CPT Corps members
The following members of Christian Peacemaker Teams UK are available for speaking engagements. Please note that hosting groups and organizations will be asked to pay for speaker's travel expenses.
Jenny and Justin Alexander
Phone: 07813 137171
Brief Bio: Justin and Jenny are CPT reservists who met in Tuwani in 2005 and married in June 2006. Justin has been visiting Iraq since 2001, first campaigning against economic sanctions, then as the coordinator of Jubilee Iraq, advocating for the cancellation of Saddam's odious debts. In Spring 2005 he spent a month in Palestine and 2 months with CPT. Jenny was with CPT in Tuwani in Autumn 2005 following a year studying arabic in Jordan.
Christy Bischoff
Address: Bradford, England
Phone: 0778 340 1175
email: bischoff@gofairtrade.net
Brief Bio: Christy did the training with CPT in January 2003, and is currently a reservist. Christy has worked with CPT in Palestine for a total of 6 months in the past three years. She is currently studying Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford.
Jan Benvie
Address: 2 Roods Square, Inverkeithing, KY11 1NR(Scotland)
Phone: 01383 410632
Email: jbenvie@yahoo.co.uk
Brief Bio: Jan trained with Christian Peacemaker Teams in January 2005 and is now a CPT full-timer in Hebron, and represents CPTers on the CPT Steering Committee. She spent six weeks in summer 2005 in Iraq with CPT. She works with young children with special needs and is a member of Anglican Franciscan Order, the Third Order of the Society of St Francis
Maureen Jack
Address: 80 Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LN (Scotland)
Phone: 01334 472697
Email: maureenjack2000@yahoo.com
Brief Bio: Maureen trained with Christian Peacemaker Teams in January 2003 and is now a CPT reservist. She spent two and a half months in 2003 in Iraq with CPT, both before and after the war. Since 2004 she has spent regular stints of time with the Hebron team. She is a retired educational psychologist.
Alwyn Knight
Phone: 01580 766265
Email: alwynknight@btinternet.com
Brief Bio: Alwyn first visited Hebron, and the CPT apartment, on the 7th July 2005, while on a tour organised by the Alternative Tourism Group.
In 2006 he spent three months in Hebron with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Progrrame in Palestine and Israel. In August 2007 Alwyn returned to the region with a CPT Delegation. He attended the winter training course in Chicago, and will now return to Hebron as a reservist.
For 38 years he was a minister of the Congregational, then United Reformed, Church. In retirement he is a member of the Society of Friends.
John Lynes
Address: Garden Flat, 46A Magdalen Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 6EU
Phone: 01424 720 507
Email: jlynes@iee.org
Brief Bio: John is a full time member of Christian Peacemaker Teams based in Hebron. He is an engineer, a lecturer in architecture and a Quaker.