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Phil Haslanger
Phil is the full-time pastor at Memorial UCC. He spent most of his adult life working in journalism for The Capital Times. He covered politics, education and religion, then served as city editor, editorial page editor and managing editor. In 2002, he was president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers. He still writes a monthly column for The Capital Times and is on the national board of the Religion News Service.
Phil began his journey into the ministry in 2003 and served his pastoral internship at Memorial in 2004. After being authorized as a lay pastor in November 2004, he served a number of area congregations, including McFarland UCC, First Congregational UCC in Madison and Lake Edge UCC in Madison. He was ordained to the ministry in October of 2007. Phil began working as a half time associate at Memorial in May of 2007 and became full-time pastor on Jan. 5, 2009.
He is married to Ellen Reuter, who works as a spiritual director and also has worked with liturgical art and polymer clay. Phil has two grown children from his first marriage, then two more grown children with Ellen.
He loves reading and music, is learning photography and remains an avid consumer of news.
Visit Pastor Phil's Place (a blog)
Pastoral reflections from our newsletter
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Twink Jan-McMahon
Twink is our acting associate pastor. She and her husband, Craig Jan-McMahon, are the parents of two daughters, the youngest of whom graduated from East High School in 2012. Their older daughter is a student at Luther College. They live on the near east side of Madison in the Atwood neighborhood.
Twink and Craig found the UCC when they were living in Ames, Iowa, then joined Lake Edge UCC in Madison in 1996 when they moved here. She was a leader in the Christian education program there. They both decided to pursue the ministry as second careers and graduated from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis in May of 2006.
Since then, Twink has served as interim associate pastor at the ELCA Lutheran Church in Morrisonville, at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Monona and most recently, at First Baptist Church in Madison. She is eligible for ordination in the UCC, but only when she receives a permanent call to a congregation. Craig, by the way, is now the senior pastor at Swiss UCC in New Glarus.
Twink has filled a number of short term roles with various UCC and other churches around the area in between her interim positions.
One of Twink’s biggest passions is for environmental sustainability. She has been particularly active in the Atwood neighborhood and founded an organization there called Sustainable Atwood.
Memorial's leadership was impressed by Twink’s ability to build community, her attentiveness to God’s presence in all people she meets, and her understanding of the need teens have for community and for people who care about them. She is willing to be just as open-ended as we are about whether we would consider her for a permanent position in the future. |
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Words from Pr. Twink about cancer
Twink's statement on ministry
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