Our Leadership Team
In some denominations there is one leader who makes all the decisions, but as a United Methodist community we believe there is something powerful about shared leadership. We believe in communal discernment and that when we work together something emerges that no individual could create on their own. Our Leadership Team includes both lay leaders and our pastor.
We give our blessing to our Leadership Team to:
1) Discern and cast a vision
2) Create an action plan
3) Communicate vision and action plans
Adele Vensel
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
Staff Parish Relations Liaison
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
It’s reaffirming and valuing of our individual and collective belovedness.
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
I would choose teleportation so that I could connect and stay connected with many different friends all over the world.
One day, I’d like to go to…
cycling across the country.
My favorite food is…
blueberries.
I bet you never knew that I…
graduated from an all girls boarding school.
Jo Cloniger
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
Treasurer
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
The people.
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
To heal all suffering
One day, I’d like to go…
back to Bay Cliff Health Camp
My favorite food is…
anything chocolate.
I bet you never knew that I…
was a Fulbright in Poland.
Julie Crandall
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
TLC Coordinator (“Tender Loving Care”)
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
I love how we live in the questions!
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
That I held the key to all the answers of the great riddles of life.
One day, I’d like to go to…
Spain to walk the El Camino de Santiago .
My favorite food is…
A loaf of warm sourdough bread with lots of butter.
I bet you never knew that I…
teach preschool and that is where I hone my theological musings!
Allison Simpson
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
Mission, Vision, & Values Alignment
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
I love that I can question, discuss, learn, and (hopefully) grow in my faith in a community of loving and accepting people from many different backgrounds.
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
I would love to have the ability to know what dogs and cats are thinking.
One day, I’d like to go to…
an African safari.
My favorite food is…
eggs.
I bet you never knew that I…
am the daughter of an only child, am an only child, married an only child, and have only one child!
Kathi Callaway
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
Hospitality & Facility Liasion
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
I love that we are such a welcoming community who always try to make everyone feel comfortable.
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
I would love to be able to communicate with my family and friends who have died.
One day, I’d like to go to…
Sicily, specifically to my paternal grandfather's home.
My favorite food is…
anything Italian.
I bet you never knew that I…
was a house mother/counselor in a group home for teenage girls when I was 23.
Annie Anderson
she/her/hers
What is your role on the Leadership Team?
Finance Chair
What is one thing you love about Inclusion Community?
I love the acceptance and allowance for me to be authentically me without fear of judgement.
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
My superpower would be to be able to have us experience what it is like to be someone else or something else for a day, in the hopes of more love and compassion toward each other and our environment.
One day, I’d like to go…
on an African safari and hike Kilimanjaro.
My favorite food is…
(right now) Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles.
I bet you never knew that I…
backpacked with a girlfriend for 9 months around 7 countries from Australia to Thailand to Nepal when I was 25.