Staff

Kerri Berlin joined St. Paul UCC as a member and is in pastor training.

Rev. Dr. Courtney Stange-Tregear is consulting pastor and served as the Acting Conference Minister for the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ. Her experience also includes serving as the Minister for Church Vitality in the same conference from 2016 to 2022, as well as holding pastoral positions in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

Karen is a long-term, dedicated member of St. Paul’s UCC and is also the church secretary.

Pastor Brigitta Remole joined St. Paul UCC in June 2020 as Interim Pastor. Previously: Brigitta Remole joined Plymouth in September 2011 as Senior Minister. After serving congregations in Connecticut, Brigitta’s move to the Northwest was like returning “home.” Although she grew up overseas as the daughter of an American diplomat, living in such countries as Malawi, Uganda, Mali, Martinique, Congo, and Germany, her grandparents were in the timber business in Klickitat WA and were on the forefront of implementing sustainable practices back in the 1930s.

The Rev. Tim Devine was ordained as a United Church of Christ pastor in 1987 and served UCC churches in Montpelier, Vermont, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and downtown Seattle, Washington before coming to St. Paul’s. Before ministry he was a teacher in the Friends (Quaker) Schools in the Palestinian community of Ramallah, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. In addition to the Middle East, he has interests in liberation theology, Native American studies, disability advocacy, the welcoming church movement for persons who are sexual minorities, the labyrinth as a spiritual practice, and the recovery movement. Tim lives in Seattle with his partner, David Anderson. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Bangor Theological Seminary.