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.

You can reach Emily by phone or Zoom on Wednesdays and Thursday afternoons and in person at church on Sundays.

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 Bell

Congregational Administrator

Tirrell Kimball

Director of Religious Education Emerita

Tirrell (she/her) was Allen Avenue’s first professional Director of Religious Education, serving from 1976 to 2001. She joyfully built a program including more than one hundred kids, enough to help require the building expansion that opened in 1991. Tirrell played a large personal part in her program, working with two youth groups, leading sexuality courses, taking Coming-of-Age graduates to Boston, and more – while also volunteering as a church member in many other areas of A2U2 life.

This petite ball of energy was thought by some to be the fastest moving person in the place. No prospective RE leader ever escaped her. On the national level, Tirrell and her husband, Rick, developed a rich series of religious education curricula distributed through their own Green Timber Publications company to UU congregations throughout the country and beyond. Together they advanced the cause of liberal religion by leading creativity workshops for RE leaders from Maine to California and England.

In 2003, Tirrell received the Angus MacLean Award, presented by the UU denomination to an outstanding religious educator chosen from a national pool. In June of 2010, her congregation named her Director of Religious Education Emerita.