I am an Ordained ELCA Lutheran Minister and have an ordination in the United Church of Christ. I have served two parishes since 2006, and I have been a Hospice Chaplain since 2009. I have done ministry in the Military and Federal prison system, and I was a Campus Police Officer for 12 years at Bucknell University.
I have a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Penn State University and a Masters of Divinity Degree from Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. I am currently a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Lutheran Theology in Systematic Theology.
I also serve on the Boards of Devitt House Nursing home and Days of Remembrance Holocaust board.
I represented Pennsylvania as Guest Chaplain of the US Senate nominated by Robert Casey Jr in 2010.
I represented North American Lutherans in the Lutheran World Federation global study of Luther for Reformation celebration in Wittenberg Germany in 2010.
Barbara Cassidy is a retired senior office manager of a multi million dollar manufacturing company. She holds a BA in Business administration & is currently residing in Gurnee Illinois.
She joined ICRC in 2016, and uses her business background and knowledge to work behind the scenes to support ICRC and the underserved Iraqi community.
Patrick Carney is a Managing Director in Wealth Management for Raymond James & Associates in San Antonio, Texas. He is in his 38th year managing investment and retirement assets for over 150 families in Texas and throughout the United States.
Raised in the Presbyterian Church USA, where he was a Deacon, Elder and Commissioner to the General Assembly, he now attends the Fellowship of San Antonio.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington in 1976, Patrick later earned a Masters of Business Administration degree at Columbia University in the City of New York. As an advertising executive at Sports Illustrated in the 70’s and 80’s, Patrick had the eternal thrill of being an eyewitness to the “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid, 1980.
Invested into the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem in 1997, Patrick ultimately served as Grand Prior XX from 2016 to 2018. He went on to serve as Treasurer General of OSMTH, the international body of the Knights Templar beginning in 2020, and was recently installed as the Deputy Grand Commander of OSMTH.
As time permits, Patrick is a devotee of Peloton, scuba diving, golf and international travel.
The Rev. Dr. David Fischler is the Pastor of First Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Anna, Illinois, where he has served since 2017. Prior to that, he was an EPC church planter in northern Virginia, and served several Moravian Church in America and United Methodist Church congregations in North Carolina. He celebrated his 40th year in ministry in June 2023.
After growing up Jewish in New Jersey and becoming a Christian in college (Rutgers University, Class of 1980), he attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, receiving a Master of Divinity degree in 1983. He then pursued and received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity School for Ministry in Pennsylvania in 2015.
Pastor Fischler's background has led him to a passionate desire to serve persecuted peoples. More than 30 members of his own family perished in the Holocaust, and when he heard Juliana Taimoorazy talk about the plight of Assyrian Christians at the 2016 EPC General Assembly, he felt compelled to join the effort the ICRC was engaged in.
Since then, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors (six years), writer, speaker, and advisor to Ms. Taimoorazy.
Alison Pure-Slovin, a native Chicagoan, is the Midwest Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international, United Nations' accredited Human Rights NGO, fighting against all forms of hate and bigotry. In her tenure, the Center's Midwest Division has created educational partnerships and opportunities for hundreds of thousands of students, community leaders, and business professionals, on the topics of hate, racism, and anti-Semitism.
Further, based on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's preeminent Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Alison spearheaded efforts to design, build, and implement the Mobile Museum of Tolerance, www.MMOT.com, a state-of-the-art retrofitted 'museum on wheels', to travel around Illinois educating individuals, young and old, on the ramifications and impact of hate and how to build a better and more equitable tomorrow.
Alison is an elected Trustee for the Village of Skokie, and is an elected board member of To Protect Our Heritage PAC and the Iraqi Christian Relief Council and previously served on the State of Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission. She is also an Honorary Member of the Leadership Team of Good Change Rwanda. Alison was the first and only female President of the Standard Club, one of the longest surviving social, philanthropic, and Jewish-cultured clubs in America.
The Decalogue Society of Lawyers presented Alison the Community Service award, in recognition of her work to fight against hatred, racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance, presenting a model of Tikkun Olam. In addition, she was awarded the The Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, Mazzei Award, presented to her for her contributions in the world of public affairs and The Shomrim Society of Illinois, an organization of first responders of the Jewish Faith, awarded Alison and the Simon Wiesenthal Center for their civic leadership. Alison is also honored to be included as a Distinguished Honorary Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Previously, Alison was Midwest Director of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, one of the largest and oldest hospitals in Jerusalem, a position she held for close to 10 years.
Alison is passionate about the mission and work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center because of her personal experience with anti-Semitism as a child and her desire to create a world void of hate. Currently, Alison lives in Skokie and spends her free time with her children and many grand-children.
