Jennifer and James Bourget moved to Ohio 13 years ago from beautiful Maine due to a work transfer. They found a wonderful home in Delaware, Ohio and have enjoyed raising their four children - Jacob, Rachael, Andrew and Marta in the Delaware community which has a lovely downtown, library and school system. James is employed at Citi and currently works at home due to Covid and Jennifer is an Early Childhood teacher who currently subs for Delaware City Schools. The Bourgets are avid  hikers, readers, comic and card collectors and gardeners. They enjoy the outdoors, music especially watching their children in band and chorus, traveling to historic sites, taking care of their rescue dogs Harris and Scruffy and cats Stella and Bubba and having good political discussions with other thoughtful and reasonable humans. They look forward to being able to worship in-person at NUUC in the future.

Leah McCoy. Originally from the greater Cleveland area, Leah has lived in central Ohio since 2012 and currently works as a cataloger for the Marysville Public Library. Raised an atheist, she eventually found a spiritual home within Unitarian Universalism. She has attended NUUC for several years, first as an occasional visitor, and regularly for the past year and a half. Her hobbies include reading, cooking, knitting, hiking, and doting on her tabby cat, Watson. She also enjoys songwriting, dance, and acting, and is active in her local community theatre group, the Silver Scene Players. She is delighted to become an official member at NUUC!

Karen McGuire: Lifelong seeker, listener and Unitarian Universalist.

Lover of family, Mother Earth, and kindness.

Formerly an educator working mostly with the differently abled.

Currently an Anam Cara (a soul friend) doing Interspiritual Companioning.

Can be found birding, traveling or taking pictures (sometimes all three) on a really good day.

Grateful for my life partner Mark Gaskill, our four kids, three kids-in-law, five granddaughters and two granddogs.

Carla Weiland grew up Lutheran, then attended UU in Clintonville, and then found a home for years in a tiny country Presbyterian church. She is currently attending a “Soul of Aging” class with Montana Unitarians that employs Parker Palmer’s Circles of Trust to help us go deeper into spiritual matters. Carla finds NUUC services so rich with substance and possibilities for spiritual exploration that I always say to myself, “I wish I could listen to that again this week.” Carla considers the church the center of my spiritual and intellectual growing now. I share the values and principles of the church.

Karen Weiland was raised as a Lutheran but has not been active for some time. The inclusive tenets in the Universalist church,the warmth of the culture here, and Rev. Ritchie’s strong messages are welcoming.  She is a nurse practitioner by trade, lives inWesterville, and enjoys books, OSU football, biking, and movies.

Jacquie Zarley is a recent graduate of The Methodist Theological School in Ohio where she received her M. Div degree with special focus on the Black Church and African Diaspora. She is slowly and chaotically following the path toward UU Fellowship and would very much like to eventually become a UU Minister. Jacquie and her partner Karlan have been married for 25 years and have a 22 year old daughter named Grace. They presently live in Wadsworth Ohio but will be relocating to the Columbus area in the Spring.