GUEST SPEAKERS
While Pastor Drew takes a few weeks away from preaching to rest, vision, and pray for our community, we will be hearing from five guest speakers from September 6 - October 4. These speakers join us from different parts of the country, from California, to Texas, to right here in NYC, and each one of them is doing powerful Kingdom work! We are grateful to have them sharing their ministry with us! You won’t want to miss what God has to speak through them!
Erina Kim-Eubanks
September 6
Erina Kim-Eubanks is a 2nd generation Korean American who has worked at the intersection of faith, justice, and anti-racism for over 15 years. She has provided leadership in a variety of contexts, ranging from college campuses, to prisons, to middle schools, to churches. She currently serves as the co-pastor of Bethel Community Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in San Leandro, where she strives to cultivate a spiritual community of resistance and renewal that is faithful to the radical Way of Jesus.
Erina holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. She lives in San Leandro along with her husband Michael, and her daughters Amara and Jarena.
Dimetra Barrios
September 13
Dimetra Barrios is lead pastor of Legacy Brooklyn, a new church in Bedstuy. She is a Brooklyn native called to plant a church in the very community she grew up in. She holds a masters degree from Fuller Theological seminary in the study of theology. Most of her formal equipping apart from seminary comes from Redeemer City to City and Stadia Church Planting Network. She has two amazing children, Lea (13) and Justin (11).
Janna Louie
September 20
Janna Louie is an ordained American Baptist minister serving graduate students and faculty in Southern California. After growing up in Chicago and living in Nashville, she moved to Los Angeles to attend Fuller Theological Seminary. After completing her MDiv, she received the Parish Pulpit Fellowship and studied sociopolitical engagement through preaching in Southeast Asia. She is a second-generation Hong Kong American who enjoys running, cooking, and eating in her spare time.
Dr. Michelle Reyes
September 27
Dr. Michelle Reyes is the vice president of AACC as well as a church planter, pastor’s wife, author, speaker, and activist in Austin, TX. In 2014, Michelle and her husband co-planted Hope Community Church, a minority-led multicultural church that serves low-income and disadvantaged communities in East Austin. She also serves as the local CCDA Austin Networker. Michelle has a forthcoming book with Zondervan on cross-cultural relationships. Her writings on faith and culture have appeared in Christianity Today Women, ERLC, Missio Alliance, Faithfully Magazine, and Patheos, among other publications. She and her husband have two young kids aged four and one.
Rev. Kimberly Wright
October 4
Kimberly Wright is senior pastor of the Church of the Resurrection, in East Harlem, also known as “El Barrio” or Spanish Harlem, where she has been serving in ministry for twenty-seven years. Although the church had been established for more than three decades, through a unique set of circumstances, it became a Covenant church plant and joined the ECC in 2013. Learn more about Rev. Kim’s ministry in Harlem here.