Campaign Leadership

Campaign Leadership

Honorary Chair: Alleen McLaren
(Naramata Centre Co-founder, with husband Rev. Bob McLaren and Associates)

Campaign Champions

Darryl and Jeryl Auten
Marion and Jack Best
Gordon Bryant
Nina Cumming
Maureen Docharty
Jim and Lillian Ellis
Laurie and Berta Fisher
Linnea Good and David Jonsson
Kathleen Hatfield
Beryl Itani
Bill Phipps and Carolyn Pogue
Don and Pat Rigby
John and Mary Robertson
George and Heather Rodgers
Tim and Donna Scorer
George and Anne Searcy
Jean Stobie
Jim and Jean Strathdee
Robert and Marion Taylor
Joyce & Bob Thomson
Brian Thorpe and Peter Smith
Jean Tollefson
Dorothy Woollard

Campaign Partners

The United Church of Canada
Please accept this message as our clear endorsement of your effort, and our affirmation for naming the United Church of Canada as a partner in the campaign. Thanks again, to you and all your Naramata community, for the vital ways you share Christ’s ministry with so many.

Jim Sinclair, General Secretary, General Council, May 2006

Alberta and Northwest Conference of the United Church of Canada
I am pleased to confirm Alberta and Northwest Conference as a partner in the Centre’s Capital Campaign …
Continuing gratitude to Naramata Centre for creative and diverse programming that empowers individuals and
faith communities to make a difference in the world.

Lynn Maki, Executive Secretary, Alberta and Northwest Conference, March 2006

British Columbia Conference of the United Church of Canada
Naramata Centre has provided generations of service and learning opportunities to the people of BC Conference. We are grateful that you are undertaking this project to ensure that the Centre will continue to be a hospitable place of healing, learning and retreat.

Doug Goodwin, Executive Secretary, British Columbia Conference, March 2006

Campaign Committee

Marion Best (Co-Chair), Barbara Gregg (Co-Chair), Doreen Keith (Co-Chair), Ken Fanning, Heather Glynes, Carolyn King, Janis Magnuson, Janet McDonald, Mary Robertson, Carol Joy Stokes.

Naramata Centre Board of Directors

Michael Barr, Camrose, AB
Rosemary Best, Health Care Manager (Retired), Abbotsford, BC
John Burton, Assistant Professor, Winfield, BC
Ken Fanning, Vice-President, Human Resources (Retired), Parksville, BC
Barbara Gregg, Senior Financial Consultant, Surrey, BC
Judy Hutchinson, Director, Information Resources, St. Albert, AB
Wade Lifton, Children and Youth Minister, Vancouver, BC
Michael Loewen, Voluntary Sector Consultant, Kelowna, BC
Jean MacLeod, Faculty Member, Burnaby, BC
Jessie Negropontes, Calgary, AB
John Shaw, Senior Manager, Vancouver, BC
Jim Simpson, (Chair) Senior Financial Executive, Calgary, AB
Ron Spice, (Vice-Chair) Palliative Care Physician, Okotoks, AB
Alan Stebbing, Hudson Hope, BC

Management Team

Cindy Davenport, Program Director
Heather Glynes,  Fundraising Director 
Lois Huey-Heck, Program Director
Natalie Maxson, Program Director
Janet McDonald, Executive Director
Mary-Ann Reid, Healing Pathway Director
Allison Rennie, Program Director
Robin Robertson, Director of Finance & Operations