Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Michael Jones brings more than three decades of nonprofit management, government relations, and public relations to the position of Executive Director of COTW.
Jones is the former Washington, DC Representative for the Middle East Affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce representing more than 1,700 American companies, in ten nations, across the Arabian Peninsula. Jones is a Registered Federal Lobbyist with the United States Senate.
Jones now resides in the Greater Boston Area with his daughter and husband where he endeavors daily to run the administration of COTW, engage in community and public relations, and raise vital funds to help meet the needs of Waltham’s unhoused population.
Director of Chaplaincy and Programs
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A native of New England Marc attended Humboldt State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara, CA before returning New England in 1988. Prior to ministry Marc worked for many years as a computer programmer, training consultant, and software manager in southern New Hampshire. He earned his degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2004, and served congregations in Fayetteville, AK, and Waltham MA before retiring from parish ministry in 2021. Marc’s personal passions include advocating for justice, nurturing community, cooking, baking, and gardening.
Bill Hoch
Staff Pastor
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Bill Hoch lives in Newton and started volunteering with Chaplains on the Way when he was a lay member of the United Parish of Auburndale. In part, as a result of this volunteering, Bill stopped full-time work as a lawyer and went to Boston University School of Theology to enter ministry. Bill received his Master of Divinity degree and is a Pastor at the Woburn United Methodist Church in Woburn MA. Bill currently works two mornings a week with Chaplains on the way and enjoys walking the streets and river walks in Waltham to meet folks, sitting for tea with folks at breakfast, and helping lead Wednesday morning worship at the gazebo. Bill has a heart for servant ministry and believes we are all called to service in some form. Bill is married and has two sons.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Louise Rachin
President
With over forty years of experience in long-term care, congregate care, affordable assisted living, in Executive Director and Marketing Director roles, Louise brings a wealth of experience,
knowledge, and compassion to Chaplains on the Way.
She has served as a volunteer for the Framingham Civic League Meals Program, Big Brother
Friends of the Elderly, the South Shore Women’s Center Domestic Abuse Hotline, the Pastoral
Care Team of First Parish Medfield and the Lakeside Café LGBTQ Senior Luncheon. In May 2024
Louise participated in her 30th Project Bread Walk for Hunger. In her spare time she enjoys
traveling, cycling, hiking, gardening, sewing, reading and spoiling her six grandchildren.
Alan Cantor
Vice President
The Rev. Alan Cantor joined the board in the fall of 2020. Prior to that, he served the COTW community as a ministerial intern while attending the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies. He is an active member of his Unitarian Universalist Church serving as a Worship Associate and as a member of the Lay Pastoral Care Team. Alan is an avid bicyclist and has participated in the Pan-Mass Challenge supporting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for over 30 years. In addition to his volunteer efforts, Alan is a spiritual life coach guiding men to having more peace in their lives. He is the father of four, grandfather of four and lives in Framingham.
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Maurie Fox-Warren
Treasurer
Anine de Grood
Originally from the Netherlands, Anine grew up atheist but found a religious connection in the practice of classical dance from India. After moving to the US with her Indian husband Kuldeep in 2002, she was active in Unitarian Universalist churches for several years before slowly converting to Christianity. Now she is a passionate preacher of Jesus’ message of love and inclusion, and a Member in Discernment in the United Church of Christ. Anine has a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a Masters in Divinity from Boston University, and did her internship at United Parish of Auburndale and at Agape Spiritual Community. She has two teenage children, and she teaches piano and Indian dance part-time.
Paul Pintus