BOARD BIOGRAPHIES

Rev. Terra Collier-Young

While in discernment on how to develop her community ministry, Terra conceived of Five Seeds Ministry offering service to Unitarian Universalists and other spiritual folx through these metaphorical seeds:  Tending Grief, Communication and Justice for All, Dance as a Spiritual Practice, Celebrations That Honor Life and Death, Artistic and Somatic Insights. These seeds are her Spirit's calling through theological, social, and artistic expressions. You can visit her website at www.fiveseedsministry.net

Rev. Jane E. Davis

Rev. Jane Davis describes her ministry as a healing ministry providing spiritual support and connection to community resources supporting those struggling with recovery from addiction and supporting those returning to our community after incarceration. She began this work because she saw such a need for spiritual support for this population in a way that honors diversity and provides support in a non-prescriptive, non-proselytizing way. She refers to this need as a need for Unitarian Universalist Faith Healing.

Rev. Davis is an ordained Unitarian Universalist Community Minister affiliated with First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque and working for Health Care Services Corporation in the Behavioral Health Justice Program.

Ben Gabel

In October 2019, Ben Gabel was selected to serve as the lay community minister Co-President for the UU Society for Community Ministries. He is active in community ministry doing community organizing involving racial, LGBTQ, and disability justice.
Ben is also active at the UUA national level. He is a past Steering Committee member of DRUUMM (2015-2019). He has served as a member and co-chair of the Journey Towards Wholeness Transformation Committee. Ben is currently serving on the UUA Nominating Committee and the Advisory Panel for the Congregational Conflict Engagement Team: Hope for Us.
Professionally, Ben currently serves as the Congregational Administrator for the Northwest UU Church in Southfield, MI. He lives with his husband, Bret, and Labrador retriever,Grover.

Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford

Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford has been involved in social justice since her days of civil rights action in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 60’s and has been involved in numerous social justice causes in Ventura County since her arrival in 1998. She served as the minister of the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Thousand Oaks for 12 years, the minister of the UU Church of the Verdugo Hills for 5 years, and is now the Affiliate Community Minister for Social Justice at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula. She is also the co-chair of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice Ventura County (CLUE VC) and is President of the UU Justice Ministry of California.

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