The Rev. Wanda Stahl comes to the New England Conference where she was a Synthesis Project Consultant and Academic Adviser at Boston College. She has served as Minister of Family Life at Peoples UMC, South Portland, Maine. She is an ordained Deacon in full connection. Administrative Assistant Gale O'Neil Gale joined the Council on Ministries office as Administrative Assistant to the Council Director in September, 1997. Within a months time she also took on the duties of the Media Resource Librarian as well.
Gale is a native of the Fall River, Massachusetts area.
Gale graduated from Bryant College in Smithfield, RI, and worked for Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank in Providence, RI, and Raytheon Company in Lexington, MA, as an executive secretary for several years. Gale has always been very active in her church. While at Union United Methodist Church in Fall River, she served as President of United Methodist Women, Finance Chairperson, a member of the Board of Trustees, a member of the Staff-Parish Relations Committee, and a member of the Education Committee. She is presently a member of the First United Methodist Church in North Andover and is serving as Outreach Chairperson. One of the things Gale likes most since her relocation in 1995 is her job at the Conference Office.