PAT LIGHT has previously served a term on the Board and has served on the Congregational Care Team for many years.  Currently she is tending to our indoor plants.  The landscape Committee will become active soon and she looks forward to cleaning up the station she volunteered for.  "These are exciting times for UUCGT.  We will soon be voting for a new settled Minister.  At some point this year, we will indeed be facing each other in real time, hugs and all.  I very much need and want these events to happen and being on the Board of Trustees will give me a front row seat of opportunities to be an active participant in the 'new Beginnings'."

KAT NORMAN-ANDERSON joined UUCGT in 2016 after relocating to TC from California with her family.  In 23 years of active participation in three UU congregation, she has developed worship services, covenant workshops, RE programs and membership, congregational life and health programs.   She has been an OWL educator, lead CUUPS and a Green Sanctuary committee and a Program Council, been a choir director and Vice President of the Board, served on camp staff and District leadership positions-and much more.  She is now a part of the Minister's Transition Team at UUCGT. Kat has a Ph.D. in American History.  She is married to Keith and has a young adult son and a young daughter.

CHRISTINE WALTER has been a member of UUCGT for seven years, getting involved immediately in activities, especially Membership.  She has been on the Ministerial Search Team this past year.  She also serves on The Community Needs Team and Hospitality.  She grew up in Pennsylvania and has a background in Catholicism, Evangelical and Reformed Churches and Quakerism before moving to TC and joining UUCGT.  She has worked as an office administrator, research assistant and coordinator in an Education Agency.  She is married to Rick and has an adult daughter.

BARB CULTON has been a member of UUCGT for four years.  She has been a member of the Shantidiva Fan Club, New Moon Group, small groups and Sunday Services greeter and Coffee Committee host.  She is a retired Clinical Social Worker, focusing on Death and Dying, Family Systems Therapy, and Trauma Treatment, and has been a yoga meditation teacher.  She has volunteered in several community organizations including her synagogue and in homeless shelters.  She is married to Dusty, has three grown daughters, and one granddaughter.

SUSAN LIO has been a member of UUCGT since 2018 and has already been of the Healthy Congregation Team and Minister's Transition Team and is a small group leader.  She came to us from active participation in UU congregations in Washington State and Oregon, where she volunteered on fellowship, caring and educational committees.  She was born in Mexico, worked in business management and family counseling in the immigrant community.  She has two daughters and one granddaughter.

MIKE MCDONALD has been a member of UUCGT since 2014.  He has served on the UUCGT Board for four years, including two years as President.  Mike is currently serving on the Finance Committee and Chairing the Staff Resources Committee.  He has been active in the community, where he is currently Board Chairperson for Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse.  He is retired from the computer services industry, where he held management and executive positions for most of his career.  In his free time, he enjoys golf, attending films and theatre, reading and activities with family and friends.  He is married to Sandra and has three grown children and four grandchildren.

KARL KEINATH has been active in three UU congregation over the past fifty years, including seven years here at UUCGT.  He enjoys serving on the Finance, Landscape, stewardship, Facilities and Endowment Committees and looks forward to trying the Congregational Care and Sunday Services Committees in the future.  Karl is retired but continues to work as a handyman carpenter.  Previous occupations include cash crop and hog farming and teaching middle school science and alternative education.  Karl is married to Lauren and has two grown children and eight grandchildren.

ELLIE SMITH has been a member of UUCGT for twentyfour years.  She volunteers for Memorial Services and Tuesday Lunches at Fifth and Oak.  She is currently serving on the Art, Landscape and Endowment Committees.  Her professional background is in Education, Middle School thru University in areas of Science and Nutrition.