E-mail: president@iccrs.org

Cyril John

Cyril John was born in Kerala, India, in 1957. He received the baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1982 and was called to CCR leadership in 1991. He was previously Coordinator of the Delhi Crusaders (an intercession ministry); a prayer group leader in Delhi (up until 1994); Chairman of the Delhi Service Team; Coordinator of the National Intercession Network, and Vice-Chairman of the National Service Team of the CCR in India. Cyril is currently Chairman of the National Service Team since 2001, a member of ICCRS Council since 2004 and the Chairman of ICCRS Sub-Committee for Asia-Oceania (ISAO) since 2006.

Cyril works as a Deputy Secretary in Lok Sabha, Lower House of the Indian Parliament, and lives in New Delhi with his wife, Elsamma, and their four children, Eugene, Jeril, Merline and Caroline. Cyril is the publisher of Charisindia magazine and author of the books Spurred by the Spirit and Come, let us Celebrate the Holy Eucharist. Several articles by Cyril have been published in journals in India and abroad. In April 2007 Cyril was elected Vice-President of ICCRS.

E-mail: cyriljohn@vsnl.net

Br. Robert C. Canton

Robert was born in Cebu City, Philippines, on 22 June 1951. He came to the United States in June 1973 after obtaining a B S Accounting Degree. He has been a resident of Stockton, California until now. In 1977 he married Chita Romero and they have two daughters, Stephanie and Tricia. Robert and Chita received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1984 – an experience that radically changed their lives. In December 1984 Robert received a prophecy from the Lord regarding his involvement in the healing ministry.

In March 1985 he was asked to take over as servant leader of the Children of God Prayer Group at the parish of St. Luke, and in 1989 the group started to have a monthly Mass and Healing Service which continues to this day. In March 1996, the Alliance of Filipino Catholic Charismatic Prayer Communities (AFCCPC) was formally convened and Robert was elected as the National Coordinator, an office which he still holds. Robert was a member of the National Service Committee in the United States until 2006. He has been a member of the Association of Christian Therapists and the Filipino Pastoral Committee in his Diocese of Stockton.

He has spoken at regional, national, and international conferences, and has conducted retreats, seminars, Days of Renewal, Healing Rallies and Crusades in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Apart from all the work that he does for the Lord, Robert has worked as an Auditor-Appraiser for the San Joaquin County Assessor’s office since 1973. He joined the ICCRS Council in June 2006 and represents English-speaking North and Central America and Carribean.

E-mail: rccanton@sbcglobal.net

Maria Eugenia Figueroa de Góngora
Maria (Sheny) was born in Guatamala in 1956. In 1976 she and her fiancé Rafael (who she had met when they were studying accountancy together) were baptised in the fire of the most high whilst on a Life in the Holy Spirit retreat.

From the time of that decisive encounter began the wonderful adventure of walking with Jesus Christ and His Church, in order to serve it. She and Rafael were called to be a part of the Service Team as auxiliaries and later as servants. They undertook various courses of formation and were married in 1980. The charisms that the Lord has granted to them include the gift of prophecy (1983) which led them to start the central American vigils for peace, now the Latin American vigils, which constitute one of the major activities of the year. Later, they were called to advise the Archdiocesan Consul on the pastoral needs of youth. This led Sheny to the decisions that she should work full time for the CCR. She started by coordinating one area of teaching and later, took on the whole Archdiocesan coordination of the CCR, then was asked to take over as servant .

Today she is the National Coordinator of the CCR of Guatamala and vice president of the Latin American Catholic Charismatic Council (CONCLAT). She is a part of the Executive of the National Commission of Missions and of the Department of Lay Movements and New Ecclesial Communities of the Episcopal Conference. The Lord has given her two children Adriana and Rafael junior who also serve the Lord in their prayer group and many events. In love with Jesus Christ and Our Blessed Lady Mary the whole family have decided to follow the Lord asking for the strength of the Holy Spirit to let them persevere to the end.

