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Hanne Kuhnert (she/her) is a graduate of the University of Waterloo having earned a BA in Psychology and Business. Kuhnert completed a Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. at Conrad Grebel University College and was selected as the Undergraduate Valedictorian for the Federated school. Kuhnert serves on the Eastern Synod (ELCIC) Racial Justice Advisory Committee, and is a trained Facilitator for  Community Conversations on Racism. She is a long-standing participant in the Haldimand Tract Ecumenical Partnership with Six Nations Polytechnic (since 2015) and lives in the Haldimand Tract in the Traditional Territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabe and Attawandaron/Chonnonton peoples. Kuhnert was a participant in the week-long On-Reserve Young Adult Program called Stronger Together in 2017. She began as a volunteer and became a young adult leader in the Music for the Spirit Program at Ohsweken beginning in 2016. She was a counsellor at the 2024 Peacemaker's Camp summer camp program for children and youth at Trillium Waterloo in 2024. Kuhnert achieved her Certification in French-language Proficiency upon graduating from Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute. 

 Boston Laferté holds a BA in History and Indigenous Studies from the University of Victoria. He is currently studying law at UVIC in the joint degree program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders.  Laferté is a member of the Métis Nation of BC. He grew up in Treaty 8 territory near the town of Peace River, Alberta and moved to  the unceded lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən people (Victoria) in 2018, almost immediately after graduating high school. Boston is one of four elected Governing Board Youth Members for The Canadian Council of Churches. Laferté is an author for The Martlet, UVic's Independent Newspaper . He is perhaps best known across the country for  the Let's Talk Faith and Justice Podcast led by Boston Laferté and Rev. Lyndon Sayers, Multi-faith Chaplain and Co-Pastor of Lutheran Church of the Cross, Victoria available for free where podcasts are available. "The podcast explores topics of faith through the lens of justice, and topics of justice through the lens of faith. Both the hosts and guests bring their own unique life experiences and faith journeys to explore how the sometimes-conflicting worlds of faith and justice can intersect in deep and life-giving ways. It is with deep respect and gratitude that Let's Talk Faith and Justice is recorded and produced on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territories that include Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations."

 Rebecca Wong (she/her) is originally from Anishinabe territory (Ottawa). Her parents immigrated to Turtle Island from Malaysia; her mom is Bidayuh (an Indigenous people from the island of Borneo) and her dad is Hakka. Her identity has been an important factor that has shaped her academic and professional paths. She is currently in the world’s only transysstemic Indigenous Legal Orders and Canadian Common Law program at the University of Victoria. She previously completed her Masters of Science in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford and her Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She grew up at St. Peter’s congregation in Ottawa and is now an active member at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Victoria. In her spare time, she volunteers on the Board of Directors for two non-profits: Indigenous Youth Roots (a national Indigenous youth organization) and Luther Court (a community of care providing long term care and Assisted Living services to older adults). She also loves taking her 11 lb Yorkie, Hank, on beach walks with her husband, Ben. 

 Britney Jagnandan is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. She completed her Co-Op Program in Sociology & Honours Arts and Business specializing in Human Resources with a Management Minor in 2022. Jagnandan is the third generation of women to lead in the Lutheran Church world-wide. Her grandmother Felicia Heeralal was well-known in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Guyana, her mother Sharon Heeralal was Church Council President of Maranatha Lutheran Caribbean Congregation in Kitchener and Waterloo, and Britney was elected to serve two terms as an Officer of Church Council at St. James Lutheran Church in St. Jacobs before relocating to Mt. Zion Lutheran in Waterloo. During her Co-Op Program Britney served in Human Resources in a congregational setting and then as an Admissions Assistant at the University of Waterloo helping the university embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from a student's perspective. Beginning in 2019, Jagnandan was a Young Adult leader in the Hymn to Freedom Project (https://www.hymntofreedom.ca/) with the KW Congress of Black Women and the Canadian Caribbean Association of Waterloo Region to create a Canadian national song for Black History Month and the sharing of Black History as endorsed across the Canadian Federal Government.

