Andy Cashion
I am a young man who is constantly re-discovering what it means to be a true Christian in a struggling world where the word “Christian” has been used to commit some of the worst sins possible. Currently, I am searching for my place in promoting change in the world. I do believe I can be a leader, I believe I have a positive future despite my past choices to ignore the needs of the world. I strongly value family and love working (and playing) with children. I enjoy the outdoors – hiking, backpacking, and camping – and value taking care of our environment and wilderness. I believe in community but struggle with the institution of church as it is today. I think that the Christian church today is going through a major transformation and though many mega-churches will oppose it, we will eventually stop centering church around the way that the apostle Paul supposedly set it up, and start centering church around the way Jesus did it – with personal relationships at the core of community. Andy coordinates the monthly collective gatherings. You can find Andy’s art and blog here.

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Brooke Evans
I am a mom, wife, artisan, bookkeeper, notary and holistic health counselor. As a health counselor, I was trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and am certified through the Teacher’s College at Columbia University. I also make a variety of handcrafts and apparel for both children and adults which you can find at Citizen Video. Combining these two passions, I facilitate most of the Justice Kitchen and Make Something Day workshops that the Ecclesia Collective offers from time to time. I am married to Jason Evans and we have two wonderful children. I am a co-founder of The Ecclesia Collective. I am also a member of the Hawthorn House and I serve as the board treasurer of the Collective. Before the Collective, my husband and I helped establish some of the communities affiliated with Matthew’s House. I plan to live on 6 of the 7 continents in my lifetime.

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Jason Evans
Ryan Sharp of the Cobalt Season once introduced me as an “Anabaptist anarchist”… works for me! I am married to the amazing Brooke Evans. We have two amazing kids. I live with some of my best friends at the Hawthorn House and play music with some other friends in a band called Snake Babies. I am a co-founder of The Ecclesia Collective–for which I am now the executive director, work with the Center for Anabaptist Leadership and am a MA student at Fuller Seminary. Most of my ‘professional’ experience has been spent between Christian ministry, journalism, marketing and construction (go figure!). Before our work with the Collective, Brooke and I helped establish Matthew’s House in North County. Both the EC and Matthew’s House have been profiled in books such as Jim and Casper Go To Church, by Jim Henderson and Matt Casper, Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger and Emerging Worship by Dan Kimball. I like to spend my time hanging out with my wife, tickling my kids, doing home repair, reading books, making art and playing music (drums specifically). I am a sometimes blogger over here.

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Emily Goodrich
Emily spent most of her life in a battle with San Diego, trying to leave it. In the end, San Diego won, and she’s currently taking a second look at the city around her. After studying art at Biola University, living in Utah and Serbia, and two years of interning with a local non-profit called Invisible Children; she stumbled into a small community of friends looking for creative ways to love and encourage the people of their city and the world around them. Three of her current favorite projects are finding ways to show hospitality and friendship to her neighbors in City Heights, exploring different avenues of more responsible consumerism through her line of jewelry, and “Bake it Forward,” a grassroots education and baking campaign to spread the word about the problem of slavery in the chocolate industry. She blogs here.

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Geoff Hsu
Geoff’s desire is to see the whole church live out the whole gospel, for the good of the whole city. His ministry is primarily oriented toward mobilizing a Jesus movement that increasingly transforms San Diego with the gospel of the kingdom. He is also involved in helping to re-missionalize traditional churches and denominations. He is an advocate of the idea of the “middle-case ‘C’ church,” and finds great help in applying chaos theory to the Modern understanding of movements. Spiritual formation has become the central focus in disciplemaking for Geoff. He is currently experimenting with a non-formal, spiritual formation centric learning community as a means of developing missional leadership for the church. He spends most of his weekends on the sidelines of his daughter’s soccer tournaments, training for a half marathon, or fixing one of his aging cars. Geoff and Pam have been married for 22 years. He is on staff with CRM and a student at Bakke Graduate University. Geoff is a board member for the Ecclesia Collective.

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Doug Humphreys
Father of three and husband to Kelly for 24 years. On staff with Church Resource Ministries, leading a team called Communitas San Diego — discovering faith with people outside the influence of the local church. I love the Church (community of Jesus followers everywhere), and love the church (communities gathered together) but don’t see either embodied in as many churches as I think Jesus would like. And that makes me sad, that is my burden and that is what drives me. I want people to be exposed to the hope of Jesus and his bride, the Church, in all her beauty, reflecting mercy, reflecting grace, reflecting redemption, reflecting forgiveness, reflecting Jesus. Look around, the Kingdom of God is near you. Doug is the board president of the Ecclesia Collective. He is also a student at Bakke Graduate University. He blogs here.

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Laurel Mathewson
Laurel Mathewson lives in San Diego, California, a place she appreciates despite the fact that it’s neither a small town nor in Oregon. For college she ventured from the Northwest to the San Francisco bay area, where Stanford University indulged her academic curiosities, and also provided the space to meet lots of wonderful people – including her husband, Colin. After graduating in 2005 and spending a restorative year back in her rural hometown, Laurel spent a year of vocational exploration with Sojourners. A year after living with seven other people during their first year of marriage in Washington D.C., Laurel and Colin moved to San Diego and are now both part of Hawthorn House and discerning ordained ministry in the Episcopal church. Laurel has written for both Sojourners and Geez. She is also the board secretary for the Ecclesia Collective.

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Daniel So
Daniel is a husband, father, pastor, and occasional graphic designer & writer figuring out what it means to love and follow Jesus in the everyday and in-between, and to help others do the same.  Daniel is married to the love of his life, Jeya, and is privileged to co-pastor their church community with her.  They strive to join God’s mission of reconciliation and redemption in San Diego and beyond.  Jeya still gets a kick out of the strange hand-map native Michiganders (like Daniel) make whenever they meet each other. They have one daughter who completely lights up their home with her spontaneous songs & dance crew moves (look out ABDC, in about 12 or 13 years!).  Daniel loves being a part of the Kingdom movement in SD as a board member of The Ecclesia Collective. Use the internet machine to get all 2.0 with Daniel on the Twitter or on his blog.

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