Rauni graduated from Tyndale in 1994 with a BRE and in 2008 with an MTS. She is an ordained minister with a background in social work and cross-cultural missions.

A founding member of the Philip Aziz Centre, she presently serves as its Executive Director. The Centre is a community-based hospice program that provides practical, emotional and spiritual support to persons living with AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses in the comfort of their own home.

Much of her hospice work involves research, community networking and consultation, program development, recruitment and training of staff and volunteers, pastoral and spiritual care, AIDS and hospice education among the faith community and, most recently, establishing a residential pediatric hospice in Toronto called Emily’s Place.

Rauni believes that the greatest expression of our love for God is unconditionally loving our neighbour: “To be loved and to share love is at the core of our humanity and the yearning of every heart.”

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