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"The team at CPR came to us when we were truly at a crossroads. Other efforts of revitalizing our small congregation had felt like "trial and error" -- mostly error. With practical advice on worship excellence, branding and stewardship, CPR helped us find our voice as a boldly progressive congregation. Over the past six months our worship attendance has grown by 25%. We still have much work to do, but now we can envision a future with hope."

Rev. Ann Ralosky
Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, Montclair, NJ.

	Coy James Senior Consultant Coy James has spent almost 30 years in volunteer and lay-staff leadership at the Cathedral of Hope UCC in Dallas Texas during a period of extraordinary growth. In the corporate world he had a 20-year professional career in Communication and Instructional Design at Abbott Laboratories. He can use this experience and his knowledge about best practices in Branding, Communication, Stewardship and Strategic Planning to make a positive difference for your church. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Lisa Depaz Senior Consultant Lisa is the pastor of the Hispanic Community Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston, a new church founded in 2001 by Lisa and her husband Cesar, at which Lisa has focused on the spiritual and numerical growth of the church in order to become a multiplying church. Since then, they have started four more churches in Massachusetts. Lisa also has served as the women's representative and interim president of the UCC Council of Hispanic Ministries, and currently is president of the New England region. She also has served on a variety of committees within the Massachusetts Conference. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	William McKinney Senior Consultant Bill spent 14 years as president of Pacific School of Religion, 11 years as dean at Hartford Seminary, and 11 years as the national research director for the United Church of Christ’s Board for Homeland Ministries. His academic training is in Sociology of Religion and American Religious History, and he is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Read Bill's Blog here. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Michael Piazza Senior Consultant Rev. Piazza served as the senior pastor of the Cathedral of Hope during a time of unprecedented growth. When he arrived in Dallas in 1987, the church had 280 members and a budget of $280,000. When he retired to become Dean of the Cathedral, the church's membership was more than 3,500, with a consolidated budget of more than $3 million. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Ken Samuel Senior Consultant Ken organized the Victory for the World Church in March of 1987. Victory for the World has dual standing as an Independent Baptist Church and an active congregation of the United Church of Christ. Situated in a growing eastern suburb of Atlanta called Stone Mountain, the Victory Church seeks to address the total needs of the total person through a broad array of ministries and services which promote the spiritual development, educational enhancement, physical fitness and social empowerment of every child of God – regardless of race, gender, culture, class or sexual orientation. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Glenna Shepherd Senior Consultant Glenna has served as senior minister of two congregations, as a church planter, music minister, interim minister, and, prior to coming to the UCC, as the equivalent of a conference minister for Metropolitan Community Churches, where she worked with congregations in Europe and Africa. She has developed resources for both church growth and worship training. Presently, she is Senior Minister of Decatur United Church of Christ in Decatur, Georgia. Additionally, her ministry includes coaching and consulting for CPR. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	Cameron Trimble Senior Consultant Rev. Cameron Trimble is the Executive Director of the Center for Progressive Renewal. She most recently served as an advisor to the Congregational Vitality and Discipleship Team of Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ and as Associate Conference Minister of Church Development in the Southeast Conference of the UCC. She works with almost every new church in the United Church of Christ and many new churches in other mainline denominations. She is the co-author of the book, Liberating Hope: Daring to Renew the Mainline Church. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Today, many of our mainline churches are declining and in need of intentional revitalization. These churches were built in and for an age that has now passed away.  They are good, strong churches who have served their communities faithfully.  But they were designed to serve a world that no longer exists. We believe that many churches can make the transition into this new age.  CPR Congregational Consultants are passionate about coaching your church towards new life in an age of social networking, shifting demographics and declining attendance.

If your congregation is seeking new life, connect with us today.

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Donna E. Allen
New Church Consultant

Donna is a native of East Orange, New Jersey. From her youth, she has been active in the Baptist, Lutheran and Methodist church traditions. She has sought preparation in ministry through her education, which includes a Bachelor of Science (BS) from Seton Hall University; Masters of Divinity (MDiv) from Vanderbilt Divinity School, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with a concentration in homiletics and church history, also from Vanderbilt. Her dissertation title was "Toward A Womanist Homiletic: Katie Cannon, Alice Walker and Emancipatory Proclamation."

Teresa Angle-Young
New Church Consultant

Teresa Angle-Young is a United Methodist Elder in the North Georgia Conference and the founding planter/pastor of Sacred Tapestry UMC in Marietta, Georgia.  She is a graduate of Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and is currently completing her Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching at Aquinas School of Theology in St. Louis, MO. Angle-Young specializes in coaching church planters, preachers, issues around clergy wellness and life balance, clergy burn out, conflict resolution, relationships and couples coaching, work/career challenges, and many other areas. Angle-Young is one of only 18 endorsed Life Coaches in the United Methodist system in the United States.  She is a contributing author of Ministry 3.0: How Today's Church Leaders are Using Coaching to Transform Ministry and the upcoming book Stressless Preaching: Getting to Sunday Without Losing Your Religion and a contributor to many publications.  She does group coaching, individual coaching, and executive coaching.  Angle-Young is also a speaker, retreat and seminar leader, and teaches Church Planting 1.0 and Preaching to Postmoderns for The Center for Progressive Renewal and Church MD.

Hojung Chang
Consultant for Korean Ministries

Hojung is a missionary. He was raised in presbyterian church in South Korea, ordained 1988 and sent by Kyung-Ki Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) which overseas ecumenical partner of UCC to Connecticut Conference. He is a church founder, has experience as missionary in East Asian countries, while missionary work established several churches in different cultural setting and trained church developers. Established Korean churches in Connecticut 1999. Serving Storrs Korean Church and First Korean UCC. Has variety experience of various Asian cultures and churches.

Kimberly Knight

Kimberly Knight recently received her Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She graduated from Georgia State University with a BA in Religious Studies.  Prior to seminary she worked nearly five years as a public school activist in the city of Atlanta.  She brings to The Center for Progressive Renewal more than fifteen years of experience across a broad spectrum of technology settings including multimedia production and instructional technology. She currently serves as the pastor of an online congregation that has been gathering for two years in the cyber-world of Second Life. Kimberly, her partner and their two children are active members of Kirkwood United Church of Christ in Atlanta, Georgia.

Susan Mitchell
Church Building & Loan Fund Consultant

Susan was the co-pastor of a new church start, Sankofa UCC, in Atlanta, GA and now serves with the Church Building and Loan Fund in Cleveland, OH. Susan began her ministry as a Christian educator, and, after some years, felt God's call to plant a church in Atlanta. Once a member of Trinity UCC in Chicago, she took her insights and learning from that context and has helped build a thriving new church in the South.