2012 Daily Devotional Advent Calendar

  • Vanessa Michael is Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for INERELA+, the International Network of Religious Leaders Living with and Affected by HIV and AIDS. INERELA+ envisions a world where HIV and AIDS related stigma, infections and deaths are eliminated.
  • Rev. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel is President of Bread for the World in Berlin, Germany.
  • Karen Sichinga is Executive Director of the Churches Health Association of Zambia, an interdenominational umbrella organization encompassing 146 Zambian church-based health institutions and community-based organizations.
  • Christine Mangale is Program Coordinator for the Lutheran Office for World Community, which represents two EAA members – the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran World Federation - at the United Nations in New York.
  • Alphinus Kambodji is HIV and AIDS Consultant for the Christian Conference of Asia, an ecumenical movement of 100 member churches and 17 national councils.
  • Steve Sjöquist is Deacon in Sankt Mikael’s Parish, Huddinge, part of the Church of Sweden.
  • Kate McQuillan and Finola Finnan work as Church Officer and HIV Programme Leader respectively for Trócaire, the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
  • Grace Wambui volunteers for the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN) HIV Care and Treatment Programme. EPN is a worldwide network of associations, institutions, and individuals, committed to supporting the provision of quality, affordable medicines and pharmaceutical services in church health facilities.
  • Karen Moul is Communication Officer for Global Health and HIV at Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.
  • Reverend Peter Hage is Board Chairman of Australian Lutheran World Service, the overseas aid and resettlement agency of the Lutheran Church of Australia.
  • Prof. Edison Muhindo Kalengyo is a Theology Consultant at the All Africa Conference of Churches, a fellowship of 174 Churches and Christian organizations with about 120 million Christians in 41 African nations.
  • Romulo Dantes is Executive Secretary for Youth Empowerment at the World Alliance of YMCAs, a global ecumenical movement reaching 58 million people in 119 countries worldwide and working to bring social justice to all young people, regardless of religion, race, gender or culture.
  • Rev. Dr. Karin Achtelstetter is General Secretary for the World Association for Christian Communication , an international organization with over 1,570 corporate and personal members and affiliates in 103 countries.
  • Rev. N. Joshua Jayaseelan is the former Programme Co-ordinator on HIV and AIDS for the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS), an ecumenical organization working among the urban poor in Chennai, India, for the past 45 years.
  • Hannu Happonen is the HIV & AIDS Competence Training Facilitator for CUAHA, an ecumenical network uniting 40 churches of different denominations in Eastern and Southern Africa by creating a shared commitment to HIV and AIDS issues.
  • Rev. Siyani Zimba is Channels of Hope Technical Advisor in the Southern Africa Region for World Vision International, a partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.
  • The Rev. Laura Kavanagh is a committee member of Presbyterian World Service and Development, the development and relief agency of The Presbyterian Church in Canada.
  • Rev. Sanan Wutti is Director of The Church of Christ in Thailand AIDS Ministry (CAM) based in northern Thailand. CAM has been providing education and home-based care for people living with HIV for the past 20 years.
  • Johannes Maertens works for Solidarité Protestante, a Belgian NGO active in Central Africa, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
  • Henk Jochemsen is Director of Prisma, an association of Dutch Christian organizations engaged in international diaconal work and development cooperation.
  • Rev. Sunil Raj Philip is Executive Secretary for the Commission on Dalits of the National Council of Churches in India, a 100 year-old ecumenical platform for 30 Protestant and Orthodox churches.
  • Luz Stella Losada is Community Health Specialist for MAP International, a global Christian health organization that partners with people living in conditions of poverty to save lives and develop healthier families and communities.
  • Suzanne Rumsey is the Public Engagement Program Coordinator for The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), the Canadian Anglican response for emergency relief, refugees, development and justice.
  • Ana Villanueva is Executive Coordinator for the World YWCA, an international Christian women’s organization working for a fully inclusive world where justice, peace, health, human dignity, freedom and care for the environment are promoted and sustained by women’s leadership.
  • Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo is Head of the Caritas Internationalis Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva. Caritas Intertionalis is a confederation of 164 national Catholic Church-inspired, humanitarian assistance, social service, development, and advocacy organizations working in 200 countries and territories of the world.
  • Dr Asomba Tobias is CEO of the Christian Community Health Care Foundation (COHECF), a not for profit organization based in the Cameroon.
  • Reverend Michael Schuenemeyer is Executive Director of the United Church of Christ HIV & AIDS Network (UCAN). UCAN is network of people, congregations and organizations within and beyond the United Church of Christ for care giving, education and prevention in response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
  • Beryl Logan coordinates the HIV and AIDS Desk of the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India, a communion of 11 Lutheran churches.
  • Galia Kutranova is the Country Representative for Russia for Tearfund, a Christian relief and development agency building a global network of local churches to help eradicate poverty.
  • Ms. Darlene Marquez-Caramanzana is Program Secretary for the Program Unit on Ecumenical Education and Nurture of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, an ecumenical fellowship of mainline Protestant and non-Roman Catholic Churches in the Philippines.
  • Rev. Dr Kati Kemppainen is Executive Secretary for Mission Education at The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM), a mission organisation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
  • Lyn van Rooyen is Executive Director of CABSA, the Christian AIDS Bureau for Southern Africa, based in South Africa. CABSA guides and supports faith communities to understand the HI-virus and the HIV epidemic, to hear God’s calling in the epidemic, and to respond as HIV-competent faith communities.
  • Addisalem Befekadu is Programme Coordinator for Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) in Ethiopia. NCA is an ecumenical, diaconal and humanitarian organization that works for a just world in more than 30 countries.
  • Marjorie Clark is the Coordinator of the Church of Scotland HIV Programme , which supports local churches as they respond to HIV in Scotland and around the world.
  • Weston Seyama, Programme Manager, Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD) a Humanitarian church based organization in Malawi with a vision of a more proactive and resilient society.
  • Brittany L. Browne is an Advocacy & Solidarity Officer for the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), Inter-Regional Office in Geneva, Switzerland. WSCF is a federation of 107 national Christian student groups committed to dialogue, ecumenism, social justice, and peace.
  • Rev. Yusuf I. Wushishi is General Secretary of the Christian Council of Nigeria, a fellowship of churches working together to promote the glory of God.