Rev Terry Davis

Part-time (50%) minister

Rev Terry found Unitarian Universalism and her spiritual home at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, where she was a 20-year member. In her ministry, she has served as the neo-natal intensive care unit chaplain at Emory University Midtown Hospital in Atlanta; as the pastoral care minister at Eliot Chapel, a 600-member Unitarian Universalist congregation in St. Louis, Missouri; and as the solo minister at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a 250-member faith community in suburban Atlanta. 

Terry and her spouse Gail Hyde moved to Asheville in 2019 after Gail’s retirement as CIO of Habitat for Humanity International. During the early years of the pandemic, Terry completed an intensive two-year spiritual director certification program with the Haden Institute, an international and ecumenical program grounded in Jungian psycho-spiritual teachings.

For fun and as food for her soul, Rev. Davis serves as a “Craggy Rover” (volunteer park ranger) every Wednesday, on a 5,892-foot peak high above the Blue Ridge Parkway for the National Park Servic

email Rev Terry, minister409@nulluufhnc.org

Sunday Shae (Angleton) Parker

Coordinator of Family Ministry

Sunday Shae (Angleton) Parker was born on a Monday in the small Texas border town of Del Rio. A graduate of the University of New Orleans and Loyola her professional careers include researching, writing, teaching, event organizing, and partnering with Tulane and Loyola Universities to open and direct a learning center offering free academic tutoring to 6th-12th grade public school students in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Sunday worked with the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival for more than ten years as a student program coordinator, editor, and writing contest judge; is a cofounder of the New Orleans Ernest Hemingway Contest; and a former event planner for the El Pobre de Mi Celebration at the San Fermin in Nueva Orleans festival (the New Orleans Running of the Bulls). She also served as the lead research assistant for the PBS Documentary: Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet. As if all this is not enough, Sunday has held a plethora of odd jobs, ranging from selling art in the French Quarter, wrangling musicians for the House of Blues, and waitressing in small-town Texas.

Sunday and her husband David – ghost writer, professor, novelist – have two children: Clyde Kelly (8) and Chloe Kae (5). Clyde goes to Hendersonville Elementary and loves their STEM projects; Chloe is a kindergartner in Bruce Drysdale’s dual language program. Rounding out the household is a 2-year old hound dog mix – Dorothy Parker. 

email Sunday, re@nulluufhnc.org

Virginia Erwin

Interim Choir Director

Virginia Erwin retired with her husband, Michael, to beautiful Hendersonville in 2018. She is the mother of two and the grandmother of two.   Before retiring, Virginia taught voice and music history for over thirty years. Her original voice training, at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, prepared her for opening a private voice studio. Later, with advanced degrees in Education from Syracuse University, and in conducting from the University of Virginia, she taught Music Appreciation and Classical Voice on the faculty of Piedmont Virginia Community College.  

As a member of NATS and ACDA, she also directed several church choirs in Maryland and in Virginia. Before moving to the mountains, she accepted the position of Music Director of the Blue Ridge Chorale in Culpeper Virginia, where she remained for seven years, until her move to the NC mountains. . While in Virginia, she wrote and produced several educational musical plays for Charlottesville students.  

Since retiring, Virginia enjoys most of all the opportunity for choral and solo singing. She also gardens, walks her two huge dogs, and works at playing golf, which she thinks is much harder than singing. 

Shirley Gruenhut

Choir Piano Accompanist

Shirley is an avid chamber music player and New York native who now calls Hendersonville home. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she was the first time recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Award for excellence in musical performance. She studied graduate level piano accompaniment at the Manhattan School of Music. She assisted at the Metropolitan Opera House studios and has performed regularly in New York, as well as Europe and Israel. Shirley is a member of ACMA-Association of Classical Musicians and Artists, Sing For Hope, and ACMP-Association of Chamber Music Players. She is also a professional member of AAPF, the Asheville Area Piano Forum. She was founder of several chamber music ensembles

Louis “Lou” Johnson

AV/Website Tech

Lou will be responsible for managing Sunday worship audio and visual activities

Louis is a 14-year military veteran (US Air Force and Army) and is the owner of Kahalo Designs, a graphic design and website management firm based in Hendersonville.

Wanda Hughes

Office Manager

Wanda Hughes, after serving as our Interim Office Manager for 3 months, was chosen by the Personnel Team ( from among other candidates) to be our permanent replacement.  

Wanda “discovered” UUFH about 10 years ago. She was active on the Membership Committee for many years, appeared regularly with the Sunday Welcome Team, and was a member of the Concert Series Committee from its inception.

Wanda is a retired CAT scan tech. Her interests include, reading ( a good mystery), “adopting” lonely plants, and  repurposing “sad” furniture pieces.  She shares her space with a sweet dog and a crazy cat.

Email Wanda Hughes

Regina Hutchison

Bookkeeper

Regina Hutchison is originally from Jonesville, VA. She is married to her lovely husband, Andy, and together they live in Etowah with their two fur babies, Daisy and Tansy. 

Regina helped found the Misty Mountain Covenant of UU Pagans chapter (MMCUUPS) at UUFH in 2013. She was formerly involved in the Welcome Team and headed up two pledge campaigns during COVID.

Things that bring her joy are taking care of her extensive collection of indoor plants, cooking, family time, thrift store shopping, driving her white convertible (named Blanca Evangelista), and being outdoors. She also very much likes to rock out to 70’s and 80’s music.

email Regina, bookkeeper@nulluufhnc.org