Every month we honor one of our many great volunteers.
Ashley Brannen Holt is the Volunteer of the Month for August. Ashley and her husband Jeremy had begun looking for a religious home in which to raise their family. This need was heightened for Ashley when her father committed suicide on January 3, 2014. The first Sunday Ashley was able to attend, Rev. Liz Lerner Maclay preached on being broken, loss, healing…
Jane Jackson is the July Volunteer of the Month. Jane came to UUCSS in 1984 with her husband John Acton searching for a community in which to raise their two-and-half-year-old daughter. They chose UUCSS because their upbringing conditioned them to go to the closest church. The first service they came to was on Canvass Sunday, and they heard Rev. Paul Johnson preaching…
Michael LeBlanc is the Volunteer of the Month for June. Michael has considered himself a Unitarian all his life. One of his most memorable moments as a young child was a Halloween service at the church where his mother was an RE teacher in which everyone dressed up in costume for the service and then…
Preston Mears is the Volunteer of the Month for May. Preston is an ordained and licensed Episcopalian priest, but his wife Laurie was born and raised Unitarian. Although they spent many years in the Episcopal church pursuing their common mission of social justice, after they moved to Maryland, they joined a Unitarian-Universalist church because it…
Jeremy Holt is the Volunteer of the Month for April. Jeremy came to UUCSS in 2013, looking for a church in which to raise his 1 year old daughter Nora. UUCSS was the first church he and his wife Ashley attended in their search, and Jeremy immediately fell in love with the ministers, the music,…
Audrey Engdahl is the Volunteer of the Month for March. Audrey grew up in local UU churches. Audrey and her husband Rick first came to UUCSS when Rev Liz Maclay was preaching her candidating sermon and were married by Rev. Liz the following year in 2001. They chose to join UUCSS because of Rev. Liz’s…
Ken Iobst is the Volunteer of the Month for February, for his work supporting the auction with Rob Dahlstrom and his other work supporting IT needs of UUCSS. Ken first came to UUCSS in 1978 with his sons Adam and baby twins Wayne and Paul. He remembers attending Catoctin that fall and hiking with the…
Rob Dahlstrom, already a UU, came to UUCSS in 1978 when his wife Hank Dahlstrom was hired as the DRE (Director of Religious Education). The family had been looking for a new church and when Hank’s term as DRE ended two years later, the family decided to stay. Over his nearly forty years of membership,…
Tina Borror has successfully chaired the auction four times, been the head of the music committee for six years, and been a vibrant member of the UUCSS musical community ever since she started attending services at UUCSS. Tina and Marty Atias first visited UUCSS in 2010, looking for a spiritual home and community in their…
Charles Alexander is the November Volunteer of the Month. Charles first came to UUCSS over a decade ago. He and his then five-year-old daughter, Sydney, did some exploring together to find a religious place for themselves, and found UUCSS. Charles has been coming to UUCSS ever since. He is attracted to UUCSS as a place…