Roy Berkowitz

Caywood Black

Rev Friedline

Rev Janet Friedline

Karen Gray in_reverend_photo

Rev Karen Gray

Rev. Gray blends her roles as life coach, an interfaith minister and a jazz vocalist beautifully. She has an MBA in Organizational Behavior and had worked in Career and Organizational Development for major companies. Spirituality is very personal. Karen chose Interfaith Ministry so that she could work with anyone who wants to honor and develop their relationship with the Divine. It's not defined or limited by the teachings or requirements of any particular religion. She believes that it is the experience of Reverence that is so powerful. And it is expressed in many wonderful ways.Karen had her first professional gig as a jazz vocalist in 1997 after 20 years of singing the great popular tunes of the 30s, 40s and 50s in the shower. She now performss regularly around Washington, DC. and is releasing a new CD in September 2010.Karen earned a BA from George Washington University, Washington, DC and an MBA from Columbia University, New York, NY. She graduated from Interfaith Studies at All Faiths Seminary International, New York, NY and was ordained in August 2003. Karen is a Volunteer Caregiver for Hospice Caring, Inc., in Montgomery County, Maryland. She is available to speak at worship services, officiate at weddings or holy unions, conduct new home or business blessings, baby blessings, and naming ceremonies, provide pastoral or bereavement care, plan and conduct funeral or memorial services. If you want a special treat ask Rev Gray about a Jazz Worship service.

David Keplinger

David Keplinger's recent books include The Prayers of Others (2006), which won the 2007 Colorado Book Award, The Clearing (2005), and World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors: The Selected Poetry of Carsten Rene Nielsen (translations, 2007). He has won the T.S. Eliot Prize and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Keplinger teaches at American University.Visit Dave online here.

Charlette Manning

Charlette Manning is a successful motivational speaker and spiritual coach, lecturer, minister, and corporate trainer. Ms. Manning is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been a sort after speaker throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. For more than twenty years, Charlette Manning has embarked on a quest to find more meaning in her life by blending her business experience with the spiritual path that has unfolded before her. A newly published author, (The 4 Ingredients to Spiritual Peace, Elevate Publishing) Charlette spreads a message of success and empowerment. She teaches the principles of, Forgiveness which releases us from our past hurt. Faith that enables us to embark on a positive, productive, and abundant path. Gratitude and thanksgiving make us more aware of the present moment and Love which brings us the miracle of spiritual peace.Visit Charlette Manning's website here.

Grady Poulard

Grady PoulardNationally known motivational speaker, President and owner of GPA, Grady Poulard Associates, a human relations consulting firm since 1975, Grady Emory Poulard grew up in Crowley, Louisiana. Poulard graduated from Southern University in 1957, and received a Rockefeller Fellowship, earning his M.A. degree from Yale University in philosophy and religion thereafter. Poulard also earned his M.A. degree in urban affairs at Columbia University, and is a graduate of the Pacific Institute Graduate Trainer Program. After college, Poulard began working as an assistant to minister and civil rights activist Dr. Gardner Taylor and held the position of Director of Education at the Concord Church of Brooklyn, New York. He, then, served as International Field Representative of the U.S. Student Christian Movement in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Between 1962 and 1964, Poulard served as Dean of the Chapel at Christian Medical College in Vellore, South India. In 1965, Poulard became pastor of Peoples Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. He soon became involved in the civil rights movement as a field executive for the Council of Federated Civil Rights Organizations. This included the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, and SNCC. He is single, and the father of two sons, Kenneth and Michael, and resides in Washington, DC.

Rev Seymour

Rev LaFayette Seymour

Rev LaFayette SeymourRev Seymour, an ordained Unity Minister for over twenty years, is the senior minister of our sister DC congregation, Unity Center of Truth. Rev Seymour provides extended ministerial services to our congregation. In addition to speaking once a month, Rev Seymour holds classes, conducts our new member orientations, officiates at weddings, baptisms, re-commitmet ceremonies and funerals. He is a beloved and gentle soul who is always a pleasure to be with.Rev Seymour began his ministerial work at the Harvard School of Divinity and worked for many years for the Peace Corp in the middle and far east. After exhausting his calling within the Baptist Church, Rev Seymour was called to the New Thought teachings and subsequently became a Unity Minister. He has served in many capacities within the Unity School of Christianity and the International New Thought Alliance.Rev Seymour is married to his beloved wife, Barbara and is blessed to still have children and grand children living in the Washington area.Visit Unity Center of Truth here.

Pat Weeks

Roy Berkowitz
Caywood Black
Rev Friedline
Karen Gray
David Keplinger
Charlette Manning
Grady Poulard
Rev Seymour
Pat Weeks

Music Ministry

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Music Ministry

Community on the Hill has an active music ministry lead by our Music Director, Barbara Wilkinson assisted by our Music Coordinator, Marie Maus.

Barbara WilkinsonCarol Marie MausCarol Marie Maus is a musician with a Master Degree in Teaching. She studied voice with the late Dr. Michael Patterson, cross-cultural music and healing with The Open Ear Center founder/director Dr. Pat Moffitt Cook, and the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music with the MidAtlantic Training Institute co-founders/directors Dr. Sierra Stokes Stearns & Carol Bush, M.S.W.

Barbara Wilkinson
Barbara Wilkinson
Marie Maus Music Coordinator

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Choir

Community on the Hill Has an open choir which perofmrs several times throught the year. If you are interested in joining, contact Harlie Sponaugle.

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Our Piansts

Live music is an integral part of our Sunday service experience. We are blessed to have such accomplished musicians.

Dave KaneBorn in 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland, David Kane has been a fixture on the US music scene since 1975 both as a pianist and composer. He is equally comfortable in Jazz and Classical settings. He has performed with notable Jazz Artists such as Woody Shaw, Steve Kujala, Dave Liebman and Dizzy Gillespie. He has also performed extensively with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and the Twentieth Century Consort. He is active as a composer of both Classical Music and Film Music with hundreds of Film and TV scores to his name. Since 2006 he has been writing for Cadence Magazine and he also reviews Chess books for chessvideos.com. He currently lives in Silver Spring, MD with his wife Cynthia and their two daughters, Celeste and Ariel.Visti Dave at:Dave's WebsiteDave's MySpace PageAll About JazzRosanne ConwayHailed by critics for her musical elegance and brilliant technique, Rosanne Conway is a native of Seattle, where she performed with the Seattle Symphony at the age of 16. She holds degrees from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado and as winner of the Petri Award for Foreign Study, attended the Hochschule fur Musik und Theatre in Hannover, Germany and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. In New York, she studied with Earl Wild at Juilliard. Ms. Conway has performed at the American Liszt Society Festival at the Kennedy Center and has appeared on many local and regional concert series as recitalist, chamber music player and accompanist.Ms. Conway and Santiago Rodgriguez have recorded Rachmaninoffs four hand/two piano works for the Elan label. Currently on the faculty of the National Cathedral School, Ms. Conway also maintains a private studio.

Dave Kane
Rosanne Conway
Dave Kane
Rosanne Conway

Special Music

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