Rabbi Michael Singer

Congregation Brith Sholom

Kate Cohen serves as the Chief Development Officer for the Greater Valley YMCA Association, comprised of all six Y Branch locations in Lehigh and Northampton Counties.

Kate has served in this role since 2018, and is a third generation Y staff member, passionate about the organization’s core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.

Kate earned her Masters in Public Administration and a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Villanova University in 2019, and is deeply committed to servant leadership roles that help address inequities throughout the Lehigh Valley.

In support of the Valley’s collective nonprofit work, Kate serves as a Board Member and Secretary for the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter, as well as on the Technical Assistance Committee of the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley’s Strategic Response Team.

In her free time, Kate enjoys crafting, flea marketing, traveling, as well as frequenting local shops, restaurants and events far too often. If you ever need a local food or retailer recommendation, Kate’s your contact!

Justin Keiper, Funeral Director, Cantelmi Long Funeral Homes

Maureen DeBellis | Prayer Through Heart & Breath: Meditative Support for Well-Being

Join Joanne as she chats with Diane Elliot about her decades long work on behalf of the homeless and marginalized population of the lehigh valley and her newest venture Catalyst 4!

In this episode, SFCR Executive Director Joanne Anderson speaks with Sister Bonnie Marie Kleinschuster about her many roles at St. Francis Center for Renewal, including as Director of The Monocacy Farm Project.

Sister Marguerite Stewart, Spiritual Director at St. Francis Center for Renewal

In this episode we speak with Veronne Demesyeux, Associate Executive Director, New Bethany Ministries.

In this, our inaugural season we will be introducing you to and sharing thoughts with folks from all over the Lehigh Valley doing good works for others, and we will be asking each of them what Renewal means in their lives, how they help renew others and how they renew themselves.

We hope you will listen in on these conversations and find something that renews you here.