Board and Staff

Emmjolee is Associate Director of Campus Ministry and Community Service at Catholic University’s Office of Campus Ministry. She graduated from Catholic University with a BA in Politics and then volunteered for two years as a missionary serving in Punta Gorda, Belize. At CUA, Emmjolee worked to develop missionary programs in the United States, bringing college students back to Belize, as well as to Jamaica, Tanzania, Costa Rica, and Mexico. In addition, she has a master’s degree from the National Catholic School of Social Service focusing on social justice and social change.

Laura Rainey, OFS, is a Secular Franciscan, currently serving as Minister of the St. Anthony of Nagasaki fraternity. “SFOTony” meets at Franciscan Mission Service’s Casa San Salvador and is honored to provide an open space for future and returning missioners to join in monthly meetings and share their experiences. Laura participated in FMS’s 2014 short-term mission trip to Bolivia, where she witnessed first-hand the joyful ministry of presence provided by FMS missioners in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Carmen Pampa. Laura grew up around the world as an Army brat, graduated in 1991 with a degree in Accounting from St. Bonaventure University in NY, is a member of Holy Trinity parish in Georgetown, and works as an auditor at a Federal agency.

Pat is currently the Principal Director for Joint Operational Programs for Aerospace at the Goddard Space Flight Center in MD, supporting remote sensing and environmental monitoring and weather programs. She is a lector and Chair of the Finance Council for her parish in Reston, VA, St John Neumann, and also on the Board of Directors for InTrust and the Washington Theological Union.

Joshua Maxey is the Assistant Director of Communications at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Through vast personal and professional experiences, he appreciates the role of Franciscan Mission Service in providing opportunities for lay missioners and domestic volunteers to walk in solidarity with marginalized communities around the world. Josh served as a full-time volunteer for Franciscan Mission Service where he served as a part of the Inaugural Class of DC Service Corps. During his year of service, Josh served as the Vendor Manager for Street Sense Media, Inc–an an organization in the DC metro area whose mission is to eradicate homelessness by giving a voice and sharing the stories of the unhoused. In his spare time, he enjoys travel and exploring the DMV area. Josh is a member of Washington Hebrew Congregation where he sits on the SEA Change Racial Equity Committee, Co-Chair of the Internal Audit Committee, Chairperson of the Jews of Color Cohort as well as serving on the 2239 Young Professional Steering Committee. Josh is also a member of the Board of Directors for the National Bell Festival, an organization that works to restore bells and towers throughout the Washington, DC area. Josh is proud of his Western New York roots, where he grew up in Rochester, NY, and attended Saint Bonaventure University.

Paola Bonilla has over 5 years of experience working within the nonprofit sector with a focus on development/fundraising.

A jack of all trades, Paola has experience managing annual funds and scholarship programs, transitioning nonprofits from one Customer Relations Management (CRM) system to another, and supporting all aspects of fundraising and development offices.  Paola has demonstrated an ability to foster relationships and connect individuals to missions that best align with their core  values.

Paola received a Bachelor of Arts in French and Psychology from Albright College.

Margaret Carney, OSF, was the 20th President of St. Bonaventure University, a position she held from 2004 until July 2016. Prior to that, Sr. Margaret served as the dean and director of the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure. The Institute operates a center for research and textual scholarship in the field of Franciscan/medieval theology, history and philosophy and a school that educates leaders for the various branches of the Franciscan religious orders in the Catholic Church.

She holds master’s degrees from Duquesne University (theology) and St. Bonaventure University (Franciscan Studies) and her doctorate (theology) was awarded by the Franciscan university of Rome — the Pontifical University Antonianum.

Hans is a native of Omaha, Nebraska where he attended Creighton University. Prior to studying medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center he spent a semester as a volunteer in Tijuana, Mexico with a group of Franciscan Sisters. He trained in family medicine in Wichita Kansas. Shortly after his training he spent three years in Ocotepque, Honduras as a volunteer with Unbound. His focus during that time was working with children who were sponsored through Unbound, and collaborating with a group of Franciscan Sisters caring for severely malnourished children. Hans has worked since 2000 at a community health center in south Omaha that serves the primarily Hispanic population of that area. Since 2012 Hans has worked as the medical director for an Omaha-based non-profit called Chronic Care International (CCI). CCI provides care to patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure in the Dominican Republic. Hans’ wife, Andrea, is an elementary education teacher, and they have 3 adult children, Allison, Chris, and Rachel. Allison was an FMS volunteer in Bolivia.

Larry Hayes, OFM, a native of Mineola, New York, has been serving in pastoral ministry at St. Camillus Parish-Friary in Silver Spring, Maryland, since January. His previous assignments have included guardian of St. Mary’s Friary in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, and as parochial vicar at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in New York City. Before his election as provincial vicar in 2014, he served as the pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Durham, North Carolina. He also served as the pastor and guardian at St. Camillus Parish from 2002 to 2008, and as parochial vicar from 2008 to 2011. Larry professed his first vows as a Franciscan in 1984 and his final vows in 1988. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1989 and elected to the Provincial Council in 2011. Since 2014, Larry has served as the Province’s secretary for formation and studies.

