- 673 Main Street, Bolton, Massachusetts 01740
Leadership
REV. VIRGINIA “GINGER” BOVE
Senior Minister
We welcomed Rev. Bove as our new settled minister in 2023.
Reverend Virginia “Ginger” Bove grew up in South Carolina, and has lived in Massachusetts since coming to attend Wellesley College. She received training at Harvard Divinity School. She has an ecumenical background, having been raised Southern Baptist, spent time worshiping in an Episcopal parish, and then was ordained in 1996 in the United Church of Christ. She has served in several federated church positions and is familiar with Unitarian Universalist thought. Most recently, Ginger was a chaplain in both hospital and hospice settings. She is particularly committed to conservation efforts, preserving God’s creation for future generations. Her hobbies include hiking, reading and travel. She is married to Eric Bove and they live in Westford with their son Jeremy and their dog Bree.
REV. BEA MANNING, PH.D.
ASSOCIATE MINISTER
Associate Minister Bea Manning combines her commitment to justice with her love of learning and her joyful self-renewing search for understandings and truths. These loves inform her strong involvement in small group ministry, book group, social critiques and action discussions, and ongoing religious education activities with all age groups. Bea is committed to play, which she considers holy, whether it be croquet or golf or improvisations. She is a writer of poetry as well as academic articles. For Bea all spiritual searching has an action component that involves both service and understanding that can lead to the creation of societies that enhance justice and kindness. She takes these commitments beyond the borders of our church including activities such as being a trained facilitator for the UCC racial justice ministries. She is committed to our church both providing a place of solace for exploring and deepening our spirituality through reflection and study, and confronting the world with its good news as we attempt to walk as Jesus so often did with those at the margins of society.
DR. ALEXANDER LANE
MINISTER OF MUSIC
A native of Florida, organist/collaborative pianist Alexander Lane has made his home in Massachusetts for nearly a decade. He holds a B.A. in Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), and also holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Brandeis University. An enormously gifted musician, Alexander is skilled in many musical genres and is at home with jazz as he is with Bach.
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