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Richmond Congregational Church United Church of Christ Meet Our Staff
	Rev. Alice M. C. Ling - Pastor Alice became the Pastor of Richmond Congregational Church in November, 2010. A native of Greensboro and graduate of Hazen Union School, Westminster College and Yale Divinity School, Alice has been an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ since 1980. She has served in a variety of settings, most recently as Senior Pastor of First Parish Congregational Church, UCC, in East Derry, New Hampshire. She is married to Rev. Ben Crosby, has three grown step-sons and two grandchildren. She enjoys hiking Camel's Hump, baking bread, singing with a choral ensemble and sailing on Lake Champlain with the family.
	Meredith Schuft - Administrative Assistant Meredith just joined our staff at the end of August, but she has been a member of our church for almost twenty-two years. She comes into this position with a broad set of transferable skills and is looking forward to serving our church in this new capacity. In her spare time, she enjoys trying out new recipes and entertaining, gardening, kayaking, sewing, and spending time with friends and family, especially her two grandchildren.
	*Ann Gnagey - Organist* Ann has been the organist at the Richmond Congregational Church since 2005 and has been involved in church music since childhood. Her great-aunt and father were organists in their UCC church in western PA. Although Ann changed her major from music to science, she was active in orchestras and performance through undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate work. She holds a B.S. from Indiana University of PA and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Currently, she is a professor in the Science Department at Vermont Technical College. In addition, Ann directs the Mountain Strings Project, a non-profit organization that offers affordable stringed-instrument lessons (violin and cello) to students in the Chittenden East Supervisory Union, and teaches violin and piano privately. In 1990, Ann, her husband, and their three sons moved to Jericho. At their homestead, Birch Hill Sugarworks, they produce maple syrup and honey.
	*Liz Thompson - Music Director* Liz Thompson recently moved to Jericho with her husband Bill and their 11-year old son, Willy. Liz conducted the women's medieval ensemble Anima for its ten years, and was the founder and first director of Social Band, Burlington's lively band of singers. She has led church choirs and school choirs, played hurdy-gurdy for a time with the band Twist of the Wrist, and currently sings with Aurora, a small trio specializing in medieval music. When she is not making music, she works as the Director of Conservation Science for the Vermont Land Trust and teaches field botany and ecology to graduate students at the University of Vermont.
	*Duane LaRose - Sexton* Duane is a lifelong Richmond resident and has worked at Richmond Congregational Church for 11 years. He also works full time for the Essex Junction School District and is presently a custodian at ADL Middle School. He has been married to his wife Betty for 24 and a half years. Daughter Rebecca is 21 years old and a recent graduate of the University of Maine Farmington where she majored in secondary education studying to be a high school English teacher. Duanes hobbies are maple sugaring, wood working and last but not least, camping with my family.