The Rev. Barbara Heck
Barbara started to work as RPCM’s first campus minister in August 2001 and has been working along side the Governing Board ever since.

She began her career in campus ministry at the Protestant Cooperative Ministry at Cornell in 1988 in Ithaca, NY. She has since served as Interfaith Coordinator at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA, and as a program associate for the Westminster Foundation at Princeton University.

Barbara Is an honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and has studied visual art at Art Center College of Design, the School of Visual Art in NY and Cornell University.

She currently serves as the chair of Committee on Higher Education of the Presbytery of New Brunswick.

She loves rowing with the Carnegie Lake Rowing Association, painting portraits and still life in oil with Gregory Perkel at the Arts Council of Princeton,
and raising her two children, Arthur and Eric Nelson, with her husband, Rob Nelson.

Calvin Nadir Powell
Biography:
Minister Calvin Nadir Powell is a member of Cathedral International located in Perth Amboy New Jersey where Bishop Donald Hilliard Jr. is his pastor. He serves as a minister of the word, worship leader, and psalmist. He is a graduate of Rutgers University where he received a BA degree and presently he is completing his last semester at New Brunswick Theological Seminary where he’ll receive his Master of Divinity in December 2006. Currently, Minister Powell is a campus minister at Rutgers University at the Trinity House under the Rutgers Campus Protestant Ministries.

On campus, Nadir has teamed up with EOF and Black Men’s Collective to help fortify African American men on campus. He believes that spirituality is one of the main ingredients where individuals become whole persons. He hosts a weekly Bible study group during the academic year at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. He helps the Trinity House get involved with urban outreach in the city of New Brunswick. In June 2006, we partnered with Elijah’s Promise to help with their block party/health fair. We currently serve at the soup kitchen of Ebenezer Baptist Church feeding the hungry and homeless on Tuesdays. Furthermore, Nadir has helped Trinity House partner with the Mid-State Black Nurses Association where together they joined the Presbyterian Church on Livingston Avenue to provide free screenings at their neighborhood block party in New Brunswick in July 2006.

Minister Powell is on fire for Christ. He loves the Lord with all of his heart and that Romans 12: 1 is his scripture that he stands by. “I beseech you therefore, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” He believes that in order to do the work that God has called us to; we must present ourselves as a living sacrifice and mentors students to do likewise.

Erika Jones
Erika is a senior serving as RPCM's Peer Minister in her second year of service. She is a natural leader who leads us out into the world to serve those in need. Working with Hillel, we go into NYC to serve the hungry and homeless with the Midnight Run. She is currently working on an Inter-Generational Inter-Faith Initiative to deliver packages and host a meal for senior citizens, currently known as RU Dorot. She is also active in NJ Blood Services. An art history and political science major, she is active in student government at Douglass and is one savvy girl when it comes to Robert's Rules! What a good Presbyterian!

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