Regional Representatives
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Contact your Regional Representative to share your success stories, channel your concerns to staff at the national office, find out more about the resources KAIROS has to offer, or learn how to start a new KAIROS local group.

Kenn Stright

Kenn Stright is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He married to the Rev. Jeanne Stright who serves a United Church congregation in Halifax. And their three grown children all find themselves nearby.  

Kenn began ministry with the people of Waywayseecappo, an Aboriginal community in western Manitoba. Many of the difficult issues around residential schools were still hidden at this time but came more and more to the surface as trust and respect were built up over the period Kenn spent in Manitoba. Kenn has remained connected to that community and the issues that have surfaced over the past twenty years. In 1996, he authored the denomination's study on the Confession offered at that time. He was involved in a number of the conferences held to seek a way forward, such as Sacred Assembly ’95 and the Design Teams for Healing and Reconciliation (and still is!) and was the Educational Coordinator for the Healing and Reconciliation Initiative.  

Through Councils of Churches, Kenn has worked with Ending Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism, Citizens against pollution, and with Costal Communities addressing the decline in the Fisheries. Kenn was named “Ecumenist of the Year” in 1996 by the Centre for Ecumenism in Montreal.  

Kenn has worked in a number of capacities with the Justice Ministries of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and has been a member of the Halifax cluster of Kairos since 2004.

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Susan Grace Draper

Watching the struggle for civil rights in the US as well as the protests against the war in Viet Nam as they played out every night on the television news, informed and shaped Susan’s teenaged understanding of politics, and the role that ordinary people can play in a democratic society. Martin Luther King Jr. and his non-violent demonstrations against injustice were powerful examples and she vowed that one day she would stop talking about all the problems and do something.

Time passed; life happened. She married, became a public school teacher, and then a mother of three children. It was at this point, Susan decided that it was time to model another way of being in the world: her children needed to see alternative models, rich with the possibility of transformation and hope.

For over 20 years, grassroots social justice organizations have been her “work”. Active in her United Church in whatever community she made her home, Susan served in leadership roles on outreach committees, Christian Education committees, and local Ten Days for Global Justice committees. On the secular side of things, Amnesty International, anti-poverty coalitions and various community peace groups have also been places where Susan has practiced her commitment to walking a different path.

When Susan married Bill Draper, a retired naval officer active in the Baha’i faith community, living and working in a multi-faith way also became very important to her; the KAIROS groups in Victoria where both she and her husband work for social justice, welcomesall faith traditions.

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Tom Sagar

Following a career in education, where he served in various leadership capacities at local, area and provincial levels, Tom was elected Regional Representative in 2005.

Lector and Eucharistic minister in his catholic parish, he is actively involved in his church’s outreach to the bereaved (Consolation and Hope), its annual Vacation Bible School, and parish social ministry through Development and Peace and KAIROS.

Currently serving as chair, he has been connected with El Sembrador since its inception in 1999. Based in the Bradford-Newmarket area, El Sembrador is an outreach program to seasonal, migrant agricultural workers from Mexico who work on local farms.

The work of El Sembrador has been recognized by KAIROS, UFCW, North-South Institute and researchers from various Ontario universities.

During his term as Regional Representative, Tom has responded to invitations to speak or preach in Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Quaker and United places of worship.

Tom encourages you to help build the KAIROS volunteer network throughout the Great Lakes- Saint Lawrence Region. GL-SL comprises most of Ontario: anywhere east from Pukaskwa National Park to the Quebec border plus English speaking groups in Quebec.
Much of this vast area does not yet have a KAIROS presence. Please prayerfully consider whether you being called to be the catalyst to initiate a KAIROS presence in your local community.

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Christine Zyla

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Jean Luc Djigo

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