Staff members can be reached by mailing our office.

Emily Jones

Director of Religious Education                                                          

Emily has been an active Unitarian Universalist for more than a decade. Before serving Allen Ave, Emily served as Director of Religious Education at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk, Maine for four years. Prior to moving to New England, Emily was a lay leader at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas where she was active in religious education, worship arts, and choir.

Dale Churchill

Music Director

In addition to overseeing our music program, Dale plays the piano for our Sunday services and directs the choir.

Dale graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and has been the music director at the Dean Junior College Theater Department in Franklin, Massachusetts, at the Massasoit Community College in Brockton and at three UU churches in Massachusetts. He also taught music in the Marshfield, MA public schools.  A long-time teacher of piano to children and adults, Dale is currently on the faculty at the Portland Conservatory of Music and Waynflete School.  His extensive performance experience ranges from cabaret to college music theater, from classical to jazz.

Johanna (Jo) Bell

Congregational Administrator

Johanna manages the website, event calendar, eNews, building rentals, and does the routine bookkeeping, among other administrative tasks.

Johanna is originally from southeast Washington State, where she grew up attending a Methodist church. She moved to Maine in 2014 with her partner, a Mainer who had moved to Washington for the skiing.

Prior to A2U2, Johanna served as Co-Executive Director of Common Threads of Maine and Business Manager of Ketcha Outdoors. She also runs a small business, Past + Future Craft Exchange in Westbrook, which offers second-hand craft supplies and sewing classes.