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Co-President

Pastor Culbreth is a native of Twin City, GA and is the son of the late George W. Culbreth, Sr. and Ola M. Culbreth. He has been married to the love of his life, Gloria Moore Culbreth for 34 years and he has two sons, Micah J. Culbreth and Malachi J. Culbreth. He also has a daughter-in-law, Michaela Layne Culbreth.

Pastor Culbreth worked from 1984-1988 as a religion writer and general assignment reporter for The Clarion-Ledger Newspaper in Jackson, MS. He was ordained as a United Methodist deacon in 1991 and as a United Methodist elder in 1993.

Pastor Culbreth was appointed as the lead pastor of ConneXion Church: A United Methodist Community, in June 2016. ConneXion Church formed from the merger of Aldersgate UMC, Cokesbury UMC and a portion of the Speedwell UMC congregation. ConneXion Church is intentionally cross-racial and inter-generational. The church’s first service was held on June 19 2016.

Community Involvement:

• Emmaus Community Spiritual Leader
• Kairos Prison Ministry
• Savannah Addiction and Recovery Coalition
• Juliette Lowe Elementary School Council

Boards and Agencies:

• Coastal District Board of Ministry
• South Georgia Conference Board of Ministry
• Savannah Speech and Hearing
• GA Commission of Higher Education
• Ready Set Go Back to School Board

Honors and Awards:

• Leadership Jackson Graduate: Class of 1994-1995
• Theta Phi: Gammon Theological Seminary 1991
• The Harry Hoosier Award: Black Methodist for Church Renewal 2015
• 2023: Elected as a clergy delegate to the 2024 Jurisdictional Conference and alternate to the 2024 UMC General Conference

Co-President

Rabbi Robert Haas, a native of McAllen, Texas, became the 14th spiritual leader of Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia in 2012. After receiving his B. S. from the University of Texas at Austin, he began his first career as an elementary school teacher before matriculating at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Los Angeles, where he earned his Master’s Degree and Rabbinical Ordination. After graduation, he served as an associate rabbi in Dallas and in Houston, Texas. He then spent a year volunteering in Africa with American Jewish World Service before moving to Savannah to serve in his current position as the rabbi for the third oldest congregation in America.

Rabbi Haas is also a sought-after comedian, lecturer, preacher, and interfaith leader, regularly speaking and performing for organizations, radio shows, colleges, theaters, houses of worships, and institutions. He is married to April, and they have a daughter named Amira and a son named Aryeh.

Treasurer

Bruce K. Walker has served as JUST’s Treasurer since late 2022. He became active in JUST in 2020. He strongly supports JUST’s efforts to expand affordable housing opportunities for Savannahians of limited means, to decriminalize poverty in Savannah and Chatham County, and to improve the reading instruction in the early grades of the SCCPSS schools. 

 Bruce holds the BSAAE degree from Purdue University and SM and ScD degrees from MIT, all in Aerospace Engineering, and the MBA from the University of Cincinnati (UC). He was on the Aerospace Engineering faculty at UC for 30 years before retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2016 and moving to Savannah with his wife, Carol Kramberg-Walker. They are members at Mickve Israel. 

Secretary

The Rev. Guillermo A. Arboleda (he/him) is the Missioner for Racial Justice in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. This work includes community organizing, political advocacy, training others in antiracist leadership, and theological research about criminal justice policy. He is now also the Program Manager for New Church Starts for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He has degrees from Messiah University and Duke University Divinity School. A grandchild of Ecuadorian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican immigrants, Guillermo is married to the Rev. Kelly Steele (Rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Savannah). He enjoys watching sports and movies, creating music, video games, CrossFit, and yoga.