Senior Director of Ministry Engagement

Bob Scott serves as the Senior Director of Ministry Engagement for Christians United for Israel, leading a team of coordinators across the country as well as being a national speaker for CUFI. His work focuses on connecting and resourcing pastors and churches and facilitates CUFI’s grassroots efforts within the Christian and Jewish communities. Before becoming Ministry Engagement Director, he served as City Director and then State Coordinator of Tennessee and has been involved in educating others and supporting Israel since his first trip there in 2008. Bob has served in full-time ministry since 1992 in various pastoral roles, statewide boards, and ministries, with experience in church planting and serving his community as a commissioned police officer and chaplain, certified in Crisis Intervention and Critical Incident Debriefing. Bob is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a Business Degree and has had governmental experience in local and statewide areas. Bob and his wife, Holly, have been married since 1995 and have three adult sons.

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Senior Director of CUFI High School and Middle School

Senior Director of Development

Hope Hernandez serves as the Senior Director of Development which works to advance the mission of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) while serving as a concierge to provide direct access to its initiatives for those who are financial partners with the organization.

Hope has spent over 10 years in the non-profit industry and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Communications and Intercultural Studies from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

She enjoys seeing people discover the truth about Israel and the Judeo roots of their faith while helping them find the intersection between passion and purpose to ensure this truth stands.

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Senior Director of Policy and Communications

Ari Morgenstern is CUFI’s Senior Director of Policy and Communications where he focuses on the organization’s policy planning and strategic communication campaigns. Previously Morgenstern served in the private sector as a communications consultant and as a Press Officer at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Morgenstern holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Alabama, an M.A. in Political Science from Georgia State University, and an M.A. in Government focused on Diplomacy and Conflict Studies from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. In the past Morgenstern volunteered for the Israeli police, and presently he volunteers for his local search and rescue team.

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Senior Director of Engagement

In 2006, Pastor John Hagee invited Randy to become CUFI’s first full-time grassroots organizer.  In this position, Randy pioneered the programming and procedures that have since been implemented nationally to grow CUFI into the largest pro-Israel organization in America. Randy came to CUFI with over a decade of experience in educating Christians about the Biblical mandate to support Israel, the history of Christian antisemitism, and political activism in the faith community. Randy has served on the Northwest board of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, and is among the most sought after Christian speakers on the topic of Israel and Christian support for the Jewish State.  According to Israel Defense Force Col. and Vice Commander Bentzi Gruber: “Randy gives important facts about Israel that even many Israelis do not know.

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Senior Director of CUFI on Campus

Kirby Calhoun serves as the Senior Director of CUFI on Campus. He is a thirteen-year Army combat veteran. During his military career, he served as a human intelligence collector and then went on to become a special forces communications sergeant. He deployed to Iraq in support of OIF 07/08, to Afghanistan in support of OEF 12/13, and to Colombia in 2014 in support of a Counter-Narcotics mission. Kirby published his testimony in 2019: Single Set of Bootprints: A Story of a God-made Green Beret. He earned his B.A. in Maritime Studies, minoring in history, from the University of West Florida. During his time at UWF, he founded the CUFI on Campus chapter and has been a Congressional Liaison since 2018. He and his wife Tara have two wonderful children and live in the Florida Panhandle.

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Senior Director of Operations

Tony Castro serves as the Senior Director of Operations for Christians United for Israel. Working closely with CUFI’s Founder and Chairman as well as its Co-Executive Directors, Tony oversees all events during the year including Israel Trips and all events happening throughout the United States. Tony also oversees the CUFI Shipping and Warehouse Department including inventory and overall efficiency. In addition to these tasks, he is the head of the CUFI Production Department and assists the UK office in strategically focusing their cause against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.