Contributor Profile

Rydell Payne

Rydell Payne served as executive director of Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries (CALM) from 1999 to 2017. Prior to CALM, Rydell spent 12 years with Charlottesville’s Community Attention Therapeutic Foster Care Program.

Payne participated in the Spring Institute for Lived Theology 2008 and 2009 as well as the Lived Theology and Community Building Workgroup and the City and Congregation Workgroup.