Dr. Kathie Wright is an ardent follower of Christ who is also a professor and psychologist. Her training as a therapist focused on cultural awareness in helping others to authentically connect with their own stories to find solutions for reaching psychological wellbeing. Serving as a professor of psychology at a community college allows her to be among a group of learners from various countries, cultures, and walks of life. 

She organizes Global Leaders, the college’s international, intercultural group aimed at making a difference through service and conversations that promote compassionate care.  When one authentically shares their story as others listen with curiosity born of sincere concern, the room becomes a cathedral. 

Volunteering with students and other faculty and staff  in the college food pantry, she admires the holiness of human hearts given over to love. 

More than four decades ago, she married the love of her life who also introduced her to Christ. Her husband was from a different state, a different region, and a different ethnicity  than her own. The joy of life has been in seeking more of Christ together on wild adventures wherever the Lord leads. Together they have traveled extensively and learned along the way about how place informs beliefs. Whether with a friend at home in her living room or with a woman serendipitously met at a train depot, her favorite opportunity is to be in heart-to-heart conversation. She listens in a way that brings out the unexpected story. Together, she and the woman  can place the story in context of what the Lord is doing. 

Church life involves helping to bring women into mentoring and being mentored. She leads a creative team of seven women who design the women’s mentoring ministry. 

She is the liaison to the Cebu City mission where a missionary family is building connections to foster intimacy with Christ through open doors in art and prison ministry. Church development is an ongoing focus. 

As a part of the spiritual team on the Zambia Medical Mission, she is mutually encouraged among women who live in the communal culture of southern Zambia. The cultural uniqueness there involves women needing support in teaching of Christ through a world where polygamy is the norm and spiritism is part of the history lived even in the present. 

In each role, she admires the design of humans that God has woven into his plan for all to come to himself in prayer, humility and belief. 

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