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Leadership Team

GCF is led by this team of servant leaders who are stewards of our ministry for the coming year.  Click on the mail badge under their name to send an email directly to them.

Joe Thomas
InterVarsity Staff Member & Small Group Leader

Joe Thomas is in his first year leading the Graduate and Faculty Ministry at the University of Illinois. He has served the University of Illinois campus as part of the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Christian Union for the last ten years. Joe designed with Alan Hable a prayer walk through the University of Illinois campus which you can listen to on his podcast Wayfinding. He is presently a professor of Christian History at Urbana Theological Seminary where he continues to teach part time. He recently co-authored a book entitled Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For fun, he leads Christian History Tours in Europe. 

Attends Windsor Road Christian Church

Emily Cook
President & Small Group Leader

4th year Chemistry PhD student

Attends Christ Community Church in Champaign

Alison Kim
Treasurer & Prayer Co-Leader

2nd year Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering PhD student

Attends Christ Community Church

 

Nathaniel Bowden
Small Group Leader & Prayer Co-Leader

2nd year Physics PhD student

Attends All Souls Presbyterian Church (202 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)

Samuel Jung
Small Group Leader

2nd year Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student

Attends Twin City Bible Church (TCBC)

Shuen Wu
Events and Outreach Coordinator

3rd year Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student

Attends University Baptist Church

Will Shen
Worship Coordinator

2nd year ECE Masters student

Attends Christ Community Church