Thanks to Jane Kenamore for extending her term as an Endowment Trustee and making an important contribution to the continuity and competence of the Endowment Fund Committee!

Jane served as Chair of the Endowment Trustees in 2019-2020, which was the final year in her term as a Trustee. She had been working with the Trustee who was to be the Chair in the current 2020-21 church year, when that person had to unexpectedly resign. Jane agreed to stay on as a Trustee and Co-Chair with Margaret Schatz, who Jane has mentored to be the 2021-22 Chair. Jane will continue working with Endowment after her additional year as Trustee and Co-Chair. As Chair and then Co-Chair of Endowment, Jane spent time reviewing the by-laws to make sure they reflected current practices and she is now a member of the Endowment Task Force which is looking at Endowment best practices.

Jane has been a member of UCE for over 30 years, and over that time she has served in other leadership positions. She was one of the first members of the Worship Arts Team and continues to be an important member of that Team. She is also a dedicated choir member, who was part of the visioning and implementing process for securing our section leaders.

Thank you, Jane, for being very professional, very thorough, and very knowledgeable!

Our Hats are Off to our 2021-22 Pledge Drive Team – Marianne Griebler, Tom Carlton, Susan Carlton, Tom and Alicia Hempfling, and Susan Comstock – for your creativity, wisdom, expertise, and enthusiasm. Marianne has put heart, soul, and mind into making our first ever virtual pledge drive a success. You really know how to celebrate people’s time, talent and treasure. Tom Carlton contributed his skill and expertise working with our database and analyzing our shared giving history. Susan Carlton and Susan Comstock helped to organize our pledge drive celebration, and Tom and Alicia Hempfling made the evening so fun and engaging. Thanks to Adam Gough for your technical help during the event.

The commitment of our members and friends to the mission of UCE has been evident in the number of pledges pouring in, most of them meeting or exceeding our ask. Thanks to all of you who have contributed so far, and know that we still need your pledge if you haven’t yet sent it in.

Thanks to the artists who contributed their work for thank you postcards – Peggy Boccard, Allyson Hunter, Rory Presto, Kathy Talmage, Johna and Will Van Dyke, Maggie Weiss, and Maggie Wilson. Thanks to Amy Dooley for her beautiful tree graphic conveying how our pledge dollars contribute to the mission of UCE. Thanks to Marianne Griebler, Shirley Adams, Melanie Kitchner, and Carolyn Laughlin for writing all those thank you notes. And finally, thanks to our amazing Communication Coordinator, Jessica Meis, for sending all those emails, entering all those pledges, and promoting the drive so well.

We really are a collaborative team, a shared ministry of time, talent and treasure!

Thank you all.