Church Staff

First Congregational UCC welcomed Tanya Sadagopan to serve as pastor in September 2015.
Tanya grew up in Ohio and Florida.  She graduated from Texas Christian Univ with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and earned a master in sociology from The Ohio State Univ.  She completed her Master of Divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.  She has experience as an assistant pastor, senior minister and minister of Christian Education and Family Life.  Pastor Tanya and her husband Sriram, have 2 teenage children; son Nishanth and daughter Nandini.
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Becky Kingsbury
Secretary

Becky grew up in Whitewater, WI, attended UW-Whitewater, and worked there for 36 years.  She has lived in Janesville since 2003.  She is married to Gregg, a landscape designer, and they have 2 adult married children and a grandson and granddaughter.  Becky is a quilter, she also loves reading, word search puzzles, playing dominoes, bridge, and cribbage.  She invites you to visit our beautiful, old, historical church and enjoy the music from our fantastic pipe organ, her favorite part of our church.

Debi Cox, Director
of Christian Education

 

 

 

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Denise Caldwell
Bookkeeper

Denise grew up in Janesville but after marrying her husband, Doug, they moved away.  They returned to Janesville in 2014 and are enjoying being back in this great city and state.  Denise is an avid tennis fan and enjoys playing cards with family and friends plus taking her dog, Tillie, on walks.

 

 


Paul Finger, Organist/Pianist  Paul comes to Janesville UCC with extensive experience in church music, mostly as an organist.  He has a Bachelor of Music in organ performance from the University of Wisconsin and a masters from the University of Iowa.  He has also served as an ELCA pastor for twenty-six years, and now in his retirement is working on revamping his organ skills.  He loves church music as an opportunity to lead congregational singing and reach people’s hearts through the performance of fine music.

Director of Music

Robyn Brennan