Rev. Erik Parker was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. and graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in History and Theology before completing a Master of Divinity Degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary – Saskatoon. Pr. Erik is nearing the completion of his Doctoral Ministry Program at LTS while currently serving Sherwood Park Lutheran Church in Winnipeg.  Parker is known across Canada for the phrase "An iPhone pastor in a typewriter church" a catch phrase attached to his contributions to faith and life as "Blogger, Podcaster | High Church Lutheran | Husband & Dad | Oilers fan in exile | He/Him"  otherwise identified as The Millennial Pastor (https://millennialpastor.ca/about/ and as partner and colleague to Rev. Courtenay  @ReedmanParker . Parker travelled to Wittenberg with Gordon Jensen in the summer of 2024 and his insights into the teachings of Jensen and Luther in this Bible Study are most valuable, as are Parker's own contributions as can be read in articles such as https://millennialpastor.ca/2024/06/23/it-takes-a-community-to-raise-a-church-pastor-thoughts/

 Rev. Dr. (MD CCFP) Peter Kuhnert is a medical doctor as well as a commissioner on the WCC Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing. His undergraduate degree and medical school degree were completed at the University of Alberta before completing an MDiv. in Waterloo.. Kuhnert is an ELCIC Lutheran pastor and Co-Chair of the CCC Faith and Life Sciences Reference Group. Having been raised in Quebec and Alberta, before serving in the NWT and Ontario, Kuhnert brings diverse and multi-lingual Canadian experiences to his work for the CCC and WCC. He is also a congregational pastor having served Maranatha Lutheran Caribbean Congregation for 11 years and then supported diverse ministries in the Eastern Synod including teaching Confirmation at St. James in St. Jacobs, and leading Youth and Young Adult Groups to CLAY Thunder Bay (the Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth gathering of 800 persons in the MNO Synod and to the ELCA Youth Gathering in Detroit which involved 30,000 Lutheran Youth. Kuhnert is currently partners with Rev. Philip Mathai and leaders in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana in leading Continuing education Events for Clergy and Lay-leaders. Photo WCC/AlbinHillert

Gordon Jensen completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Alberta before completing his Master of Divinity Degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon and his Doctorate from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. Jensen is the author of three books and numerous articles, predominantly in the realm of Lutheran historical theology. His current work is The Call to Discipleship: Baptism, Vocation, and Community. In 2023 he published Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible Project, and in 2018 he released The Wittenberg Concord: Making Space for Dialogue. Jensen is the Emeritus William Hordern Chair in Theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, where he is currently serving as Acting President. A Festschrift in Jensen's honour was recently completed which included contributions from many Canadian Lutherans and also American colleagues Timothy J. Wengert and Martin J. Lohrmann as well as Robert Kolb who wrote the introduction to Experiencing Gospel.   

Rev. Karen Kuhnert earned a BAA in Recreation Administration Specializing in Community Development from the University of Alberta. She worked for several years at the Alberta Legislature before the Kuhnert's relocated to Inuvik, NWT, where the Kuhnert's co-owned and managed Arctic Family Medical House, Canada's most nothernly private medical clinic. In Inuvik the Kuhnert's became lay-leaders in Holy Cross Lutheran Church and the Anglican Church of the Ascension. It was in Inuvik that Karen began to participate in ecumenical Bible Study groups (groups with Lutheran, Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal members). This interest that has persisted. Kuhnert graduated from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in 2008 with an MDiv. She has a passion for Young Adult engagement and mutual learning. Her work with Gordon Jensen is the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Project connected he to the book Experiencing Gospel and her Consensus Journal Article that advances insights from Jensen's book relating to Reformation-era women and children in the creation of the 1534 Bible occupied much of the Spring of 2024. Photo WCC/AlbinHillert.