Staff
Kevin Holwerda-Hommes
Executive Director
Kevin has worked in education and youth development, community development, and combating hunger for over 20 years in the United States, Honduras and Guatemala. He has been director of Twin Parishes since 2016 and an active community member of the Cole neighborhood, where Twin Parishes is located, since 2008. He speaks Spanish and loves to be outdoors. His favorite thing about working at Twin Parishes is the sense of community amongst the volunteers and the interaction with the people TP serves, many of whom are neighbors.
Maria Sanchez
Client intake specialist
Maria was a volunteer at Twin Parishes before becoming the intake specialist in 2017. She is a valued member of the Twin Parishes team and also lives in the Cole neighborhood..
Father Charles Polifka, OFM Cap.
Pastor
Father Charles was ordained a Catholic priest in 1971. He served as a high school teacher and principal and president for eleven years, a novice master for four years, Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Province of Mid-America for 13 years, Pastor of St. John's Parish in Lawrence, Kansas for nine years, Pastor of St. Fidelis Parish in Victoria, Kansas for three years, Chaplain at Catholic Charities for two years, and now as Pastor of Annunciation Catholic Parish since 2014. He holds degrees in theology, secondary school administration, and Franciscan Spirituality.
Advisory Board
Scott C. Brown
Scott is the former owner and President of Medi-Dyn, Inc., In recent years, Scott has focused most of his time on working with a variety of community non-profits including healthcare foundations, food banks, foster children and his parish finance council. Previously, for 15 years, Scott and his wife Susan led a middle school youth group at St. Thomas More Parish to feed the homeless at St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s sandwich line. Scott has a passion for helping those in need in our community and he and his wife Susan are residents of Centennial, CO and have five children.
Brad Dusto
Brad was formerly the President of Comcast West Division and Chief Technology Officer. He began as a volunteer at Twin Parishes over 15 years ago, was Executive Director for 3 years, and is a current Board member.
Andy Pendl
Our volunteers are what make Twin Parishes actually work. We have two part-time paid staff and 20-25 consistent volunteers. It takes approximately 120 volunteer hours a week for Twin Parishes to operate. Most of our volunteers have been serving at Twin Parishes for many years including one of our volunteers who has consistently been serving weekly for over 30 years! We are a diverse community with vastly different life experiences, ages, and language and cultural backgrounds. We eat a hot lunch together each day where we share food and life together. Volunteers are the backbone of our organization. Let us know if you’re interested in volunteering with us!!