Staff
A list of staff members at FUMC, along with their office phone numbers, email addresses and brief biographies.
Published: March 11th, 2012
Rev. Donna Pritchard
dpritchard@fumcpdx.org
Senior Minister
503/228-3195 ext. 226
Rev. Tom Foster
tfoster@fumcpdx.org
Minister of Pastoral Care
503/228-3195 ext. 233
Jonas Nordwall
jnordwall@fumcpdx.org
Artistic Director of Music and Organist
503/228-3195 ext. 218
Kelly Qualls
kqualls@fumcpdx.org
Executive Director of Music
503/228-3195 ext. 235
Megan Humphreys-Loving
mhumphreys-loving@fumcpdx.org
Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries
503/228-3195 ext. 227
Mark Ohlson
mohlson@fumcpdx.org
Coordinator of Volunteers, Hospitality, and Outreach
503/228-3195 ext. 220
Christine Bostick
cbostick@fumcpdx.org
Church Administrator
503/228-3195 ext. 222
David Jenkins
djenkins@fumcpdx.org
Administrative Assistant
503/228-3195 ext. 221
Dwight Dragoo
ddragoo@fumcpdx.org
Facilities Manager
503/228-3195 ext. 205
Shirley Blalock
sblalock@fumcpdx.org
Bookkeeper
503/228-3195 ext. 225
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Author: web manager Published: March 7th, 2012
Christine Bostick has been at First UMC for almost six years. As the Church Administrator she is responsible for the day to day operations of the church facilities and oversees approximately seven employees, including the church custodial staff, facilities manager, administrative assistant and the church bookkeeper.
The Trustees appreciate her skills at managing our “bricks and mortar.” Over fifty community groups reap the benefit of our outreach into local ministries by using our facilities. We have a community group using our building every day of the week, including our Goose Hollow Shelter for families, Youngset Preschool, the bridge club, language schools, twelve step programs, and many more.
Christine has been working for the non-profit community for over 20 years and last served the Oregon Historical Society prior to coming to work for First UMC. She is a member of the local chapter of the National Association of Church Business Administrators and has helped us to keep current with our employee practices.
Her favorite part of her job is the people of the church that she works for. If she could change anything it would be to solidify First UMC’s funding so as to ensure that our many missions have a solid foundation.
Christine hails from the other Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is thrilled to be a part of First Church. She is engaged to be married in May. If you do not know Christine, stop by the office during the week to say “Hi” and offer her your congratulations on the upcoming nuptials.
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Published: February 8th, 2012
Kelly Qualls has been our Executive Director of Music for the past eight years. She was born in Kansas, but has called the Portland area her home since 1982 which is when she joined First UMC and began singing in the Chancel Choir. Kelly taught elementary, middle school and high school general music, choral music, band, remedial reading and math for 28 years in various schools in both Washington and Oregon.
Kelly is very proud of the music program at First Church and strives to keep it one of excellence in all areas. She supervises the musicians that comprise our music staff. The musicians range in age from three-year-olds (Cherub Choir) up through octagenerians in the Chancel Choir. She schedules when each of the music groups and soloists sing or play in the worship services.
Additionally, Kelly takes care of the music budgets (music purchases for each of the choirs, payroll, having pianos tuned and organs repaired), sits on a committee to interview and audition candidates for music staff positions, administers the Nordwall Education Program, and contracts with musicians to play at special times such as Easter or weddings or memorial sevices. She coordinates with the Senior Pastor and other program and administrative staff regularly.
Kelly is married to David Qualls, a retired optometrist. They make their home in Gresham.
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Published: January 10th, 2012
Director of Children, Youth & Family Ministries Megan was born in Minneapolis, MN and raised in Waukesha, WI with two brothers. Both of her parents are ministers. Her father is the Chaplain at Carroll University and her mother is an associate pastor and teaches introduction to writing. Megan received her BA from Pacific University in English Literature and Feminist studies. She then moved to Boston and worked at Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston, in urban and children’s ministries. She also was a member of the Greater Boston Interfaith Or- ganization and participated in training volunteers in advocating for community issues. Megan then came back to Portland. She started her position at First Church starting in May 2008. In her free time Megan enjoys drinking coffee, exploring nature, singing and any kind of aerobics from step class to Zumba.
At First UMC Megan enjoys working with all generations, hearing people’s stories, hearing why they have come to this church. She likes being able to call on the wisdom of all ages, talking and collaborat- ing with the committees and seeing how the commit- tees actively support the church functions.
She has started a weekly email to the parents, children and youth: “What’s Up Wednesday” for the children and “Shout Out” for the youth. She also is pleased about the development the First Church website.
Megan states that she hopes to put more focus on facilitating the parents and committee members to become the leaders of the children and youth education and activities. This would allow her to have more time to facilitate creating connections within the children, youth and parents of the church. Megan also hopes to be free to attend sports games and other extracurricular activities that our kids participate in and to start making personal phone calls on a regular basis.
Her hopes for creating more involvement for the youth are to enable them to participate in the Sunday service such as reading the liturgy and ushering.
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Published: July 1st, 2011
Rev. Donna Pritchard
dpritchard@fumcpdx.org
Senior Minister
503/228-3195 ext. 226
Immediately prior to coming to First Church as our senior pastor, Rev. Donna Pritchard served as Assistant to the Bishop for the Southern District and as the Dean of the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference Cabinet.
She is an ordained Elder and full member of the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference, who has served in a variety of roles and settings throughout her ministry.
Prior to being on the Cabinet, Donna was the pastor of churches in Albany, Silverton, Mountain Home, Newberg, and Cave Junction/Wilderville. She has also served the church at both the general and jurisdictional level, being elected as the clergy delegate to the 2008 General Conference and serving as a member of the General Commission on General Conference. Donna is also the Chair of the Western Jurisdiction Leadership Team and a member of the Mission Cabinet for the region.
Donna graduated from Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. She has two adult daughters.
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