the Gospel and Our Culture Network

    Jeanette joined the GOCN team in the summer of 2008 to provide basic office support, look after the website, and help congregations make use of Missional Discovery, the GOCN's newly developed tools for helping congregations assess their "patterns in missional faithfulness." She has been the director of Western's Master of Theology program for a number of years.

Judy Bos, Administrative Associate Emerita

In February 2008, Judy concluded fourteen years of faithful service to this always awkward, sometimes bewildering, but ultimately vital thing called a network. A sister to all of us (and when necessary, a mother!), she served with grace in the variety of roles she filled. She managed arrangements for meetings of all kinds, found great restaurants, registered people for conferences, talked with virtually everyone associated with the network by phone or email, managed the flow of information (or created some when the need arose), prayed and wrestled with us all about the calling of God, gave moral support to everyone when the work was hard and long, and on occasion refereed a fight or two! She is deeply committed to the network's mission, and knows more people in the network than anyone!

Michael Barram, Missional Hermeneutic Project Coordinator

     Michael teaches New Testament at St. Mary's College, Berkeley, CA. With a team of others, he coordinates this project to explore the difference it makes when the Scriptures are approached in the way of missional vision and practice. In particular, they guide the process of annual reflections at the AAR and SBL academic venues. (On the AAR side, Jeff Greenman, an academic dean at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, helps coordinate the annual meeting.)

Other Coordinating Team members include:

• Lois Barrett, seminary professor and administrator
• Jody Betten, pastor
• James Brownson, seminary professor
• Wally Hobbs, university professor, retired
• Doug Pagitt, pastor and author