Margaret Mary Kimmins, OSF, was born in Brooklyn and was raised in Broad Channel, Queens, NY. She entered the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, an intercultural congregation ministering in Jamaica, Brazil, Bolivia, Africa, (Mozambique), and the United States after graduating from St. John’s University in 1964. Previous to her re-election as Congregational Minister of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, she ministered at Bread for the World in Washington, D.C. She served as President of Franciscan Action Network, Vice President of Franciscans International, and served as liaison to the St. Elizabeth Mission Society.

Kelly McCracken is the president at Franciscan Media and has been with the organization since April 2014. Franciscan Media, a non-profit ministry supported by the Franciscan friars, publishes St. Anthony Messenger magazine, books, multiple e-newsletters, and has a substantial digital platform that receives almost a million visits per month. Franciscan Media’s mission is to share God’s love in the spirit of St. Francis, seeking to reach people where they are.

Prior to that she worked as the director of client relations at Aileron, a non-profit business training and consulting organization in Tipp City, Ohio.

Kelly and her husband, Mike, will celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 2020. They are the proud parents of two daughters—one a junior at Miami University in Ohio, and the other a junior in high school.

Brad was born is originally from Amsterdam, NY. He studied philosophy and Franciscan studies at St. Hyacinth College and Seminary in Granby, MA, and received a Master of Divinity degree from Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. In 1989 he professed final vows as a Conventual Franciscan friar, was ordained to the priesthood in 1993, and served for three years in parish ministry. From 1996 to 2000, Brad studied in Rome, Italy, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and was awarded a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 2000. After further post-graduate studies, Brad served in the interprovincial ministry of initial formation in both Indiana and the greater Washington, DC area. From 2010 to 2014, Brad was pastor of Assumption Church in Syracuse, NY. Brad is currently based in Chicago, where he serves as the Postulancy Director for Our Lady of the Angels Province.

Greg is an Associate Vice-President for Advancement at The Catholic University of America. Prior to his role at the University, Greg has worked in advancement for over twenty years with a focus on Catholic schools. Most recently, he was working with schools serving low-income communities both locally and nationally. Greg was an Expert-in-Residence for Advancement at the University of Notre Dame where he taught Catholic school leaders fundraising and development. Currently, Greg is responsible for managing all aspects of advancement for five of the twelve schools at Catholic University as well as athletics and family engagement.

Teresa Redder, OFS, is a Secular Franciscan and has served in every office of her local fraternity in New Jersey. She had a 30-year career as a senior program manager with Lockheed Martin. Prior to that, she served as a second lieutenant in the Air Force, after graduating from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.  She is involved in several ministries at her parish as well as prison ministry at the Burlington County men’s jail. She and her husband, Jeff, have been married 42 years and have four adult children.

Br. Jose Rodriguez was born in Eagle Pass, TX, but raised across the border in Piedras Negras, Mexico. After graduating from Law School in 1982, he worked in the legal system for about five years. In 1994, he joined the Postulancy Program of the Franciscan Friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Denver, CO, and attended the Inter-provincial Novitiate Program in Cedar Lake, IN from June 1995 to June 1996. Six of the eight novices that entered finished the year and made First or Simple Vows. In the Summer of 1996, he participated in the Inter-provincial Post-novitiate Program in Chicago, IL.

From there, Br. Jose attended Catholic Theological Union from 1996 to 1998. He then spent a year on the Navajo Reservation, in St. Michaels, AZ, dedicated to ministerial experience, before professing Solemn Vows on August 20, 1999 in Albuquerque, NM.

Between the year 2000 and 2002, he was assigned to St. Michaels, AZ to help with local ministries. From the Summer of 2002 through the spring of 2007, he worked in the Religious Education Program at Holy Family Catholic Church in Albuquerque, NM. From the Fall of 2007 to Summer of 2014, he was assigned as Guardian of his province’s first house for retired brothers, also in Albuquerque, NM. In the Fall of 2014, he took a one-year sabbatical at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. After sabbatical, he was again assigned to live and work on the Navajo Reservation, while at the same time being given the responsibility of leading the Office for Mission and Evangelization for the Province, a position that he holds to this day.

Currently he also represents the Officers for Mission and Evangelization for the different provinces off the English Speaking Conference. He is also a member of the board of the General Secretariat for the Franciscan Missions, based in Waterford, WI. He is working under the obedience of the Minister General as a member of the Executive Board for Mission and Evangelization tasked with preparing a new Ratio Evangelizationis for the Order.

He now resides in San Antonio, TX at a community formed by members of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Guadalupe Provinces.