Susan is an ordained ELCA pastor who served various parishes in the Minneapolis, MN area for 16 years before becoming a full-time faith-based community organizer. Four years ago, she took the call as the ELCA's Director for Congregation-based Organizing, based out of the Churchwide office in Chicago, IL. Now she gets to wander purposefully around the U.S. in search of leaders and congregations who want to become "part of the solution" in their communities. She loves to learn from what they're doing as well as challenge them to try out some new ways of being church for the sake of the world that God so loves.