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Board of Directors

Steve Alspach

Steve Alspach is the pastor of the Congregational Church of Sandy Point. During his lifelong ministry as an Intentional Interim and as a Settled Minister, he has been involved in a number of community initiatives, including weekly community meals, unemployed support, network groups, The Interfaith Hospitality Network, Habitat for Humanity, and intergenerational service trips to New Orleans, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and Appalachia. Steve has also served as the Executive Director of the Worcester County (MA) Ecumenical Council, whose membership included churches from all the spiritual streams of Christianity. He is the Co-Convenor of the Greater Bay Area Ministerium, GBAM, with Chaplain Jean Ashland. He lives in Searsport with his wife Betsy, two cats, and a Sheltie dog. They have two grown sons. Steve loves to get people together to bike and sing.

Julie Daley

Secretary

Julia Daley (“Julie”) of Belfast currently serves as board secretary. Julie grew up in Massachusetts and studied both music and psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (B.A. 1979). She went on to serve both as a church musician and as a caseworker and program supervisor in churches and agencies in Massachusetts. After graduate study in Nonprofit Management at Worcester State University (M.S. 1989), Julie served for many years in human services administration, including in programs for people with disabilities, for the elderly, and eventually for children with multiple disabilities in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Julie then encountered disability herself with an acute medical crisis, and in that experience, became immersed in a call to full-time ministry (M.Div. Boston University School of Theology, 2004). She served in pastoral ministry for twelve years before returning to community service as an Ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church. Julie fostered a number of children and youth, adopted two school-aged girls, and in retirement relocated to Belfast, Maine in the footsteps of her late father. Julie resides in Belfast with her younger daughter on their small horse farm. She attends St. Francis of Assisi church and continues in retirement to join with United Methodist friends in worship and Bible Study as well. Julie is passionate about ecumenism, empowering others, horses, and most especially about her conviction that divine love is personal, transforming, and unfailing.

Bob Johansen

President

Robert (Bob) Johansen, Board Chair, is a Belfast resident with a long history of experience in human services and health care. He worked for 20 years at Boston’s Pine Street Inn, New England’s largest provider of homeless programs, serving as Head Nurse, Clinic Administrator, Administrator of Employee Health, Assistant Director of Operations, and Director of Transitional Programs. He worked for McLean Hospital in two dual-diagnosis (substance abuse and mental illness) treatment facilities, and Community Healthlink (Worcester, MA) in their community mental health program. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a retired parish minister. He served on the Waldo County Homeless Coalition, is the representative of the Greater Bay Area Ministerium to the Homeless Response Service Hub (MidCoast), and is a regular volunteer at the Belfast Soup Kitchen.

Joel Kruger

Joel Krueger joined the Family Promise of Midcoast Maine Board of Directors in February of 2024. He is a retired pastor, ordained in the United Church of Christ. He co-pastored The First Church in Belfast, UCC from 2004-2023, with his wife, Rev. Dr. Kate Winters, as well as the United Church of Christ in Osseo, Wisconsin before that. Joel is committed to community building and social justice. He served on the Sunrise Association of the Maine Conference UCC Committee on Ministry (2018-2023, as Chair 2019-2022) and presently serves on the association’s Coordinating Council. He participated in the Greater Bay Area Ministerium (GBAM) with other area clergy and church representatives and served as the group’s convener for a number of years. During that time, he helped organize the GBAM-sponsored Belfast Peace Festivals (2014, 2015); served on the GBAM Food Cupboard Board; and assisted with the annual Belfast Area High School Baccalaureate programs. He participated in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events held at The First Church in Belfast, and served on the MLK Day Planning Committee; organized the We Still Have a Dream Rally and Vigil commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech (2013); organized the Belfast Choral Festivals (2017, 2018, 2019); served on the Waldo County Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors; and has enjoyed engaging in many Belfast area events.
Joel lives in Belfast with his wife Kate. They are members of the United Christian Church, UCC in Lincolnville Center. Joel is a potter and sells his wares at the Waterfall Arts Farmers/Art Market during the summer. He likes gardening, bird watching, walking, hiking and biking, and just being outdoors.

Kathy Muzzy

Vice-chair

Kathy Muzzy has lived in Belfast for almost three decades. She is a retired Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked on crisis teams, in community mental health centers, in integrated health within family medical centers where she worked with adults and adolescents, and had her own private practice. She has provided in-home mental health services for the elderly.

Earlier in her career, she was a certified teacher of the deaf, so as a social worker she also worked with adults who were deaf or had hearing loss. Another one of her specialties in her private practice was providing counseling for adults with developmental disabilities. She currently is an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Belfast where she serves on the Social Justice Committee and the Caring Circle, and she facilitates a discussion group on spiritually-related topics.

Suetta Tenney, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Treasurer

Suetta was impacted by growing up in a single-parent home, with two relatives with significant disabilities, living in an inner city. She carried these memories into community-based primary care. If patients did not feel listened to, they would not share the important, very private information that was critical to excellent holistic primary care. She trained in women’s health, addictions, mind-body medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative care.

Suetta has always been an active volunteer in her community, with the YWCA, scouts, and faith communities. In the 1990s, she spearheaded a faith-based group that created her town’s first middle school after-school program, then transitioned this program to the YMCA.

After her children were grown, Suetta followed a lifelong dream to live in a rural area and relocated to Stockton Springs, Maine – working in geriatrics before retiring. In addition to Family Promise of Midcoast Maine, she is on the board of But Still I Am One, volunteers with Restorative Justice Project in Belfast, and is on the Board of the Village at Stockton Harbor Condominiums.