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KATHLEEN ANDERSON
Director of Lifespan Faith Development
Office Hours Wednesdays,
Sundays, or by appointment
Cell # (864) 494-3205
Director of Lifespan Faith Development
Office Hours Wednesdays,
Sundays, or by appointment
Cell # (864) 494-3205
KEITH PLUMLEY
Director of Music
An active Friend of UUCS for several years, Keith Plumley has been our official Director of Music since October 2009. The Board describes him as "competent, experienced, and passionate about music at UUCS."
Keith is responsible for the overall direction, planning and implementation of the music program, working in coordination with our minister and the Worship Committee. He accompanies the worship services most Sundays, directs the adult choir with the goal of twice-monthly anthem performances, and arranges for occasional guest musicians/musical programs.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina Upstate, Keith had his first experience as an accompanist as a teenager in a church in his hometown, Landrum SC. He also accompanied and directed a traveling singing group during college, under the auspices of the SC United Methodist Conference. Keith says: "I am most excited about this position at UUCS because of
the opportunity to be part of a congregation with diverse religious backgrounds where the presentation of music from any genre is accepted and appreciated."
Keith works full-time as the director of sales in the Piano and Keyboard Division at Case Brothers of Spartanburg, where he has been employed for thirty years. He's the proud father of two sons, John (28) and Seth (26), both guitarists. In his spare moments, Keith enjoys gardening, genealogy, traveling, collecting old hymnals, and spending time with his four Shih Tzus.
Director of Music
An active Friend of UUCS for several years, Keith Plumley has been our official Director of Music since October 2009. The Board describes him as "competent, experienced, and passionate about music at UUCS."
Keith is responsible for the overall direction, planning and implementation of the music program, working in coordination with our minister and the Worship Committee. He accompanies the worship services most Sundays, directs the adult choir with the goal of twice-monthly anthem performances, and arranges for occasional guest musicians/musical programs.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina Upstate, Keith had his first experience as an accompanist as a teenager in a church in his hometown, Landrum SC. He also accompanied and directed a traveling singing group during college, under the auspices of the SC United Methodist Conference. Keith says: "I am most excited about this position at UUCS because of
the opportunity to be part of a congregation with diverse religious backgrounds where the presentation of music from any genre is accepted and appreciated."
Keith works full-time as the director of sales in the Piano and Keyboard Division at Case Brothers of Spartanburg, where he has been employed for thirty years. He's the proud father of two sons, John (28) and Seth (26), both guitarists. In his spare moments, Keith enjoys gardening, genealogy, traveling, collecting old hymnals, and spending time with his four Shih Tzus.
MONNIE CANNON
Publications Director
Monnie Cannon joined UUCS in 1989 and later spent eight years editing the newsletter and the service bulletin before changing to online publications director just this year. Outside the church, she worked for twenty-plus years as a book editor and designer, and has been interested in computers ever since she got her first Radio Shack Color Computer twenty-five years ago.
Monnie is a native of Spartanburg. She has a brother in Illinois and a mother at White Oak Estates who has just celebrated her 101st birthday. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll, she has a masters in English and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UNC. She enjoys reading, writing, playing the piano, listening to opera, family history, and computer programming. She is also the author of a number of hymns which UUCS sometimes uses in the service.
Publications Director
Monnie Cannon joined UUCS in 1989 and later spent eight years editing the newsletter and the service bulletin before changing to online publications director just this year. Outside the church, she worked for twenty-plus years as a book editor and designer, and has been interested in computers ever since she got her first Radio Shack Color Computer twenty-five years ago.
Monnie is a native of Spartanburg. She has a brother in Illinois and a mother at White Oak Estates who has just celebrated her 101st birthday. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll, she has a masters in English and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UNC. She enjoys reading, writing, playing the piano, listening to opera, family history, and computer programming. She is also the author of a number of hymns which UUCS sometimes uses in the service.
MARY BRACEY
Director of Children
and Youth Activities
Director of Children
and Youth Activities
Kathleen moved to Spartanburg with her family just in time to graduate from Spartanburg High School. She went on to Furman University, where she earned a degree in English and Education. In graduate school at the University of South Carolina she earned advanced degrees in Early Childhood Education and Reading, with a later focus on Counseling and Family Therapy. After more than 30 years in the elementary classroom, Kathleen is retired from elementary school and now teaches part time at Greenville Technical College as an instructor in classes in CPR, Basic Life Support, TACT (Crisis Intervention), and Business and Creative Writing.
Kathleen has been affiliated with UUCS since the early 90's, and is proud and excited to serve this wonderful congregation as Director of Faith Development. She is creative and open-hearted, and sees her work with us as an extension of her own beliefs in the transformative power of soul-work, the authority of personal experience, the magnified power of intentional community, and the real importance of justice work.
Kathleen is proud of her son Joel, a fine musician, who is also an historical interpreter, artificer, and tailor of 18th Century period clothing at Fort Ticonderoga. She lives in Landrum with the unofficial church dog, Brody, and a cat who keeps to herself. She also keeps three Arabian horses at the old farm near Reidville, and still rides occasionally.
