Ministers

William Yu hails from Evansville, Indiana and graduated from Taylor University with a degree in International Studies, concentration in Christian World Missions. He is currently a Sous Chef at the best Chinese restaraunt in Evansville and is working on a Masters in Social Work at the University of Southern Indiana.

Gretchen Hargis is from Terre Haute, Indiana and spent several years as a student of geology, geography, and environmental science at Indiana State University before moving to Evansville to pursue certification as a Registered Nurse at Ivy Tech Community College. Her passions include natural and herbal medicines, women’s health awareness, creation care, and caring for survivors of abuse and domestic violence.

Jason Barr mis-spent his youth in Petersburg, Indiana and then moved to the big city to pursue a BA at the University of Evansville with a double major in music and Biblical studies. After spending the better part of four years trying to move on to greener pastures he finally accepted that God just might have things for him to do in Indiana. He is slowly but surely working towards a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at USI, and works as a freelance writer, musician, and recording artist and operates a music teaching studio. Jason maintains the radical Christian blog An Absolution Revolution and occasionally speaks at various festivals, conferences, and gatherings on Christianity and radical politics. At different times and places he has been mistaken for Jack Black, Jack Osborne,  Claudio Sanchez, and, somewhat inexplicably, since he’s only 5′7″, Abraham Lincoln. He is seeking to articulate faith-full positions on the post-everything condition, life in the twilight of American Empire, economic praxis in the context of globalization and consumerism, and worship and liturgy as countercultural community formation. He tries to keep his sermons (relatively) short.

Jason is also a novice Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict through St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana.