Dr Natalie Lin

Dr Natalie Lin attributes her deep faith to her humble Christian upbringing and aspires to serve God wherever and whenever she can.

Having served in various educational institutions all her working life, she dedicates her time amongst various ministries concerning children and youth education, the woman ministry, theological education, and mission and ecumenical ministries.

Mr James Ronnie Kaboke

James Ronnie Kaboke is a member of the United Church in Solomon Islands.

A lawyer by profession, he currently serves as the Legal Advisor to the United Church of Solomon Islands Board and Assembly.

Ms Afika Babazile Rwayi

Afika Babazile Rwayi is a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa.

She now dedicates her time in ecumenical work, contributing her passion and skills to organisations such as the AACC Youth Network, Africa Communion of Reformed Churches, and the UPCSA Fellowship of Youth and Youth Desk.

Rev. Anthony Chung

Rev. Anthony Chung is an Ordained Minister within the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) since 2000. He currently serves as Pastor for the Ridgemount Charge of Churches in Mandeville, Jamaica.

He has been involved in past CWM projects such as hosting participants during the 2005 and 2006 iterations of A New Face Programme and was a participant himself during the 2007 Community Development Workshop in Botswana.

Mr Trevor Liewellyn Benn

Trevor Llewellyn Benn is currently a land governance and management consultant and a former International Civil Servant and Development Practitioner.

Benn has also served as Guyana’s focal point to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). In this role, he served as Vice-Chairperson of the UNCCD Conference of the Parties (CoP) Bureau, the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole (COW) 2019 and Chairperson for the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC) 2019 to 2021.

Rev. Chipasha Musaba

With almost three decades of experience in ordained ministry since 1995, Rev. Musaba’s mercurial sense of leadership is unquestionable whether it be in congregational pastoral ministry, full-time administrative roles or in key leadership roles such as a Presbytery Bishop and General Secretary.

Rev. Musaba has worked as a lecturer at the United Church of Zambia University from 2017 to 2020 while also chairing the Kitwe District Ecumenical Committee from 2014 to 2021.

He has also served as the Mayoral Chaplain for the Kitwe City Council.

Elder Lim Kar Hor

Elder Lim Kar Hor is the General Secretary of Gereja Presbyterian Malaysia (GPM) and the Elder of his local church.

Elder Lim is also working in collaboration with CWM to enhance the holistic development of GPM’s indigenous congregations under the church’s “Church Without Walls” plan.

Beyond GPM, Elder Lim is serving with Seminari Theologi Malaysia (STM) as a Council and Exco Member, and as Honorary Secretary on the Board of Trustees and Personnel Committee.

He also sits on the Board of Management within the Council of Churches Malaysia.

Prior to his current roles, Elder Lim was a trained engineer and consultant, and a certified industrial standards auditor.

Rev. Dylan Rhys Parry

Rev. Dylan Rhys Parry is a minister in Bridgend and Porthcawl with the Union of Welsh Independents (UWI) since June 2021. He is the current UWI’s AMM representative.

A long-time partner with CWM for almost 15 years, Rev. Parry started as a youth representative in CWM Europe’s youth programme in Hungary in 2009, and in 2011 was a Training-in-Mission student in South Africa and India.

Ms Mina Tupu Saifoloi

Mina Tupu Saifoloi serves with her husband in a Congregational Christian Church in American Samoa (CCCAS) Parish in Amaluia for more than 25 years.

She also dedicates her time as the Chairperson for the Elders Clergy Wives’ Committee for CCCAS.

Rev. Sunil Mankhin

Rev. Sunil Mankhin is the Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh, and Secretary of the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans.

Mankhin was a graduate from the University of Dhaka and holds a Bachelor of Divinity from Bishop’s College, Kolkata, India.

Ms Zodinpuii

Zodinpuii is a member of the Presbyterian Church of India, Mizoram Synod. She holds a postgraduate degree in Counselling Psychology, and is currently employed as a counsellor.

Mrs Sarah Phua

Sarah Phua is a member of the Board of Directors representing Singapore. She is currently serving her second term in her directorate.

Phua is employed as a teacher in a local school.

Rev. Dr Wonbin Park

Rev. Dr Wonbin Park is the senior pastor of Yaksu Presbyterian Church for the past nine years. As a senior pastor, he is tasked to establish both a healthy ecumenical faith in the PCK as well as with other global ecumenical bodies.

Park received his doctorate from Boston University, focusing on religiosity in postmodern society, focusing on philosophy of religion and ethics.

During his years as an academic, Park has published various books and papers on Emmanuel Levinas, Kierkegaard, and the Holocaust.

Rev. François, Opura Pihaatae

Rev. François Opura Pihaatae is an ordained minister of the Etārētia Porotetani Māòhi (EPM), French Polynesia.

After his ordination in 1993, he served as a parish minister until 2009 when he moved to Fiji as a resource person to work at the Pacific Conference of Churches.

After a leadership stint at the World Council of Churches Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) in 2005, he served as a member of the Commission of Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches (CCIA) 2013 – 2021 and a member of the Program Reference Group of CWM from 2016.

In the EPM Synod in July 2019 and September 2023, Pihaatae was elected as President of the church and in September 2022, he was elected as the Pacific’s President in the World Council of Churches.

Rev. Kudzani Ndebele

Rev. Kudzani Ndebele is the current General Secretary of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA).

A former Executive Director of the Kuruman Moffat Mission (NPC), Ndebele was recently appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Moffat Mission Investments (PTY) Ltd.