Catherine Foote - Minister
CFoote@universityucc.org
Catherine was born and raised in Long Beach,
California, the youngest of five children. She became a Christian as
a teenager. After graduating from The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky with a Ph.D. in Education and
Theology, she worked for ten years teaching Christian education and
biblical studies at San Jose Christian College. She then spent
eleven years as a youth minister and later associate minister at
First Congregational Church in San Jose, California. Catherine began
her work in ministry with UCUCC on December 1, 2001.
She brings to her work here a passion for ministry, a love of
teaching, and a delight in telling Bible stories. Along with her
responsibilities in preaching and pastoral care, Catherine is also
working Christian education and Stewardship ministries.
Catherine currently lives on Whidbey Island where, in addition to
tending the flock at UCUCC, she raises another flock of Romney
sheep. She also enjoys all sorts of outdoor activities, a joy she
regularly expresses in trips to Yosemite, where she and her sister
have a tradition of hiking to the top of Half Dome to celebrate each
nephew’s graduation from high school.
In addition to her work in ministry, Catherine is the founder of
“Brake the Cycle, National Ride to Stop Child Sexual Abuse,” and has
ridden her bicycle across the country five times, raising funds for
child abuse prevention and recovery programs. She has also written
the book Survivor Prayers, Talking with God About Child Sexual
Abuse.
Catherine is the Staff Liaison for the following
groups:
Stewardship Ministry
Christian Education Ministry
Convening Leadership Staff
Personnel Board
Library Committee
Catherine's days off are Friday and Saturday.
Peter Ilgenfritz - Minister
PIlgenfritz@universityucc.org
Peter grew up in Lynnfield, Mass. His family
attended Centre Congregational Church there. He has a sister three
years younger than he. He received his BA from Colgate University in
Hamilton, New York in 1984, and his MDiv from Yale Divinity School
in New Haven, Connecticut in 1987. He met his partner Dave Shull at
Yale Divinity School. He served as Associate Pastor at First
Congregational Church in Ithaca, New York from 1987 to 1989. He and
Dave moved to Chicago in 1989.
He was the founding Executive Director of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS
care organization in Evanston, Illinois and later worked as a
development director for an AIDS organization and a non-profit
affordable housing organization.
Peter Ilgenfritz and his partner Dave Shull were called to UCUCC as
Associate Pastors in June of 1994. They were the first gay couple
called to a mainline Protestant church in the country. Dave left his
position at UCUCC in January 2006 to pursue his call to minister
with the Hispanic community.
For his first two years here, Peter worked part-time at the church,
and part-time as the Development Director of the Washington
Association of Churches. Since August, 1996, he has been employed
full time at the church. Peter has a wide range of responsibilities,
including monthly preaching, counseling, and teaching.
Since January 2005 Peter has been the pastor for youth and their
families and is the liaison to the Worship and Music Board and the
Youth Ministry Board.
Peter's days off are Friday and Saturday.

Donald M. Mackenzie, Jr. -
Minister and Head of Staff
DMackenzie@universityucc.org
Don Mackenzie was born in Chicago and grew up in
the mid-west on several college campuses. His father was a college
dean and president and his mother a musician and teacher. He holds a
B. A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, a
M. Div. and
Th. M from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph. D. from New York University.
He and his wife Judy were married the day after they graduated from
Macalester. They taught at Gerard Institute in Sidon, Lebanon before
being evacuated during the Six Day War in June of 1967.
After graduating from Princeton, he worked in the Department of
Field Education at Princeton during graduate school in New York. He
was Associate Minister at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton
from 1980 to 1983, and Senior Minister of the Church of Christ at
Dartmouth College, UCC in Hanover, New Hampshire from 1983 to 1995.
He was Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology at Bangor Seminary in
Maine and adjunct faculty at Princeton in the Doctor of Ministry
program beginning in 1980 to the present.
He came to Seattle in 1995. His interest in the Middle East stems
from a job as a lifeguard at the Nile Hilton Hotel in Cairo while in
college. The peak of his amateur musical career came when the
country band he was in at Princeton appeared in the documentary film,
"Family Name".
Don and Judy have two daughters, Mary and Alice.
In his role as Head of Staff, Don has overall responsibility for the
ordering and well being of our entire church staff. He and David
Anderson, our Business Administrator work very closely together on
staff issues. He is the chief liaison to the work of the Church
Council. He also represents the clergy staff on the
Theologian-in-Residence Advisory Committee, now called the Theology
Project. In addition to the regular pastoral duties of worship
leadership, baptisms, weddings, funerals, and pastoral care, Don
represents the church on the Church Council of Greater Seattle as
Chair of the Palestinian Concerns Task Force. He is also co-founder
of the Seattle Network for Peace and Justice in the Middle East.
Don is the Staff Liaison for the following
groups:
Church Council
Justice and Outreach Ministries
Parish Life Board
University District Interfaith Alliance
Don's days off are Friday and Saturday. |