Sarah Campbell has served as the Team Lead Minister at Mayflower Community Congregational Church (UCC) in Minneapolis since 2005. A graduate of Macalester College and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Sarah has also served churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Bemidji, Minnesota. She has worked as a campus minister and a community organizer. Sarah is a Fellow of the Fund for Theological Education and has lived and studied in Rome and Istanbul.

Under her leadership Mayflower Church partnered to build 30 units of workforce housing on its land; transformed the church’s pre-school into an all-day Early Childhood Center for mixed-income level participants; forged a powerful community-organizing relationship with ISAIAH as a leader congregation in the health care reform movement and refused to sign civil wedding licenses (at least until such a time as the state’s definition of marriage provides equal marriage rights for all).

Sarah can be reached at +01-612 824-0761 or scampbell@mayflowermpls.org.

Gilbert (Budd) Friend-Jones serves as the senior minister of The First Congregational Church (UCC) of Crystal Lake, IL in the Chicago area. He has  served parishes in Minnesota, Virginia, Georgia and Maine for more than 40 years, and has been active in interfaith organizing, education and travel for more than a decade. The author of two books, Budd completed his doctorate at the Divinity School 0f Howard University, and his M.Div at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Budd has led interfaith and Christian pilgrimages in Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar and Turkey. He has conducted workshops and preached in India, Russia, Ghana, Ukraine, Belarus and various European countries. Budd is a consultant to Kuşadasi-based Magical Steps Travel, which specializes in religious, cultural and dialogue travel in Turkey.

Journeys of Faith is a sabbatical project supported by the First Congregational Church of Crystal Lake, IL.

Budd can be reached at +01-224-623-9200 or buddfj@gmail.com.