Rachel Varghese lives in Bartlett, Illinois. In her own words, Rachel’s family “immigrated in the 1970s from the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India, and I was raised in a tight-knit Indian community, in an Indian immigrant church. This shaped my view of church as a family collective.” She is the Director of Communications at Renewal Church in West Chicago, IL, and currently homeschools her children. Rachel has a MA in Curriculum & Instruction (ESL Focus) from National-Louis University.