Dr. David Masters was raised in a big Catholic family who descend from Alsatian-Lorrainian Jews, French Canadians, and indentured-servant Balearic Islanders who arrived in the Timukwa region of the Pascua Florida Peninsula in 1768. After a year of full-time missionary work, David has worked as a full-time secondary school theology teacher in Miami Gardens, Florida at Msgr. Pace HS since 1989 and as an adjunct professor of theology and ministry at Saint Thomas University since 2005.
He was trained by his parents as a door-to-door Peregrinatio Pro Christo missionary. His missionary destinations have included the Antilles and Central and South America, often accompanied by his wife, sons, and students. Professor Masters’ academic specialities include missiology and Christian social-moral doctrine. Dr. Masters has pursued additional studies in: genocide, the shoah-holocaust, human trafficking, Judaism, and biblical and modern languages.
Professor Masters teaches courses on: the world’s religions, sacred scripture, Christology, Catholic social and ecological doctrine, human rights, genocide, peacemaking, reconciliation, missiology, church history, ethics/morality, and sacraments to middle and high school, university, and adult education students.
The Holy Spirit has led Dr. Masters to focus on today’s monumental global human rights struggles against genocide, female circumcision, and BDS. As a result, Dr. Masters has been active in the Iraqi Christian Relief Council since 2015. Professor Masters earned: his BA in journalism, faith, peace, and justice, and African-American studies from Boston College; his MA in practical theology, sacred scripture, and peacemaking from Saint Thomas University; and his DMin from Barry University in sacred scripture and missiology. David has received accolades from the Peace Education Foundation (Peace Educator of the Year) and Pax Romana USA (Peter Maurin Award).
Dr. Masters’ avocations are visiting manifold houses of worship, history, hiking, reading biblical commentaries, and probing the etymologies of names. In addition to his missiological book (Ruined for Life: Post-Missionary-Immersion Reintegration & Conversion. Washington: DC, Pacem In Terris, 2019. ISBN-10: 1733047506. ISBN-13: 978-1733047500), Dr. Masters’ publications include an exposition on the Miami McDuffie riot of 1980 and a chapter on Catholic doctrine regarding the indispensable role of families which he co-authored with his wife Dayane for Pax Romana’s Study Guide on the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
Dennis was commissioned a Second Lieutenant USAR in 1970 and began a state civil service career the same year. He retired from both 28 years later - as a Lt. Col. from the U.S. Army Reserve and a Deputy Court Administrator of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Upon retirement, he was appointed as Rhode Island's Training Manager for the 2000 Federal Census within the U. S. Department of Commerce.
He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of RI and is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Morgan is now a genealogy researcher specializing in Irish ancestry and has published several family history books.
Morgan is a Papal Knight Commander in the Order of St. Gregory the Great, a Knight Grand Cross in the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights Templar and a Knight Commander in the Order of St. George.
Marcie, an experienced non-profit fundraising consultant, serves as the Treasurer on the board of directors and has provided bookkeeping services and donor management for the Iraqi Christian Relief Council for the past 5 years.
She has managed non-profit fundraising events and donor management systems for 21 years, raising millions of dollars through galas, golf tournaments, and tennis tournaments for Legacy Youth Tennis and Education, Salus University, Education, Works, The Caring Center, Philadelphia Center for Advancing Entrepreneurs, and Emily's Entourage, where she focused on sponsorship, ticket sales, and the silent auction.
Prior to fundraising, Thomson Reuters employed her for 24 years, with her last position as Director of Business and Financial Systems. Marcie was responsible for the accurate reporting of $650M in annual sales, accounts receivable, and revenue reporting in the Order to Cash system for ten subsidiaries while managing a staff of thirteen and a $4M budget. Marcie earned her Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering Sciences at Drexel University.
Patrick Carney is a Managing Director in Wealth Management for Raymond James & Associates in San Antonio, Texas. He is in his 38th year managing investment and retirement assets for over 150 families in Texas and throughout the United States.
Raised in the Presbyterian Church USA, where he was a Deacon, Elder and Commissioner to the General Assembly, he now attends the Fellowship of San Antonio.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington in 1976, Patrick later earned a Masters of Business Administration degree at Columbia University in the City of New York. As an advertising executive at Sports Illustrated in the 70’s and 80’s, Patrick had the eternal thrill of being an eyewitness to the “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid, 1980.
Invested into the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem in 1997, Patrick ultimately served as Grand Prior XX from 2016 to 2018. He went on to serve as Treasurer General of OSMTH, the international body of the Knights Templar beginning in 2020, and was recently installed as the Deputy Grand Commander of OSMTH.
As time permits, Patrick is a devotee of Peloton, scuba diving, golf and international travel.
