Alain Epp Weaver worked with Mennonite Central Committee in the Middle East in various capacities for over eleven years. He lived in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Amman, Jordan, most recently serving as MCC representative for Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. Epp Weaver was born in Boulder, Colorado and grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He graduated from Bethel College (Kansas) in 1991 and received a Master of Divinity from the University of Chicago in 1999. He currently is a doctoral student in theology at the University of Chicago. Together with his wife Sonia, Epp Weaver wrote Salt and Sign: Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine, 1949-1999 (Akron, Pa.: MCC, 1999). He edited the volume, Mennonite Theology in Face of Modernity and has published articles in academic and popular venues, including Mennonite Quarterly Review, Journal of Religious Ethics, Review of Politics, Christian Century, and The Mennonite. Epp Weaver is married to Sonia Weaver. Alain and Sonia have two children, Samuel and Katherine. He is a member of First Mennonite Church of Bluffton, Ohio. Esther Epp-Tiessen is Peace Ministries Coordinator for MCC Canada. She has served with MCC in the Philippines, Ontario, and Manitoba, and has also worked as a pastor, researcher, and writer. She has a master of arts in Canadian history from the University of Manitoba and has published two books on Canadian Mennonite themes, Altona: The Story of a Prairie Town and J. J. Thiessen: A Leader for his Time. She is a member of Charleswood Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is married to Dan Epp-Tiessen and has two living sons. Dan Epp-Tiessen is currently assistant professor of Bible at Canadian Mennonite Unversity in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His other work experience includes pastoring, homemaking, and serving as Mennonite Central Committee country representative in the Philippines from 1982-1986 together with his wife Esther. Timothy Seidel serves as peace development worker with Mennonite Central Committee in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Seidel was born in California and grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Messiah College (Pennsylvania) in 1999 and received a Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, D.C.) and a Master of Arts in international peace and conflict resolution from American University’s School of International Service (Washington, D.C.) in 2003. Along with his wife Christi Hoover Seidel, Timothy has lived for the past three years in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, where their son Kai Emanuel was recently born. Christi Hoover Seidel is currently co-peace development worker for Mennonite Central Committee in the West Bank with her husband Tim. Christi was born and raised in Central Pennsylvania. Her background is in education and behavioral science, and she is a graduate of Messiah College in Pennsylvania. She was a first-grade teacher in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 2000-2003. She gave birth to her first child, Kai Emanuel, in Bethlehem, Palestine, in 2006.
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