OUR SPIRITUAL LEADER

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Reverend Sarah’s passion for ministry started in 1999 when she became a spiritual life coach. She found Unity in 2006 and became a licensed Unity teacher in 2016. Becoming a Unity minister was a natural evolution of her journey. She was ordained in 2020.  She has served as the spiritual leader for the Unity congregations in Frederick, Maryland, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. She holds the office of treasurer on the Board of Trustees of Unity’s Eastern Region.

Her personal practice includes meditation, Tantra, Qi Gong, working out at the gym, and ensuring balance between connecting with others and alone time. Her passion for being a purposeful creator flows in all areas of her life. She creates art, safe space, and, most importantly, her own life experience. Her mission in life and in ministry is to help others create the life they want to live.

Linda found her spiritual home at Unity by the Bay in the early 1990s. Since then, she has served our spiritual community as prayer chaplain, usher, and secretary and president of the Board of Trustees. Her dedication to the well-being and growth of UBB is founded on the joy she felt when she discovered our affirming spiritual community and the joy she witnesses when new people find their way to us. Linda is a retired medical copyeditor and an enthusiastic French horn player. She and her partner, Jo Deaton, live in Oyster Harbor. 

Unity teachings and fellowship have enriched Jim’s life for the past 12 years. Jim has been a member of Unity by the Bay since 2018 and has served as a Greeter, Usher, and Team Leader for both. He has taken 9 classes at UBB as well as serving on the Core Values Team and the Ministerial Search Team that helped bring Rev. Sarah to us. Since retiring from Baltimore County as a high school Guidance Chairman and In-service Instructor, he has enjoyed being a mentor at the Villa Maria Elementary School for boys, an AAC Literacy Council tutor, and a Pets on Wheels volunteer with his sweet Golden Retriever Madeline. He views being a member of UBB’s Board of Trustees as a blessing and an opportunity to help our spiritual community grow and thrive. 

Yvonne joined the board in 2022 and serves as our Treasurer. She works as a computer programmer for an international engineering firm. Her knowledge of technology is well used on our AV team. Yvonne moved to Annapolis from Pennsylvania in 2019 and started attending UBB services soon after.

Linda found the inner peace she sought in a spiritual home at Unity by the Bay in 2016. She’s participated in many of the classes and trainings offered at Unity. God nudged her to serve in a more intentional way, and she joined the Board in 2023. She currently serves the spiritual community as secretary of the Board of Trustees.

Linda retired in 2020 from a career in rehabilitation. She is a certified Spiritual Life Coach, REIKI Master, and enjoys meditation and intuitive training.  

Kevin feels that Unity and learning its teachings have been a life-changing blessing. He looks forward to being a part of the board at Unity by the Bay, where he feels he can contribute to its mission.

In the past, he has served UBB in many volunteer positions, including as a musician, platform assistant, prayer chaplain, sound tech, webmaster, and board member. Being fascinated with the concept of leadership, he enjoys working with others within an organizational structure and values the process of facilitation.

His leadership style is one of being a “catalyst” within the organization, that is bringing together congregants’ energies to produce a “synergetic way” forward. The board for him is that group that nurtures the spiritual wisdom and health of the entire organization.

Dr. Gwen G. MacGregor comes to the UBB Board via a long history of public service that includes a background in Social Work, the hospitality industry, and twenty years working in a non-profit dedicated to stopping abuse against children. She is an accomplished Intuitive Life Coach and Reiki Master, known to thousands around the world. Dr. Gwen is dedicated to bringing “oneness” to the congregation she now serves.

She is experienced in running a non-profit and hopes to bring long-lasting security and a greater recognition of the role UBB plays in the greater Annapolis community and in our spiritual world. It is her belief that each member of the congregation serves as shining beacons of light in their own way. Dr. Gwen is working diligently helping to keep all those lights of illumination, stay lit. 

Kelle joined UBB in May 2019 as our Director of Operations. She was born in Vermont, which she still refers to as “home”. Growing up as a military “brat” she traveled extensively, never living anywhere for more than 3½ years. Upon her family’s military retirement, she came to live in Maryland. Annapolis has been her home since 1993. Her interests include travel, meeting new people, experiencing new cultures, any outdoor activity, and spending time with family and friends. Her husband, William (Bill) Nelson Sr., and she have a blended family of five wonderful children, 9 outstanding grandchildren, and 3 rescue fur babies. 

Lisa McAdams joined Unity by the Bay in July of 2020. It was her dream to combine her passion of accounting with her spirituality practice and Unity by the Bay gives her that perfect combination.

In her spare time she loves going to the beach.