RE Week Chaplain and Faculty Bios Connie Goodbread is the Lifespan Program Consultant for Florida and Mid-South Districts. A Credentialed Director of Religious Education with over twenty years of experience, her portfolio includes: Youth Programs, Curricula Development, Healthy Congregations Consultant, Trainer of Healthy Congregation Consultants, Bridgebuilder Consultant, Program and Leadership Development and Co-creation of The Chrysalis Way, an emerging congregation program. Connie authored The Smart Church, a UU supplement to Dr. Peter Steinke’s Healthy Congregations. Reverend Sue Sinnamon is the District Director of Faith Development in the Thomas Jefferson District. She has served as a Religious Education Professional since 1983 and as the Associate Minister for Religious Education at the Unitarian Church of Evanston. Her background includes UU Life Span Religious Education, Humanistic and Transpersonal Education and lifespan models of spiritual growth and development. She has served on the Meadville Lombard Winter Institute Committee; taught Creating Intergenerational Community and Spirituality in the Second Half of Life at Star Island's Religious Education Week; served in the CMWD Consultants Program; chaired the Board of the Jung Institute of Chicago and served on the Housing Commission for the City of Evanston, IL. In her 20 years of parish ministry, she has loved creating opportunities for intergenerational activities. In addition to extensive experience with social justice programming, she loves combining the arts with religious education. Megan Dowdell is a Unitarian Universalist completing the Graduate Theological Union's Masters of Arts in Ethics and Social Theory; she is affiliated with the Pacific School of Religion. In 2003, Megan was elected as the Unitarian Universalist Association's first youth trustee-at-large. Megan served as the co-convener (along with Rev. Bill Sinkford) of the Association's Consultation on Youth Ministry. In this capacity Megan helped engage thousands of Unitarian Universalists across the continent. Megan also serves as a member of the UUA's Commission on Appraisal, which is presently reviewing the Association's Principles and Purposes. She is a mentor for the Y-Scholars program, which helps first-generation college-bound students at Berkeley High School achieve their dreams of attending college, and provides services for the Pacific Central District as Administrator of their Coming of Age district program. The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt is a minister of The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York. A Chicago native, she is a graduate of Yale University, Drew Theological Seminary, and an MPA candidate at Baruch College of the City University of New York. She was an editor and widely anthologized writer for more than 20 years before answering the call to Ministry. Her service to the UUA have included work as a member of the Committee on Urban Concerns and Ministry; the Task Force for Strategic Options for Beacon Press; chair of the Board of Trustees of Starr King School for the Ministry; and the Panel on Theological Education. Currently, Rosemary represents the UU Metropolitan New York District on the UUA Board of Trustees. She is also a founder and active member of the Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry, and Vice-President of Disaster Chaplaincy Services of New York. The Rev. Dr. Sheryl Wurl has been the director of CPE at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville since 2001, providing pastoral care training for chaplains, parish clergy, seminarians, and lay leaders. She served as Director of Spiritual Care and CPE at Methodist Hospital in the Minneapolis area and began her CPE at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. She gained supervisory training at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic. She received a BS and an MS in secondary education from Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD; an MA in Pastoral Ministry from the University of San Francisco; and a PhD in Education from the University of Tennessee. Ordained into community ministry by First Universalist Church in Minneapolis, she served as a parish minister for five years at the Minnesota Valley UU Fellowship. An ACPE supervisor for thirteen years, she is currently in Final Fellowship for both community and parish ministry. Site Map About Us | Programs | Bringing a Group | Calendar | Volunteers | Donate | Contact Us | Site Map | Privacy Policy The Mountain Retreat & Learning Center, Inc. • 3872 Dillard Road • P.O. Box 1299 • Highlands, NC 28741 Phone: 828-526-5838 • Fax: 781-846-1295 • Email © Copyright 2004 The Mountain Retreat & Learning Center, Inc.