E-mail: sheny@hotmail.com

 

E-mail: jgrech@sand.catholic.org.au

E-mail:darek@odnowa.opoka.org.pl

Jean Pliya

Jean Pliya was born on July 21st 1931 in Benin. He is married with Rose and they have seven children. He was a geography teacher, vice chancellor of the National University, a deputy of the Minister of Information. He started to write books, also, won the prize for Black Africa Literature in 1967 and was awarded the Officer of Arts of the French Republic. In the service of the Church, he was president of the “Association of Catholic Students” in France, a member of the pontifical council “Justice and Peace” and in 1994, Pope John Paul II invited him to attend the African bishops’ synod.

In 1977 he started to experience the Charismatic Renewal. The first charismatic prayer meeting in his country took place in his own family. Since he retired in 1990, he has been serving full time the Lord and the Charismatic Renewal. He wrote three books concerning the faith.

Since September 2000 he has been elected member of the ICCRS Council representing French-speaking Africa.

E-mail: jeanpliya@yahoo.fr

Br. James Shin

Brother James Shin was born in Korea on 5 May 1955 to a poor family and grew up in the aftermath of the Korean War. After completing school he studied medicine at the Catholic University of Korea, - Graduating in Medicine in 1980. He had trained 4 years as a doctor at St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul where he specialized in Internal Medicine.

Always committed to serving the Lord and his church from 1988 to 1990 he served as a Volunteer medical doctor serving the abandoned poor at Kkottongnae. Kkottongnae is notable for not only being one of the major social welfare facilities in Korea but under the leadership of the Founder Father Oh, it has become a major focal point of the Charismatic Prayer Movement. Br. James was baptized in the spirit in 1989. Finally in July 1990 that commitment was expressed in his joining the religious Congregation of the Kkottongnae Brothers of Jesus. He organized the Kkottongnae religious charismatic committee in 1996 and became a chairman of the committee. He is a member of the Board of the Korean National Charismatic Renewal Service. He was elected as a Superior of the congregation of the Kkottongnae brothers of Jesus in 2001 and re-elected in 2004.

He started the Holy spirit seminar for the youth in Kkottongnae Hyundo social welfare University and began the monthly vigil prayer meeting of the young people in Korea. He has been organizing the 2006 holy spirit conference of world youth. From June 2006, he is part of the ICCRS Council, representing ICCRS in Central, East and South East Asia.

E-mail: ingok55@hanmail.net

Peter Thompson

He was born in London, England in 1939 and married in 1962 with Madeleine. They emigrated to Canada in 1967. After a crisis in their marriage and in faith, in 1974, they were introduced to the Charismatic Renewal and experienced a new life in Christ through the Life in the Spirit seminars. God began to heal their marriage. A love of Sacred Scripture developed together with a love for the Eucharist and the Church. Peter then started a teaching ministry at local and provincial levels.

In 1990 He and his wife were invited to undertake a trial mission with Sion Catholic Community for evangelization in England. On their return to Canada they continued to offer parish missions based on the Sion model and in recent years they have been called more to teaching in many subjects including evangelization, Catholics apologetics, Church history, charisms of the Holy Spirit etc.

This has included speaking at the John Paul II Catholic Bible School, conferences, parish retreats and missions. In 1996 he was invited to Eritrea and spoke at the country’s 20th anniversary of the Renewal. He has since returned to Africa to serve in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania. For three years he has served as chairman for the Catholic renewal network of Alberta and is he Alberta representative to the National Service Committee in English speaking Canada. From 2000 he represents ICCRS in the French and English Canada.

E-mail: peter4god@shaw.ca

Fr. Renato Tisot

Born at Colma di Barbiano, in Italy, in 1935, he undertook his formation at the Seminary of Trento up until 1959, the year of his ordination as a priest. Alternating his pastoral ministry with periods of study he graduated in modern literature from the Catholic University and then specialised in fundamental theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. He is currently a teacher in catholic schools and Vicerector and lecturer at the Seminary of Trento.