Kathleen has been affiliated with UUCS since the early 90's, and is proud and excited to serve this wonderful congregation as Director of Faith Development. She is creative and open-hearted, and sees her work with us as an extension of her own beliefs in the transformative power of soul-work, the authority of personal experience, the magnified power of intentional community, and the real importance of justice work.
Kathleen is proud of her son Joel, a fine musician, who is also an historical interpreter, artificer, and tailor of 18th Century period clothing at Fort Ticonderoga. She lives in Landrum with the unofficial church dog, Brody, and a cat who keeps to herself. She also keeps three Arabian horses at the old farm near Reidville, and still rides occasionally.
THE REVEREND LINDA BUNYARD
Interim MInister
This church is the thirteenth congregation I have served in the twenty years since my ordination at the Unitarian Church of Davis, California, in 1991. My very first opportunity in the parish was in 1992 at the UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Church of Joliet, Illinois. The congregation began in the 1880s and the building was over a hundred years old. I fell in love with interim work that first year, but thought I should be settled and went on to be installed at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the next fall. Settled ministry offers the opportunity to make inroads in the community and to develop sermons and curricula and programs as the church grows. However, I am drawn to the redeeming work of transition ministry. As an interim minister I am able to (and usually given the authority to) make needed changes and teach new ways of doing church, not to mention bring a sense of love and affirmation to the congregation. Interim ministry redeems the congregation by preparing them for another longer-term relationship with a ministerial partner. It redeems the interim minister by allowing her to start over remembering to, in the words of Howard Thurman, “Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve.”
Interim MInister
This church is the thirteenth congregation I have served in the twenty years since my ordination at the Unitarian Church of Davis, California, in 1991. My very first opportunity in the parish was in 1992 at the UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Church of Joliet, Illinois. The congregation began in the 1880s and the building was over a hundred years old. I fell in love with interim work that first year, but thought I should be settled and went on to be installed at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the next fall. Settled ministry offers the opportunity to make inroads in the community and to develop sermons and curricula and programs as the church grows. However, I am drawn to the redeeming work of transition ministry. As an interim minister I am able to (and usually given the authority to) make needed changes and teach new ways of doing church, not to mention bring a sense of love and affirmation to the congregation. Interim ministry redeems the congregation by preparing them for another longer-term relationship with a ministerial partner. It redeems the interim minister by allowing her to start over remembering to, in the words of Howard Thurman, “Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve.”
I count it an act of amazing grace that I was called to the Unitarian Universalist ministry and a privilege that I get to do all the things I love and use my talents in my “day job.” I first felt the call to ministry as a teenager in the pew of my Southern Baptist church in the steelmill town of Pueblo, Colorado. I inquired about seminary back then but the Southern Baptists weren’t admitting “girls” in the 1960s. It wasn’t until I found All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs in 1983 that I found a church that would accept me “just as I am” with all my doubts, my varied theological and spiritual interests, and a strong dose of feminism. I experienced my first General Assembly in 1986 in Rochester, New York. It was that year that I applied to Starr King School for the Ministry, at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California.
In addition to the Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet, I have served these congregations: Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming; Phoenix, Glendale, Chandler, and Green Valley, Arizona; Spokane, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Savannah, Georgia. I do not enjoy packing to move each summer but I use it as an opportunity to review my work and prepare for a new relationship with another congregation. Somewhere in the process I get my hands on most of the books in my library, all of them chosen for a specific reason. (Sometimes I even take the time to read them.) And as I gently wrap every item from my kitchen and take down the pictures from my wall, I remember my family and friends and the many UUs who keep me company in my portable nest. The move is always jarring and exhausting from the physical and psychic labor. But just as a woman who has just birthed a child may forget the pain of transition, I am happy as soon as my house is once again in order and I have told the people I love where to find me.
Someone asked me to name my favorite place out of all these churches I have served and these towns in which I have lived. I could mention some great points about many of them, but I am most excited about the place where I am right now. I am happy to be in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and I look forward to all that I can learn and all that I can share with you this year.
Rev. Linda
In addition to the Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet, I have served these congregations: Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming; Phoenix, Glendale, Chandler, and Green Valley, Arizona; Spokane, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Savannah, Georgia. I do not enjoy packing to move each summer but I use it as an opportunity to review my work and prepare for a new relationship with another congregation. Somewhere in the process I get my hands on most of the books in my library, all of them chosen for a specific reason. (Sometimes I even take the time to read them.) And as I gently wrap every item from my kitchen and take down the pictures from my wall, I remember my family and friends and the many UUs who keep me company in my portable nest. The move is always jarring and exhausting from the physical and psychic labor. But just as a woman who has just birthed a child may forget the pain of transition, I am happy as soon as my house is once again in order and I have told the people I love where to find me.
Someone asked me to name my favorite place out of all these churches I have served and these towns in which I have lived. I could mention some great points about many of them, but I am most excited about the place where I am right now. I am happy to be in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and I look forward to all that I can learn and all that I can share with you this year.
Rev. Linda
210 Henry Place
P.O. Box 1942
Spartanburg, SC 29304
864-585-9230
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864-585-9230
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