The IRL Board of Directors

Itinerant Retreat Leaders, Inc.

Connecting Talented Retreat Leaders with Creative Retreat Centers

Itinerant Retreat Leaders, Inc. is led by a talented and diverse national Board of Directors.

Pegge Benecker - Spiritual Director and retreat leader, Editor of Listen, Spiritual Director International's newsletter for spiritual seekers, Kasilof, Alaska

Rev. Ricardo Flippin - Program Director for CARENet, a program of the West Virginia Council of Churches that provides and advocates for services for military veterans.  He is an American Baptist pastor and lives in Charleto, West Virginia.

Rev. Eugenia Gamble – Pastor of Community Presbyterian Church, retreat leader, author, Nipomo, CA

Ms. Jeaninee Gomersall – Consultant, Cleveland, OH, IRL Treasurer

Rev. Dr. Lee Goodwin - Director of The Sabbath Project, a ministry of the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA), Marinette, Wisconsin.

Judy L. Kroger, LPC - Pastoral Counselor, Coach, Consultant, and Educator for Professional Pastoral-Counseling Institute, Inc. and The Human Touch, Cincinnati, OH

Rev. Randall E. McGuire – Director of Camps and Retreat Ministries for the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church, Oklahoma City, OK

Rev. Babs M. Meairs, MDiv, MA, BCC - Field Coordinator for the Epicopal Church's Office of the Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies,  San Diego, CA

Rev. John D. Miller, D.Min. - Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, New Castle, PA, IRL Board President

Joyce Rothermel - Executive Director, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, Pittsburgh, PA

Rev. Stephen Row - A Prebyterian and American Baptist pastor and high school teacher in Buxton, Maine

Patrick Cleary-Burns is the Executive Director of Itinerant Retreat Leaders.