In 1970 he visited the United States where he came across the newly born Catholic Charismatic Renewal. He became enthusiastically involved in it and took part in the first great priests’ retreats in New Jersey and Ohio. He also helped to found and participated in charismatic prayer groups in New York State and later in Florida. He returned to Italy (Trento) in 1978 and started a full time programme of prayer and evangelisation. He opened a house of prayer with an existing vocational community and helped to spread the Renewal which had already begun in Italy, both locally and nationally. Don Renato was also sent abroad on both brief and longer term charismatic missions to Australia, India and Africa.

In 1994, he founded the ADIM (Alleanza Dives in Misericordia) an ecclesial canonical association recently included in the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Associations of pontifical right (CFCCF). Since 2004 he is part of the ICCRS Council, representing ICCRS in Southern Europe.

E-mail: adim@adim.it

E-mail: emmanusime@yahoo.com

 

Marcos Volcan was born on January 14, 1969, in Pelotas city, in the south of Brazil.
He is the first of five children of Helder and Maria Volcan; they encountered the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1981 through a Prayer Group. From this time on the whole family has been engaged in the Church's affairs, most specifically in the Renewal.
Since 1990 Marcos has been engaged in many activities for the Youth in his diocese. He graduated in Agronomy with the title of Agronomic Engineer and Master in Science and has become a professor in the Catholic University of Pelotas.
He is married to Sandra Volcan and has three children.
Marcos was chosen to be state coordinator of the Renewal (Rio Grande do Sul State) in 1998, and, as a result, became a member of the National Council for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Brazil, where he has taken on the Commission of Formation.
He has also graduated in Theology, with a specialization in Systematic Theology, developing thesis regarding the CCR entitled: Catholic Charismatic Renewal: a theological and pastoral view.
In 2005, he was chosen as President for the National Council in Brazil. In 2008, he has been elected as representative of the ICCRS in Portuguese speaking Latin America.

E-mail: presidencia@rccbrasil.org.br
               mduv.sul@terra.com.br

 

Allan Panozza

Allan Panozza was born in 1933 in Geolong, Australia. Allan grew up with a love for the Sacramental life of the Church. In 1957 Allan married Carmel and they have 3 sons, 2 daugthters and 18 grandchildren. In February 1978, both Allan and Carmel received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and in 1983 Allan was elected Chairman of CCR in Melbourne. Allan has worked fulltime for CCR since 1985. He is the current Chairman of the National Service Committee for Australia and joined the ICCRS Council in 1991 as ICCRS representative to the Renewal in Oceania; since 2000, he has been the President of ICCRS.

In February 2002, Allan received an appointment from Pope John Paul II to be a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in Rome. Allan has ministered widely throughout Australia and a number of overseas countries. He has a particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and strongly promotes the devotion of Perpetual Adoration. Together with his parish priest he opened, in his own parish, a Chapel of Perpetual Adoration. He was President of ICCRS since 2000 until 2007.

E-mail: panozza@ccr.org.au

 

E-mail: Lopez@ccr.org.au

Oreste Pesare

Oreste Pesare was born in Foggia in 1960. He married Nunzia in 1988 and now they have three children: Giovanni, Serena and Andrea. He met the Charismatic Renewal in 1984 through a strong spiritual experience with God that changed his life completely.

Following the Lord’s guide, and with the support of his Comunità Magnificat – an Italian Covenant Community of which he has been the President for many years – in 1991 he decided to leave his job in order to work full-time for the Lord on a volunteer basis. During three years, while he spent most of his time preaching, Oreste and his family experienced the extraordinary power of Providence as they witnessed countless marvels of all sorts, small miracles as well as big ones.

In 1993, he was called by the Archbishop of Foggia to assist him as his personal secretary for about three years. The experience of serving so closely an Apostle of the Church was really for him a strong enrichment that brought Oreste to a special love for the Church. Actually he is the editor of "Venite e Vedrete" ("Come and See"), an Italian magazine serving Charismatic Covenant Communities.

He has been the director of ICCRS since 1996.

E-mail: director@iccrs.org