• Executive Director

Kate Good has served as Executive Director at PRC since 2014. She serves on the Home and Community Based Services Board of Landis Communities and on the Patient Advisory Board of Union Community Care. Kate is a trained immigration legal advocate.

Prior to her role at PRC, Kate specialized in brand development and marketing, serving on an executive team that put multiple books on the New York Times bestseller list. She worked closely with a number of national nonprofits – Mayo Clinic, the Avon Foundation, and the American Diabetes Association – to develop tools and programming that increased the accessibility of their medical research and tools. Kate also worked as a creative, marketing, and content strategist with several major publishers. She is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University and George Mason University.

• Director of Community Initiatives

Rhoda started at PRC in 2019. She has a BA in Photography and a BA in Digital Media from Eastern Mennonite University and studied International Human Rights in graduate school at the University of Denver. She teaches PRC’s Tech workshops and has walked hundreds of people through how to work more efficiently with their technology.

Previously she worked as Marketing Manager for a growing, local business. Her work included online marketing, in-person sales, retail management, and employee training. She designed branding, signage, and product packaging. Rhoda has her Serv-Safe Food Manager Certification and is a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual under the Food Safety Modernization Act. She developed HACCP plans for a dairy manufacturing facility to meet industry requirements.

She is active in her church, teaching Sunday School.

• Director of Program Development

Susannah Conner received her B.A. in English Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill and her Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School. She is concerned with the convergence of storytelling and spirituality in all of her work and specializes in fundraising for nonprofit, cooperative, and faith-based organizations. She has helped organizations build sustainable grants programs, expand fundraising and marketing, and shape new projects – all while telling compelling stories. Susannah has released five studio albums as part of various musical groups, the most recent being a collection of songs written by women in prison over the course of two songwriting workshops she taught at the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women. She is currently based in Pocatello, Idaho.

• Spiritual Direction Faculty

Amy Shutt, MBA, is a long-time spiritual companion and retreat leader. She is a Kairos SDT alum and former Kairos board member. She has an MBA from Drexel and a Bachelor’s in Architectural Engineering. Amy is employed as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, managing HVAC system design and construction in the pharmaceutical sector. She especially enjoys mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Amy is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, USA and active as a teacher and leader in her church – First Presbyterian in Pottstown.

• Spiritual Direction Faculty

Jean Lengacher, M.Div, has 20+ years of connection with Kairos as a student and faculty member, and is returning in the newly formed position of Contemplative Faculty. She received her M.Div. in Christian Spiritual Formation and a Certificate of Spiritual Direction from Eastern Mennonite Seminary. She has completed additional training through Kairos, Shalem Institute, Maryland Center for Reiki Training, and Common Awakening.

Jean specializes in mindful meditation, awareness, and compassion-based practices, honoring Christian and Buddhist traditions. She is a reiki master and attends to energy and body movement as prayer practices.

• Spiritual Direction Faculty

Anne Byram Blackwood is an Anabaptist Christian spiritual director. Originally trained as a physician, Anne received training in the art of spiritual direction at Mercy Center (Burlingame, CA), and San Francisco Theological Seminary (San Anselmo, CA), and supervision training through Spiritual Directors International. She is also trained as a mediator, conflict coach, and facilitator. While Anne’s own background and training are in Christianity, she recognizes and honors wisdom from diverse traditions.

Through her spiritual direction and supervision practice, which she calls “Roots and Vision,” Anne seeks to accompany others, especially those called to the work of compassion, peace and justice, in exploring their deepest beliefs and experiences, as balm for difficult times and as a window into the paths to which they feel called, and the steps they can take on their journey toward spiritual freedom, authenticity, and connection.

• Supervising Accountant

Robin is a certified public accountant (CPA) with over 30 years of experience in public accounting specializing in small business services including payroll, taxes and the training and utilization of Quickbooks software. In addition to her work at the PRC, she is employed by the School District of Lancaster as an accountant in the business office.

• Accountant

Diana works part-time for the Parish Resource Center as the accountant directly connecting with PRC bookkeeping clients. She is also employed full-time in the accounting field and has over 10 years of accounting experience in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Diana has an extensive knowledge in Quickbooks including; setting up a chart of accounts, writing and printing checks, reconciling accounts, making journal entries, setting up budgets, creating customized reports, invoicing and making deposits.

• Bookkeeper

Karen started part-time for Parish Resource Center in 2021. She has 10 years experience in accounting administration and has great knowledge of Microsoft Excel including creating formulas and pivot tables to get a clearer picture from data. She also has experience working in QuickBooks writing checks, creating invoices, and receiving payments.

• Treasurer

Toews, Ayers and Huber (Principle)