Tag: Person

Amanda Couch

I’m definitely a dog person, will eat anything covered in cheese, I loudly listen to at least one 80’s power ballad a day, my mom taught me how to cook and my dad taught me how to cook without using a recipe, and I have cried during multiple episodes of MasterChef Junior. People are often surprised to find out that I have an extreme irrational fear of squids and octopus. I’m excited about The Zoe Project because when I was growing up, my youth group was very important to me and gave me a lot of opportunities to try new things and meet great new people. I would the love to be able to help and give back to the church and youth program that gave me so much.

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Ray Hopkins

I am a dog loving, sarcasm using, youth directing, number crunching, tech loving, pop culture devouring, road race running, and 20 year life partner to my wife Deena. People are often surprised to find out that I have had 3 careers before I was 36. I’m excited about the Zoe Project because we have the real opportunity to build a way in for young adults and be a part of something bigger than any one faith community nationwide.

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Vanessa Fry

I am from Long Island, NY, and am currently entering my senior year at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia on track for ordination in the ELCA. People are often surprised to find out I received my BS in Business Administration, but I believe my undergraduate education is extremely applicable in a ministry context, setting me up to think differently than most leaders in the church. I’m excited about The Zoe Project because as a young adult, I know my peers are the future of the church, and yet I find myself in the minority in worship as a millennial.

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Dan Potaznick

I am from Long Island, NY, and am currently entering my senior year at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia on track for ordination in the ELCA. People are often surprised to find out I received my BS in Business Administration, but I believe my undergraduate education is extremely applicable in a ministry context, setting me up to think differently than most leaders in the church. I’m excited about The Zoe Project because as a young adult, I know my peers are the future of the church, and yet I find myself in the minority in worship as a millennial.

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Rev. Keith Anderson

I’ve been a parish pastor for 13 years, married for 17, have four kids and a golden retriever named Charlie, and I love to write, use digital technology for ministry, and travel. People are often surprised to find out that I felt called to ministry when I was 17 and although I’m a Lutheran pastor and was raised Lutheran, have attended and served in Pentecostal, Episcopal, Methodist, and non-denominational churches, and my wife, Jenny, is Jewish. I’m excited about The Zoe Project because the church needs to learn from young adults about how to share the Gospel today in authentic, resonate, and life-transforming ways.

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Michael Cuppett

Michael is a native of St. Louis, MO, and is a M.Div/MACEF student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Michael is a graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, and works at the intersection of faith, design, and technology. Professionally, Michael has served with Ministry Architects consulting, the Montreat College Conference, and a variety of congregations throughout Tennessee and New Jersey. Alongside being the Zoe Project’s website administrator, Michael currently works with Evolving Faith as a designer.

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Kelsey Holdermann

Kelsey Holderman is a current student at Princeton Theological Seminary, seeking degrees in Divinity and Christian Education Formation. Formerly from Columbus, Ohio, she spent her past life studying education and teaching Math and Science to 7th grade students, and has since moved into the world of youth ministry!

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Katherine Douglass

Katherine is an ordained teaching elder in the PC(USA) and is Assistant Professor of Ministry at Seattle Pacific University. Katie also directs The Confirmation Project, an ecumenical study of the confirmation and equivalent practices in five denominations practicing baptism in the United States. Katie and her husband John and their three young sons live in awe of the outdoors in Seattle.

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Kenda Creasy Dean

Kenda is an ordained United Methodist pastor and the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary.

She is the author of numerous books on faith and young people, including Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church; The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending in Youth Ministry; and, most recently, Under the Dragon Scales: Restoring Joy to Youth Ministry, with Wesley Ellis, Justin Forbes, and Abigail Visco Rusert.

A graduate of Miami University (Ohio) and Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, DC), Kenda served as a pastor and campus minister in the DC suburbs and New Jersey, and co-founded (with Mark DeVries) a consulting and education group that promotes missional innovation. Kenda and her husband Kevin’s two children have “grown and flown,” so they now borrow the neighbors’ kids for the fun stuff.

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Trey Wince

During his years of church leading, planting, consulting, and pastoring, Trey has remained convinced that high impact churches are really just churches who know how to take care of the little stuff first. He has served as pastor of Kingston UMC, College Director (serving students at Vanderbilt, Belmont and Lipscomb Universities), Director of Young Adult Ministries at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville and international missions coordinator with Joshua Expeditions.

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The Zoe Project was funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc, and is headquartered at Princeton Theological Seminary.