Carol Bremer-Bennett is World Renew’s U.S. Executive Director. As director, she oversees their work in 30 countries around the globe in poverty & hunger alleviation as well as disaster response. She is born to the To’aheedliinii (Waters Flow Together) Clan and born for the Todich’iinii (Bitter Water) Clan of the Navajo Nation. Bremer-Bennett is an educator by training, with a B.A. from Calvin College and M.A. from Western New Mexico University.
Her extensive experience in Christian ministry spans more than 35 years of organizational leadership, leadership development, and administration.
Carol believes in the power of community and shares her passion and gifts with her church, school and like-minded international organizations. She has served on multiple boards, including Calvin University, Christian Alliance for Inclusive Development, Growing Hope Globally, and currently chairs the Integral Alliance.
Creation tells a story of relationship, interdependence, and abundance. So do communities around the world. Beginning with the Indigenous wisdom of the Three Sisters, Carol Bremer-Bennett invites us to look again at how we understand resilience, development, and our place within God’s creation. Drawing on World Renew’s experience walking alongside communities around the world, she will explore what we discover when we begin with the strengths, wisdom, relationships, and God-given gifts already present in a community. What changes when development becomes less about what we bring and more about how we listen, learn, and flourish together? And perhaps there is another sister waiting to be discovered.