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Ray is originally from Reisterstown Maryland and graduated from UMD in 2004.  He has been a chaplain at Maryland since 2011.  He enjoys playing basketball, traveling, spending time with family and friends, and meeting new people. After college he spent a year serving in Argentina with Young Adults in Global Mission and spent another approximately two years in South America, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe before going back to seminary.  He has two young children and is a recipient of the James Carr Distinguished Service Award for Lutheran Campus Ministry.

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Email: rranker@umd.edu

Phone: (410) 294 - 6691

Beth is a graduate of a few schools and holds degrees in inconvenient subjects.  She spent five years volunteering with Hospice where she learned to live .  Allergic to sports, Beth enjoys books, animals and spending time with her best friend/husband.​

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Email: office.HopeCP@gmail.com

Phone: (301) 927 - 5508

Nicole P. Roop is completing her internship with The Humble Walk as a student at United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) where she is working towards a Masters in Ministerial Leadership to be an ordained Minister of Word and Service in the ELCA. Nicole is also an administrator at the University of Maryland in the Clark School of Engineering and earned her doctorate in education at George Washington University. Upon completing her degree at ULS, she hopes to be called as a campus chaplain or a seminary administrator. In her home congregation, Keysville Evangelical Lutheran Church, she serves as vice president of the Key Women and is the church's communications point person. Nicole resides near Gettysburg, PA and enjoys powerlifting, hiking Civil War battlefields, fishing on the Potomac River, spoiling her nephew & nieces, and spending time with her dogs and cats.

Bailey Sullivan is majoring in Sociology and Economics as well as minoring in Spanish. She is a Peer Research Mentor for FIRE Global Development and Design and also an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for ENGL101. She also helps teach a night class for ESL students. Other things that she is involved in include intramural sports such as volleyball, soccer, and flag football, ASTS tutoring, and CARing Kids- an after-school children’s program. She loves working with kids and is excited to continue to help serve the children's programs.