Susanne Carter and Ken Jones
PO Box 3433
Cambridge 5206
South Africa
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Susanne Carter and Ken Jones ended their service as mission co-workers in December 2006.

In January 2004 Susanne Carter and Ken Jones were appointed to serve with the South Africa network of Joining Hands Against Hunger (JHAH). JHAH, a project of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, addresses the root causes of hunger that create poor and hungry people all over the world. Susanne and Ken will work with a network of churches, NGOs, and grassroots groups that fight poverty through education, analysis, and advocacy campaigns.

The Joining Hands Against Hunger network in South Africa is linked with a network of churches in the PC(USA)’s Western Reserve Presbytery, of which Ken and Susanne are both minister members. These two networks have made a covenant to work together in mutual support to address the root causes of hunger and poverty in South Africa and in the United States. Part of the covenant is to establish a mutual relationship, allowing each group to get to know the other.

Susanne was the pastor of Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Euclid, Ohio, when in the fall of 2001 it became part of the JHAH pilot project. She designed a curriculum to help educate the church on hunger issues, especially the impact of globalization. What began as the work of writing a curriculum became a process for the transformation of the church. “God was at work at every twist of the group’s interactions. Transformation, change, does not come easily; only with God’s help and prodding will we privileged people hear and respond to God’s preferential option for the poor.” Susanne says that her experience with the JHAH group reminded her that her faith is best nurtured in group interactions.

At the same time Ken also found that his faith had recently been “growing away from the legacy of [his]‘rugged individualist' upbringing to embrace a more community-centered understanding of the meaning of human life.” He says he has adopted as an article of his faith the concept referred to by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “ubuntu,” that people can be people only through other people.

Letters from
Susanne Carter and Ken Jones

• November 2006
• August 2006 (2)
• August 2006
• June 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006
• January 2006
• December 2005
• December 2005
• November 2005
• October 2005
• September 2005
• August 2005
• July 2005
• June 2005
• May 2005
• April 2005
• March 2005
• January 2005
• December 2004 (2)
• December 2004 (1)
• November 2004
• September 2004 (2)
• September 2004 (1)
• June 2004
• May 2004 (2)
• May 2004 (1)
• April 2004 (2)
• April 2004 (1)
• February 2004
• November 2003 (2)
• November 2003 (1)

Ken has been a minister of the Word and Sacrament since 1969, and he has been active in solidarity with the South African people since he was part of a Presbyterian Peacemaking delegation to South Africa in 1992. He served as coordinator of the Cleveland-South Africa Project from 1996 to 2001. In recent years, Ken has been a stated supply pastor at First Presbyterian Church, East Cleveland, Ohio, and interim associate pastor at Korean Central Church in Brooksville, Ohio. He was associate pastor of Old Stone Church in Cleveland (1991–1996) and associate executive of the Presbytery of Western Reserve (1981–1990).

Ken holds a master’s of divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California, and a B.A. in chemistry from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.

Susanne was born and raised in Germany and moved to the United States in 1977. She has a diploma in psychology from Erlangen University, Germany, and a master’s of divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She served an interim pastorate at Harris Memorial Presbyterian Church in Astabula, Ohio (1998-1999) and was pastor of North Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio (1992-1996).

Ken and Susanne have a blended family of five adult children: Matthew, Lisa, Christoph, Rebecca, and Sarah, and one grandchild, Cleo.

Birthdays:
Ken – February 2
Susanne – October 29