Our Staff
The Parish Collective staff serves by connecting people, cultivating resources, and creating spaces where we can learn from one another. We share a commitment to helping the Church rediscover life with our neighbors and participate in God's renewing work in every place.
Tim Soerens
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Ravenswood | Chicago, IL
Tim Soerens is the co-founding Executive Director of the Parish Collective, a global movement helping churches rediscover life with their neighbors and faithfully engage the places they call home. A speaker, church planter, and author, Tim has spent his ministry helping cultivate place-based communities that embody the good news in everyday life.
He is the author of Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church, Right Where You Are and co-author of the award-winning The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Transform Mission, Discipleship, and Community. Tim also co-founded Neighborhood Economics, an initiative that encourages entrepreneurship and neighborhood flourishing.
Tim lives in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Maria-Jose, and their sons, Lukas, Joaquín, and Benjamín.
Juli Kalbaugh
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Spicewood II | Bloomington, IN
Juli brings a love of systems, strategy, and soul-care to her role as Director of Operations for the Parish Collective. With experience in organizational leadership, grant management, entrepreneurship, and community building, she creates spaces where innovation, imagination, and relationships can flourish. Driven by curiosity and a desire to learn, Juli enjoys finding creative ways to strengthen communication, improve processes, and deepen relationships for the common good.
A breast cancer survivor, marathon finisher, NCAA basketball fan, and road trip enthusiast, Juli is always on the lookout for good books, vintage treasures, and the best cheeseburger in town. She also enjoys dancing with her daughters, redecorating her home, and quietly watching hummingbirds. Juli lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband, Corey, daughters Novella and Evia, and cats Greta and Willie. She is grateful to be part of the Parish Collective, supporting local leaders as they cultivate interconnected communities that reflect holistic flourishing.
Lauren Goldbloom
DIRECTOR OF GROUNDED FAITH INITIATIVE
Cliff Cannon | Spokane, WA
Lauren Goldbloom serves on the Parish Collective staff as the Director of the new Grounded Faith Initiative, a collaborative project with the Whitworth Office of Church Engagement made possible by the Lilly Endowment. Grounded Faith seeks to connect young adults and parish-focused churches for the sake of the common good of their neighborhoods. Lauren lives in Spokane, Washington, where she and her husband Matt and their six kids have embedded their lives in the fabric of the Cliff-Cannon neighborhood. She pastors Common Well, a hyper-local community of neighbors learning to follow Jesus in their everyday lives, and teaches as a substitute in the local schools.
Eunice Lin-Sawyer
GROUNDED FAITH SEATTLE AREA COVENER
Queen Anne | Seattle, WA
Before moving to Seattle, Eunice worked as a social worker for seven years before entering full-time ministry at her home church in Singapore, where she led the young adult ministry and established the church's local outreach and justice ministry. She loves pioneering new initiatives, bridging differences, challenging the status quo, and bringing a creative, even slightly subversive, approach to her work.
As someone who has experienced life as a foreigner, Eunice often reflects on what it means to put down deep roots while living in a transient place. Since 2020, she has partnered with Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil to train and consult with churches and Christian organizations in racial justice and reconciliation. She is also completing her Master of Divinity and M.A. in Reconciliation & Intercultural Studies at Seattle Pacific Seminary.
Stasi McAteer
GROUNDED FAITH SAN DIEGO COVENER
Ocean Beach | San Diego, CA
Stasi has lived in and served the community of Ocean Beach, San Diego, since 2014. She’s a founding admin of Buy Nothing groups, an avid volunteer in local schools, and has been a storyteller at SD's library. She hosted Friday Family Meal, a weekly community dinner, from 2014-2018.
Stasi holds an MDiv with a concentration in Worship, Theology, and the Arts from Fuller Seminary, and went on to do doctoral work in liturgy at the GTU. She especially loves creative preaching and curating meaningful rituals.
Stasi's family includes kids Maggie & Kieran with her philosopher husband John. You'll usually find them engaged in discussion (about movies, theology, or the Trolley Problem), playing (in the ocean, around a board game, or with their pet Cleocatra), or entertaining (friends, neighbors, & visiting angels).
Claire Strunk
GROUNDED FAITH SPOKANE AREA COVENER
Cliff Cannon | Spokane, WA
Claire is the Spokane Area convener for the Grounded Faith Initiative. She's worked in large churches and tiny churches, new church plants and long established congregations, traditional liturgy and contemporary, theologically conservative and theologically liberal churches. She's served as a pastor to college students and young adults, as a pastor to young families, and as a pastor to a congregation of seniors. But she is most interested in thinking about how churches can thrive where they are; how they can best love their actual neighbors.
Claire lives in the Cliff-Canon neighborhood on the lower south hill of Spokane with her husband Bill, and their kids, Jude and Greta.
Nate Tubbs
GROUNDED FAITH CHICAGO COVENER
The Island | Chicago, IL
Nate is a communications professional, organizer, and entrepreneur with a passion for his neighborhood and partnership in the city of Chicago and beyond. He has worked in the non-profit sector for many years in design, marketing, consulting, and community organizing.
You will find Nate at neighborhood meetings, his local school council, his block’s community garden, or playing with his kids. Nate and his wife, Jamie, and their three children live in The Island neighborhood on Chicago’s west side.
Ken Alvarado
GROUNDED FAITH CHICAGO AREA COVENER
Little Village | Chicago, IL
Ken is a community engagement leader passionate about place-based transformation and cross-sector collaboration. Ken is dedicated to developing strategies that connect people to purpose through grassroots initiatives. Bilingual and mission-driven, he fosters equity, trust, and sustainable impact in communities, rooted in Christ's hope and promises.
From Costa Rican parents, Ken was born and raised in Chicago's southwest side. He enjoys playing in the fire hydrants in the summer with his beautiful wife Danielle and 2 small daughters - Jhalina and Micaela.
Chelsea Kim Long
PARISH COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY IN PLACE COVENER
Golden Hill | San Diego, CA
Chelsea is a writer, meditation teacher, and lay theologian whose faith was reshaped through motherhood. A post-evangelical Christian, she weaves Scripture, contemplative spirituality, and embodied practice into her work. She co-leads a neighborhood faith community in San Diego, where she lives with her husband and three kids. Her debut book, Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood Beyond Patriarchy (Westminster John Knox) will be published in September 2026.
We're Glad You're Here
Thank you for taking the time to get to know our team. We hope you'll continue exploring Parish Collective and join us as we learn, connect, and seek the flourishing of our neighborhoods together.