastor, Neighborhood Ministries
PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Mario
Matos
Executive Director, Center for Transforming Mission Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Tim
Merrill
Founder, Watu Moja, and Community Pastor
CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY

Gideon
Ochieng
Executive Director, Center For Transforming Mission Kenya
NAIROBI, KENYA

Esau
Oreso
Hub Director, Center For Transforming Mission Kenya
NAIROBI, KENYA

Ruben
Ortiz
Director of National Programs, Nueva Esperanza
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Paul
Patu
Co-Founder, Urban Family
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Kurt
Rietema
Senior Director, Youth Front
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS

Kris
Rocke
Executive Director, Street Psalms
TACOMA, WASHINGTON

Lana
Rocke
Critical Care Nurse and Administrative Support, Street Psalms
TACOMA, WASHINGTON

Ron
Ruthruff
Assoc. Professor of Theology and Culture, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Jenna
Smith
Head of Outreach and Engagement, Christian Direction
MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC, CANADA

Lina
Thompson
Senior Pastor, Lake Burien Presbyterian Church
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Patricia
Thompson
Executive Director, YES Foundation
WHITE CENTER, WASHINGTON

Joel
Van Dyke
Co-Pastor, Lee Street Christian Reformed Church
WYOMING, MICHIGAN

DJ
Vincent
Executive Director, Church at the Park
SALEM, OREGON

Jacynthe
Vaillancourt
Ministries Advancement Leader, Christian Direction
MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC, CANADA

Kenneth
Wallace Jr.
Ethnodoxologist and Worship Professor
LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA

Irene
Wanjiru
Head of High of Hope, Center For Transforming Mission Kenya
NAIROBI, KENYA

Chris
Williams
Hub Director, Neighborhood Ministries
PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Kristy
Roberts Farber
Board Chair
Pastor, Mercer Island Presbyterian Church

Mandla
Kaunda
Treasurer – Board Member
Tax Manager, Deloitte

Doug
Hostetter
Secretary – Board Member
Director of Photography

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

Jacob
Moody
Board Member
Chief Information Officer, Bargreen Ellingson

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

Mario
Matos
Board Member
Founding Director, CTM Dominican Republic

DJ
Vincent
Board Member
Executive Director, Church @ the Park
Since our inception in 1998, Street Psalms has formed more than 3,000 grassroots leaders through a highly inductive and experiential formational journey. Since 2019 we have offered more than 100 paid fellowships as well many more unpaid fellowships. These fellows represent a wide variety of vocations including organizational leaders, congregational leaders, community organizers, activists, teachers and preachers, as well as community health specialists of all kinds. All Fellows are committed to cultivating communities in mission with ways of seeing, doing and being that free them to create cities of peace for all people.