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B.J.
WEBER, PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rev.
William John (B.J.) Weber has lived and served in New York City since
1979. Upon first coming to Manhattan, B.J. started a street ministry,
where for five years he served in rescue and recovery efforts with
addicts, prostitutes, teenage runaways and the homeless, while co-pastoring
a mission church in Times Square.
In 1984, B.J. founded the New York Fellowship, an interdenominational
ministry, which provides spiritual direction, counseling and pastoral
care to leaders in the business and professional communities of the
New York City area.
For more than a dozen years, B.J. served as Chaplain for the World Series
Champion New York Yankees. He is the co-founder of more than 25 inner-city
ministries, including the East Harlem Little League, Youth Impact,
Pregnancy Help, Brooklyn Little League, and Kids to Camp Program. He also
was co-founder of the Amistad Mission Clinic and Orphanage in Bolivia,
and has been the catalyst for launching other endeavors that reflect
Christ’s love for those in need.
B.J. Weber is an ordained minister, attended the Presbyterian Seminary
in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated with a B.S. in psychology at Iowa
State University in 1971. During seminary, he lived for six years
as a non-vowed monk, attached to the New Melleray Trappist Monastery
in Iowa, where upon a casual visit to buy their homemade bread, he
first came to faith in Christ. He worked and lived for those seminary
years in relationship with their sister Trappistine convent, Our Lady
of the Mississippi Abbey, whose chaplain, as well as the abbess, provided
spiritual direction and mentoring during B.J.'s early years in faith.
Since 1980, B.J. has been married to his wife, Sheila, a journalist
and public relations consultant, who has also been vitally instrumental
in the founding and managing of the New York Fellowship. They run
a hospitality house in midtown Manhattan, which serves visitors from
all over the world and hosts ongoing dinners and outreach events.
They have a grown son and daughter.
SHEILA
M. WEBER, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Sheila
Weber is co-founder of the New York Fellowship. A native of the Washington,
D.C. area, Sheila has worked as a U.S. Senate press aide, a staff
writer at"McCall's" magazine, an actress and media spokesperson for
the JESUS film project, solo vocalist, and director of public relations
for a large international rehabilitation facility. Sheila has an honors
degree in Journalism and Economics from American University, and was
a President's Scholar for her Masters in Management (public policy
focus) from New York University. Sheila is director of many public
relations and communications endeavors--The National
Preaching Initiative sponsored by The Wilberforce Forum, the Bible
Literacy Project, an effort to increase study and literacy of the
Bible in American public schools, and THE BETTER HOUR, a documentary film about William Wilberforce, which aired on national public television. Most recently, she attained prestige media coverage for two renowned scholarly reports--"Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing" and "For a New Thrif: Confronting the Debt Culturt"--released by the Institute for American Values.
She
served six years on the Vestry of Calvary-St. George's Church, a dual parish,
located on historic Gramercy and Stuyvesant Parks. She is currently launching a new collaborative effort to celebrate National Marriage Week USA to strengthen marriage and reduce divorce rates. Sheila has been
vitally instrumental in supervising and managing The New York Fellowship.
She serves an ongoing
hospitality ministry of fellowship, outreach events, dinner gatherings,
overnight guests, and hosting travelers from around the world, through
the New York Fellowship hospitality house in midtown Manhattan.
CATE
CAPOZZI
Cate
Middleton Capozzi moved to New York City as a teenager to pursue a
modeling career. Instead of finding fame and fortune, she discovered
a revived personal relationship with Christ, that had begun in childhood,
and ultimately led her into fulltime Christian service in New York
City.
Cate
attended New York School of the Bible, served as a deaconess in her
church, participated in street evangelism and developed a love of
God's Word. She served as a volunteer with Business & Professional
Outreach International (BPO), led outreaches, taught Bible studies,
trained church teams for the outreach home dinner parties that BPO
developed. In 1994, Cate joined the fulltime staff of BPO. At the
end of 2004, the BPO branch in New York was absorbed back into the
ministry that originally helped launch BPO—the New York Fellowship.
Cate now serves as fulltime staff with the New York Fellowship and
continues to lead Bible studies, outreaches for business persons,
and Bible study/support groups for women, as well as serve women in
need, and speak at women's retreats and conferences. She also pursues
her own academic study at City Seminary.
Cate
lives with her husband, Paul, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
and they enjoy world travel and cooking together. Cate is an avid
reader, cyclist and animal lover.
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Robert
Case
Chairman
Managing Director, Citigroup
Arlo
Johnson
President and CEO, Johnson Associates, Japan
Daniel
R. Reese
Secretary, Treasurer
Executive Vice President, Unishippers Inc.
Deenie
Reese
Vice President
Retired, Partner, Ernst & Young
David Slade,
Partner, Allen and Overy, LLP
William
J. Weber
President
Founder and Executive Director, New York Fellowship