
2025-2026 Mission Year
2025-2026 Budget
2025-2026 Nominating Committee
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Tracy Ashlock is from Pittsburgh, PA, but came to Berkeley in August 2000 for Optometry School at UC Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley she heard about this wonderful new church in Berkeley called Church Without Walls. She met her husband, Hans, at this church and they now have 3 sons: Luke (age 17), Jesse (age 14) and Gabe (age 11). They also recently have a host daughter from Afghanistan: Noorya (age 18). Tracy loves being a mom and is currently a stay at home mom. She also serves at CWOW as a prayer minister, life group leader, and nominating committee member. Some of her favorite activities include gardening and yoga.
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Brittany Chen has been a member of Church Without Walls since 2017. CWOW's commitment to racial justice, equity, and radical generosity attracted her and her family to the community - they had us at hello. The deep relationships, authentic way CWOW wrestles with animating our faith in a broken world, and the opportunity to bring people into the community over the years has kept her here. One fun fact is her family moved to Albany for the specific purpose of living closer to CWOW's community, though it made little practical sense for Mike (her husband's) commute. In her day job, she is the Vice President for Health Equity at a national public health nonprofit - Health Resources in Action. She has two awesome kids - Ethan (rising 8th grader) and Acadia (rising 4th grader), a grown son Tevin, and the cutest dog Linus (age 16). For fun, she enjoys hiking, singing and musical theater, travel, and eating (especially Mike's delicious cooking).
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Jim Chow Trotter, originally from Southern California, has lived in the Bay Area since attending UC Berkeley. He has been a part of CWOW since moving back to Berkeley from San Francisco and marrying Deanna. Having had his own practice for the last 20+ years, he is a licensed architect that enjoys serving the community with his work. He is grateful for how CWOW has brought him back to the core values of discipleship and community. He is currently co-leading a Life Group and a member of the Congregational Care, Prayer Ministry and Tech Teams. He looks forward to serving our church community through the Elder nominating process. In his free time, he enjoys the occasional trail run, swimming at the YMCA, checking out the latest architectural projects and popular local eateries with his wife.
2025-2026 Elder Team
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Deanna Chow Trotter joined Church Without Walls as a young college grad and spent her most formative adult years as a part of this community. Twenty-plus years later, she's deeply grateful for how CWOW has been instrumental in shaping her faith; the ways she has been mentored, fed (both literally and spiritually), and experienced the transforming love and power of Jesus through this church. She is currently a member of a Life Group, the Prayer Ministry and Teaching teams, and a co-leader of the Racial Justice Leadership Team. Deanna thrives at the intersection of vision and implementation, and she looks forward to applying her knack for strategy and planning—along with her communications gifts—to her role as an Elder. In her free time, Deanna can be found in line for tasty local eats, admiring architectural design with her architect husband, cheering (loudly) for the Golden State Warriors, and waiting for the next Wordle!
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Loretta Matty moved from Davis to Berkeley after graduation to attend Church Without Walls in 1998. Loretta is one of the longest serving members of "CWOWers with dogs" club - currently 2 Goldendoodles named Merry and Pippin - previously having Jack since 2006 until his death in 2019. She was a computer programmer in college up until 2022 when she stopped working to see what might be next. So far it has meant birding, golfing and hanging out with the dogs as well as being on the Prayer Ministry Team, Teaching Team and most recently serving on the Pastoral Search Committee.
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Wes Reed has resided in Berkeley for the past 4 decades. He has enjoyed being a part of Church Without Walls along with his family since the early days. He works as the IT Director for Rubicon Programs, a social service nonprofit that provides job, housing and other support services in order to break cycles of poverty in the East Bay. He has held many different roles at CWOW over the years. He currently helps support CWOW’s financial management and is a part of the Racial Justice Leadership team. He enjoys cooking at home and exploring the great outdoors: hiking, backpacking, and cross country skiing.
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Erin Schweng has been a member of Church Without Walls since it all began twenty-plus years ago. She grew up in Castro Valley, CA, and lived and worked as an educator in Berkeley Unified School District for over 22 years before moving back to Castro Valley in 2020. She now works in the UC Berkeley School of Education. Over the years in CWOW, she has served as a small group/life group leader, prayer team member, and was Chair of the elder team that saw CWOW through our last transition to a permanent pastor from 2013-2015. She brings to this work a deep conviction that the leadership and conflict-resolution skills she gained from her work as a Principal at Berkeley High School will be valuable as CWOW finds its way through a challenging season. She lives with her housemate and fellow CWOW member Loretta Matty in Castro Valley, and spends a fair amount of time enjoying the company of two delightful goldendoodle pups, Merry and Pippin. She is also, definitely, the one you may notice is knitting through church service most weeks.
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John Winkleman was raised in Sunnyvale, CA and attended Santa Clara University. During his college years, John recommitted himself to faith and served as a student leader within Campus Ministry and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. He moved to the East Bay in 1997 after joining a creative marketing agency in West Berkeley. John started attending Church Without Walls in 2000 out of a conviction toward greater commitment – to plant himself in one place and grow. During that first year, he was a regular scripture reader, joined CWOW’s tutoring ministry, and co-led a small group with Kim (Mullan, at the time). Little did he know where that call to commitment would lead! John and Kim married in 2002 and bought their home in West Berkeley in 2003. They have two sons who were baptized and raised in CWOW: Danny (21) attends Sacramento State University, and Jacob (18) is a senior at Berkeley High and will attend Parsons School of Design in New York. John has co-led a couple of men’s life groups at CWOW and has served as a Godly Play storyteller and assistant for many years. CWOW has had a profound impact on John and his family. He looks forward to continuing to serve our community in this season.
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Timothy Zenor-Davis attended Church Without Walls (CWOW) as a non-believer, and shortly after he received Christ. He has been a follower for twenty-plus years. Although CWOW was Tim’s only church home as an adult, he was baptized Catholic as an infant and spent several years attending church with his family until he was seven years old. Tim is a Bay Area native, born in San Francisco and formed in Berkeley/El Cerrito/Richmond. Very few people are fortunate enough to have their vocation align with the job they hold to pay the bills. However, Tim has been able to live true to his passion for social and racial justice by holding senior positions in nonprofit organizations that help bring reparation and positive change to people’s lives. Whether working with groups of diverse youth to help them find their unique voices through the arts or working with marginalized communities to bring access to resources through equity-based programs, he is committed to engaging in the necessary trouble that leads to justice. Tim has brought that calling to activism to CWOW’s racial healing ministry as a Racial Justice Leadership Team (RJLT) member. This group of like-minded brothers and sisters helps to lead CWOW in exploring, identifying, and redeeming racial relationships broken by systemic and structural racism within the church and in the world. Tim served two terms on CWOW’s Elder team and shares the duty of making weekly announcements at Sunday Celebration. Tim resides in West Berkeley with his wife of 24 years, Deborah (Children’s Ministry Director), daughter Hadassah (21), and son Isaiah (16).
Bylaw Amendment
In order to reflect our current processes, article 5, Section 1, Number 4, was changed from the following:
Responsibilities. The nominating committee shall be responsible for nominations to fill the offices of Leadership Team, the at-large members of the nominating committee, the at-large members of the congregational relations committee, and any other positions assigned to it either by the Leadership Team or congregation.
To this simplified passage, deleting the mention of the “congregational relations committee”:
Responsibilities. The nominating committee shall be responsible for nominations to fill the offices of Leadership Team, the at-large members of the nominating committee, and any other positions assigned to it either by the Leadership Team or congregation.