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The Rev. Kathy McAdams
Executive Director
Direct line: 617-347-8582

The Rev. Kathy McAdams is a transplant from California, where she served for five years at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, as the Assistant, then Interim Rector, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. For many years, she has been passionate about working with poor and marginalized people. After graduation from seminary, she served as Interim Director of Homeless Ministry at Old First Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. As a seminarian, she founded the Task Force on Homelessness at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. And prior to seminary, Kathy helped her own parish reach out to street youth in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco. Kathy entered seminary with a background in Not-for-profit Administration and Elementary Education.

The Rev. Debbie Little
Founder and Missioner

The Rev. Dr. Deborah Little, ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1995, is a graduate of General Seminary and the Episcopal Divinity School. She has extensive experience in communications, publications, and management and has been a board member of several social service agencies. She is the author of Home Care for the Dying (Dial/Doubleday, 1985) and serves on the Consumer Advisory Board for Boston Healthcare for the Homeless.

The Rev. Steven Maki
Associate Minister

The Rev. Steven Maki, served as Rector in the Anglican Parish of Flower’s Cove in rural Newfoundland, Canada. Steven worked in homeless services in Boston as an outreach mental health clinician following his graduation from Episcopal Divinity School in 2003. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Sciences from Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, in 1998.  As a native of Massachusetts, Steven considers Boston to be his home.

Cristina Rathbone
Associate Minister

The Rev. Cristina Rathbone is a mom and a graduate of BU school of theology. She spent a year with Ecclesia as an intern and loved the work so much that she couldn't bear to leave, and is delighted to be part of the Ecclesia team again. Prior to entering seminary Tina wrote two books. The first, On the Outside Looking In, focuses on the lives of at-risk, urban youth. The second, A World Apart, tells the stories of women incarcerated in MCI-Framingham. She was recently ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church.

Mary Jane Eaton
Director of common art and common cinema

Ms. Mary Jane Eaton has lived in the Boston area since leaving her home state of Maine in 1992. She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in Waltham and a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. Mary joined Ecclesia Ministries in January 2007, after spending seven years working at VISIONS, Inc., a not-for-profit anti-racism organization. As a quilter and self-taught artist, she says that, “all people require opportunities for creativity and beauty. Common art and common cinema provide for this universal human need. I am delighted to be a part of these programs.”
Mary is also the co-founder and co-pastor of Worcester Fellowship, an affiliate ministry of Ecclesia that serves the poor and homeless community of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Bill Meehangraduate
Minister of Music

Mr. Bill Meehan has an undergraduate degree in music from Boston University and taught music for nine years in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He has been playing tuba for 40 years. He states that "It's my job to show up and lead the common cathedral congregation in singing and accompany them with my banjo or mandolin. What I put into the common cathedral Sunday service comes back to me ten-fold."

Jessica Shaughnessy
Artist-in-Residence

(Photo by Peter Joseph Harris)

Sallie Fisher
common art Volunteer