Teresa Flowers is a Deacon at Pilgrim Church in Beverly, MA and the Director of Pilgrim Church's Community Meals Program. She is a contributing author to the book Creative Ways to Build Christian Community, co-authored by Jeanne C. DeFazio and John P. Lathrop (2013). Jeanne C. DeFazio holds an MA in Religion from Gordon Conwell Seminary. She is currently an Athanasian Scholar at Gordon Conwell's Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston and the co-editor, with John P. Lathrop, of the book, Creative Ways to Build Christian Community (2013).