Greg Bolt • Posts
Greg is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education and a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is married with one daughter. He works at First Presbyterian Church in Bend, Oregon. He is ADHD and extroverted. He is also a type one diabetic and prefers stream of consciousness as opposed to well formed thoughts. He is running four races this year to raise $10,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association, follow his progress at @yearofmemories (on twitter) or yearofmemories.wordpress.com (blog).
Tyler Braun • Posts
Tyler is a worship pastor and seminarian from Portland, Oregon who runs 3 to 4 times a week. He is currently training for a half-marathon because a full just seems like too much torture. Tyler blogs at manofdepravity.com and tweets often (@tylerbraun).
Adam Copeland • Posts
Adam is a Mission Developer, writer, and pastor-type living in Moorhead, Minn. He’s run a few half marathons and limped through a full. After training runs in sub-zero temps, he playfully scoffs at southerners who complain of cold weather workouts. Adam blogs at A Wee Blether, works for The Project F-M, and tweets @ajc123.
Becky Durham • Posts
Becky is a wife, stepmother, and full time youth and children’s minister in Henderson, KY. She began taking her health seriously about two years ago and works out regularly at her local YMCA. She blogs about everything at beckydurham.net.
Kally Thompson Elliott • Posts
Kally is a mom, wife, friend, and Presbyterian minister in Knoxville, TN. When not chasing boys (her sons and husband), hanging with college students (she’s a campus minister), or hanging out with her fabulous friends, she enjoy running, working out, lifting weights, and hiking.
Bet Hannon • Posts
Bet Hannon is a United Church of Christ pastor who lives in Fresno, California with her wife of 25+ years and two teenaged daughters. Currently, she develops websites, email newsletters & social media for non-profit organizations. Bet was a band geek in high school and college, and didn’t really think about fitness or nutrition until a sabbatical in 2000, when she started running. She currently runs six to ten miles a week, and has run a few 5K’s. Mostly, she battles her own sloth to get out the door. Find her on Twitter @bethannon.
Ryan Kemp-Pappan • Posts
Ryan is a minister, LGBTQ advocate and spiritual director living in Louisville, KY with his wife, Meredith. Ryan is an avid runner and just completed the first Triple Crown of Running and is training for his first half-marathon. He was recently diagnosed with diabetes and is preparing to go the distance. Ryan writes occasionally on The Moped Diary & The Fettered Heart and is on Facebook & Twitter.
Katie Mathews Treadway • Posts
Katie is an out-of-shape pastor, mother, and wife living in NW Ohio with her husband, Bill, and her 2 daughters (4th and 6th graders). She is the solo pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Tiffin, and can also be found on Facebook.
Jeff Maxin • Posts
Jeff is a pediatric mental health worker living in Seattle Washington and nearly complete with the process of ordination in the PC(USA). His interests include cooking, exercise, science, thinking of new ways to do ministry, and figuring out how to live between the desire to be healthy and the desire to enjoy good beer. Jeff often rants about sports, science and faith @jeffreymaxin on Twitter.
A.J. Mealor • Posts
A.J. is a pastor, husband, and little league football coach. He lives in Warminster, PA with his wife, Katherine, and their three cats where he is a youth pastor at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church. He is an avid CrossFitter and Paleo Dieter. You can find A.J. on Twitter at @amealor63 and Facebook. You can also find A.J. on his blog where he writes about his obsession with gardening, youth football, and ministry at ajmealor.com.
Kate Morris • Posts
Originally from South Carolina, Kate is a hospice chaplain and parish associate living in Cedar Falls, IA with her husband, Dan. She loves to be outdoors and active, riding her bike, practicing yoga, or walking her dog, Samson. She blogs about the complex and tenuous interplay between the physical and spiritual dimensions of society at thighs and offerings and can also be found on Twitter (@thighsofferings).
John Mulholland • Posts
John has been working with middle school and high school kids in ministry since 1997. Since 2005, he’s been working with middle school and high school students at Eastview Christian Church Cedar Rapids Iowa. He is involved in his local youth ministry coalition, a member of SYMC’s Inside Track Team and has contributed to YouthMinistry.com. Currently a graduate student at Indiana Wesleyan University, he has been married for 19+ years and has three children. He’s been an outside runner for a bit more than 2 years now. I try for 20 miles per week, and will be running in Iowa’s Dam to Dam Run (12 miles) in June of 2011. Follow him on Twitter @xjm716, facebook.com/xjm716 and he blogs at xjm716.wordpress.com.
Steven Neal • Posts
Steven is a lay minister and youth worker in Hastings, NE and a future seminarian. He serves in the Army National Guard with the goal to become a Chaplain. He digs ruminating, gaming, Reddit, and cooking with his wife. Look him up on Twitter @y2.
Josh Rhone • Posts
Josh is a husband and father of two who serves as the pastor of the Mount Union Wesleyan Church in Mount Union, Pa. His love of running stems from a desire to be healthy enough to run and play with his kids without sucking wind. He can be found on Twitter (@joshrhone) and Facebook.
Lillian Smith • Posts
Lil is a Spiritual Director and currently serves as the Intern Pastor at St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church in Richardson, TX. She is also a wife, daughter, sister, mother of 3 children ages 16, 14, and 11 (yes, don’t count, she is way over 40!), friend, volunteer, tennis partner, neighbor, and all-around hand-lender, life is really busy. Life is not too busy, however, to ignore her health. She realized about ten years ago, if she remains healthy, she can do all of the things she loves to do. A healthy lifestyle is part of her ministry journey. She blogs about finding God in the clutter at PresbyLil.wordpress.com.
Bethany Stolle • Posts
Bethany is a resource designer, wife, church volunteer, group fitness instructor, and networker living with her husband, Brent, in Minneapolis. When she’s not developing youth ministry resources for sparkhouse, you may find her teaching yoga- and Pilates-based fitness classes, cooking, biking, reading, or spending time with her husband and friends. You can find Bethany on her blog and Twitter (@bethanystolle).
Seth Thomas • Posts
Seth is a campus ministry worker in Bellingham, WA. He serves college students at Western Washington University. He completed his first marathon this past fall. He reads, writes (www.goingliturgical.com), tweets (@sethjames), brews, and tries to maintain a good balance between life and ministry. Running helps with that a lot.
Adam Walker Cleaveland • Posts
Adam is a pastor, husband, blogger, social media consultant and networker. He lives in Livermore, CA with his wife Sarah and their perfect dog, Sadie. You can find Adam online at Pomomusings, Dazed Dad and at his professional site. He’s also on Twitter at @adamwc and on Facebook.
Sarah Walker Cleaveland • Posts
Sarah is a Spiritual Director and PhD student studying Christian Spirituality at the GTU in Berkeley, CA. When not studying, she can be found trying to convince her husband, Adam Walker Cleaveland, to recycle, be green and eat healthy. She also likes to walk her dog, Sadie. You can find Sarah on Twitter at @swalkerc.
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