Ellen Livingood

Ellen Livingood founded Catalyst Services in 2005 and continues today as its director. With unique expertise built on wide experience in both agency and church, she brings to Catalyst an extensive background in communications, mission agency administration, mobilization, and consultation. For a number of years, she served as both coordinator of TEAM’s church partnerships office and director of global outreach at Grace Point Church in Newtown, PA. Today from a base in suburban Philadelphia, Catalyst serves the missions community across North America and around the globe, calling on the expertise of various other experienced mobilizers as needed.

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Written by Ellen Livingood

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Are We Serving Orphans?

Disturbing facts about the orphanage model are causing many churches to rethink their strategy for orphan ministry. Read more Read more...

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Passionate Love and Hearing

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Connecting Mission and Intercessory Prayer

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WEA Mission Commission

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Does Systemic Racism Exist in the Canadian Church?

Watching out for us-and-them thinking in our congregations and systemic racism in Canada Read more Read more...

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God’s Global Family

We get the “down payment” of our inheritance, the Spirit of God. Our unity rests on Christ and is proved by its fruit. Read more Read more...

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MAF medevacs Hollywood actor, Ashley Judd, after shattering her leg in the DRC

Activist, Ashley Judd recounts her 55-hour ordeal as she was medevacked to safety by MAF after sustaining severe leg injury during a wildlife trip Read more Read more...

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What on Earth is Happening?

What are the challenges that the Body of Christ are facing and what hope can Christians offer the world? Read more Read more...