Executive Director
Seven tips for change makers: here’s what it actually takes to drive lasting impact
May 30, 2025
Dear KAIROS community,It’s been an honour to serve as Transitional Executive Director supporting the KAIROS movement through a time of organizational change and transformation from September 2023 through May 2025. Looking back over my term of service with KAIROS, here…
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Tools for Transformation: Cultivating Our Resilience in Uncertain Times
January 22, 2025
What a time to be alive. Every day (every hour?) news headlines pop up about something previously unthinkable happening in our world. I’ve been taking in small sips of news, especially post-inauguration in the U.S., trying to stay current but…
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A Christmas Video for Sharing from Leah Reesor-Keller, KAIROS’ Transitional Executive Director
December 17, 2024
We are thrilled to share with you a short video message from Leah Reesor-Keller, KAIROS’ Transitional Executive Director. Please share it with your family, friends, and community. Post it on social media, share it with your contacts, or show it…
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This kairos moment
January 29, 2024
When you have KAIROS in your name, it tends to lead you to think about kairos moments – the question of what time it is, not from a chronological perspective but from a significance perspective. What time is it in…
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KAIROS’ Christmas Message from Leah Reesor-Keller
December 14, 2023
This past fall, KAIROS’ partner in the West Bank gave us a gift that I keep thinking about. It’s a handcrafted nativity scene from Bethlehem with a wall running through its centre. Wi’am: Palestine Conflict Transformation Centre presented KAIROS with…
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KAIROS’ Letter to the Prime Minister
October 20, 2023
En FrançaisKAIROS is closely monitoring reports of the escalating violence between Hamas and Israel. We have written to the Prime Minister urging him to do everything in his power to support an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated solution to the…
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KAIROS welcomes Leah Reesor-Keller as Interim Executive Director
September 29, 2023
KAIROS Canada is delighted to announce that, effective September 25, 2023, Leah Reesor-Keller will serve as KAIROS’ Interim Executive Director for an eight-month term. Leah brings to the role 18 years of experience working with faith-based and social justice organizations in…
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Love God, Love People: A Sincere Prayer and Hopeful Goodbye
August 25, 2023
It is with deep sadness that the Steering Committee announces the resignation of KAIROS’ Executive Director, Aisha Francis. We are very grateful for the dedication, energy and expertise that Aisha brought to KAIROS in her time here, and the vision…
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An Easter Blessing
April 6, 2023
Greetings and blessings from KAIROS. We wish you a wonderful Easter.With love,Aisha Francis
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A KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) Update
April 3, 2023
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) has been a program of KAIROS for twenty-five years. In 1996, in response to the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (which became part of KAIROS in 2001) worked…
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May your heart be at rest and comforted with peace this Christmas.
December 21, 2022
2022 has been a year of amazing grace and tenacious courage. As the world opened up, with both anticipation and trepidation, we invited the return of some former normalcy and also continued to fervently adjust and learn the newness of…
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Love, Forgive and Give – Easter message for sharing
April 13, 2022
In 2022, we are personally and collectively navigating tense moments and hostile, unnerving global events. An enduring pandemic that has changed our lives and livelihoods; the rise in racism that continues to affront human dignity, rights and justice; exacerbated mental…
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Thank you for supporting KAIROS in 2021
December 27, 2021
KAIROS is blessed with so many inspiring grassroots partners in Canada and globally who are doing incredible work thanks to faithful supporters like you.Every day KAIROS works for Indigenous rights, migrant rights, ecological sustainability, gender justice, human rights, and peacemaking….
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Spirited Reflection: New beginnings
June 2, 2021
This past weekend I ventured down to the lake. It was teeming with people. Runners and walkers, individuals, couples and families, the young and the mature. Everyone was out to enjoy a bit of the warmer weather that has come along with…
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Farewell from Lori Ransom
May 28, 2021
It has been a profound privilege to serve KAIROS in the role of Interim Executive Director for the first five months of 2021. Even before joining the staff, I understood the special place KAIROS occupies among organizations committed to social…
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KAIROS appoints Aisha Francis as Executive Director
April 23, 2021
en français | en español KAIROS Steering Committee is pleased to announce that Aisha Francis has been appointed as Executive Director of KAIROS effective May 17, 2021. Aisha is a seasoned professional with twenty-five years of diverse leadership and business experience across…
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Spirited Reflection: A great number of people followed him . . . crowds who had gathered there
March 31, 2021
Large numbers of people, bodies crowded together in one place, along the side of a road, or on top of a hill . . . these images fill me with unease in the Easter season of 2021—a year after a…
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Thank you for all your support to KAIROS in 2020!
December 31, 2020
Throughout this unique, difficult year, all of us at KAIROS have been reminded over and over again about how blessed we are with resilient, inspiring partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and with faithful supporters across the country. As we look to…
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Final message from Jennifer Henry, Executive Director
December 24, 2020
When I think of what KAIROS is, at its essence, the first words that come to mind are “together,” “accompaniment” and “solidarity.” Almost 20 years ago, KAIROS was created out of rich legacy as a place for churches and religious organizations…
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Believing in impossible change: KAIROS Christmas video message for sharing
December 24, 2020
Dear Friends,May we be ready this Christmas to really welcome the Holy One, the radical love and justice that changes everything. Let’s believe in impossible change and join our hands and hearts to the movements around the world that help…
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Lori Ransom appointed as Interim Executive Director at KAIROS
December 4, 2020
KAIROS Steering Committee has appointed Lori Ransom to the role of Interim Executive Director at KAIROS. Through the month of December, she will work collaboratively on a transition with Jennifer Henry, KAIROS current Executive Director, who will be leaving the…
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KAIROS Steering Committee Announcement
October 22, 2020
After eight and a half years as KAIROS Executive Director, 27 years overall with the ecumenical justice coalitions and KAIROS, Jennifer Henry will be leaving, effective December 31, 2020. “It has been an honour and privilege to serve this incredible…
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Thanksgiving video message for sharing
October 7, 2020
As we gather on Thanksgiving, there is no doubt that this year is different. However, I am looking forward to it for the reminder it brings to turn our hearts to gratitude. And there is so much to be thankful for. I am particularly grateful to the migrant workers who bring…
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Towards Right Relation: Statement of the KAIROS Executive
June 2, 2020
KAIROS strives to bring together Indigenous peoples, settlers and newcomers in shared commitments to human rights and ecological justice. As a community grounded in diverse spiritualities, we commit to vision of right relations between all peoples and the earth. As surely as we know such a future is…
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Easter video message to share: Easter mystery in extraordinary times
April 6, 2020
Dear Friend,These are tough times we are living in right now. We are very concerned for the grave risks, particularly to vulnerable peoples and communities in Canada and around the globe. It can be hard to keep our spirits up. In…
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A message to Canadians from religious leaders in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
April 2, 2020
Hope, gratitude and solidarityCanadians are experiencing the devastating impact of COVID-19 in what has become a rapidly evolving crisis. Understandably, this crisis has brought about feelings of anxiety, apprehension and fear. Critical elements of our daily lives are being thrown into…
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KAIROS is NOT going away
March 27, 2020
Dear Friends,I want to reach out to you with solidarity and hope in these perilous times. We send each and every one of you our strength and commitment to weather this crisis together with our eyes and actions clearly focused on those…
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Peace and goodwill to all peoples: KAIROS Christmas video
December 18, 2019
In days leading up to Christmas, I walked through the streets of Bethlehem with Palestinians for whom it is home.In this place of present day occupation, where people struggle to live in dignity and peace, you can’t help but reflect…
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