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Interfaith Delegation to Afghanistan
"Sowing the Seeds of Peace"

Delegates:

Bishop Joseph Sprague, United Methodist Church, Northern Illinois Conference

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan

Dave Robinson, national coordinator of Pax Christi USA, Eerie, Pennsylvania

Iftekhar A. Hai, director of United Muslims of America Interfaith Alliance, San Francisco, California

Rev. Myrna Bethke, United Methodist Church, New Jersey.  Her brother William Bethske was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Sister Mary Pat White, RSCJ, campus minister in San Luis Obispo, California

Kathy Marie Bachman, World Church peace and justice minister for Community of Christ, Portland, Oregon

Marie Dennis, Director of Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Washington, D.C.

Mariam Momand, an Afghan American who is a board member of the Muslim Women's League in Los Angeles, California

Joanna Berrigan, physician's assistant who is active in the Catholic Worker movement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Linda Panetta, photojournalist and human rights activist and coordinator of School of the America's Watch

David Mineau, marriage and family counselor and active member of First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto, California, where his wife was pastor for sixteen years

Craig Weisner, United States Air Force veteran who is active in the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, California.  Craig is Jewish and his life partner is a Presbyterian elder.

Derrick Kikuchi, co-owner of a training development company in Silicon Valley and an elder of First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, California

Robina Bhatti, professor and director of Institute for Global Learning at California State University at Monterrey Bay.  She is a spiritual person raised in a non-denominational Christian church in Pakistan.

Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, a freelance journalist who co-founded with her husband the SS.  She is a Francis and Therese Catholic worker at a lay pacifist community that offers hospitality to Worcester's homeless men and women.

Rev. Stephen Holton, parish priest at St. Paul's On-the-Hill Episcopal Church in Ossining, New York, and founder of the Muslim-Episcopal dialogue in New York

Kristina Marie Olsen, nurse and singer/song-writer in Massachussettes.  She lost her sister Laurie Ann Olsen Neira on American Airlines flight 11 on September 11, 2001.  She is a person of deep faith who honors the wisdom in all religious traditions.