Chris Godfrey

Chris Godfrey is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School where he taught Sports and Entertainment Law, and served as an intern for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General. He is a member of the Indiana Bar and member of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys. Prior to his legal career Chris played nine years of professional football. As the starting right guard for the Super Bowl XXI champion New York Giants in 1987, he earned honors as All-Pro NFL Films, and All-NFC (AP, UPI). He was also a member of three Rose Bowl teams with the University of Michigan. He is the founder and president of Life Athletes, Inc., an association of over 300 professional and Olympic athletes who teach and inspire young people to live lives of virtue, abstinence, and respect for life, www.lifeathletes.org. Chris is the author of the popular curriculums, That’s Where I Live: A Guide To Good Relationships, and See I Make All Things New. He is a frequent contributor to the National Catholic Educators Association and past president of the St. Joseph’s High School Board where he has also coached.  He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and currently serves as the Northern Indiana Chair for the Order of Malta.  He resides in South Bend, Indiana with his wife Daria and their six children.
  

Fr. Michael Lightner

As a standout athlete in high school, Michael accepted a full scholarship to play football at the University of Eastern Michigan. Standing 6 ft. 4 in, in height and possessing a massive build of 330 lbs, he the ideal candidate for the NFL's next offensive lineman. On a Pilgrimage to Medjugorje, with his Mother Joyce, the Lord called to him, to come play for His team. Through his incredible Confession, to seeing God's Healing Power first-hand, this college football-player was deeply moved by God's Divine Mercy. Father Michael is now the Director of Campus Ministries of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is also the Director of Apostolate of Prayer in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, WI.
   

Jack Jezreel holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Religion from Furman University and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame.  He spent six years in a Catholic Worker community, providing basic and emergency services to the homeless in Colorado, before directing his attention to transformative education, mostly focused on how to encourage Catholic parishioners to be engaged in outreach and social change.  Jack has over twenty-five years of experience working in parish ministry and spent eight of those years at a Catholic parish in Louisville, Kentucky developing a conversion-based justice formation program, JustFaith, which has had extraordinary results and has been recognized nationally as a potent strategy for empowering social ministry.  The three largest poverty-focused Catholic organizations in the country–Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services–and the largest ecumenical hunger-focused Christian organization in the U.S.–Bread for the World–are partners and promoters of JustFaith.  Over twenty-two thousand people in over 100 dioceses across the country have participated.  Jack currently is Executive Director of JustFaith Ministries, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports justice formation processes, and is a popular national speaker and teacher.  In 2006, he received the Harry A. Fagan Award for his unique contribution to the Church’s social mission.  He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, is married with Maggie, and they have three daughters.
  

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