Janet Hansen has been a member of St. Michael's since 1984. She has been a Vestry member under Father Gill, Father Humphrey, and Mother Leslie and has been Senior Warden twice. She has served on the Audit and Finance Committees and been a lector.
Currently she sings in the choir, coordinates the Solar Cooker Project for the Mission and Outreach Committee, and enjoys stitching and whining with the Wholly Knit and Whine group. For the past two years she has been a Trustee of Goodwin House, the Northern Virginia retirement community affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
In mid-2011 she retired after a 40-year career in the nonprofit sector doing policy research on education finance. "Retirement" is filling up with new activities such as singing with the Encore Chorale and working with the Arlington Public Schools on their accountability and evaluation efforts. She lives just around the corner from St. Michael's and feels herself blessed to have this wonderful community almost at her front door.
Mick Sutter: Originally from Long Island, I grew up attending the Cathedral of the Incarnation where I sang in the choir, first as a treble then as a shaky tenor (at times, slipping uncontrollably into alto) then finally settling in as a bass.
After moving to DC post-college, I met my wife Kim and we began attending St. Alban's where we were married and our two children, Kate and Cole, were baptized. Just before Kate started kindergarten, we made the decision to move to Arlington and attended our first service at St. Michael's while house hunting. After hearing our first Mtr. Leslie sermon, we were hooked.
My family and I deeply value St. Michael's as a place of fellowship, reflection, renewal and personal challenge. Perhaps most important to me, it is a place of sincere warmth and acceptance in a world with too short a supply. I'm honored to be considered a candidate for the vestry and look forward to giving back to a parish that has given me so much.
Greg Hume: I have been attending St. Michael's since 2005, when my family and I moved into this part of Arlington. I find St. Michael’s a warm, inviting community despite its small size. I live here with my wife, Erin, who is a native Iowan and brings all the best traits of the people who hail from that part of the country. My son, Chris, is a 7th grader at Swanson Middle School and serves as an acolyte here at St. Michael's. He keeps us busy with his involvement in baseball, basketball, golf and music interests. I enjoy golfing when I can and the escape of a good long bike ride on the weekend.
I was born in Cape Town, South Africa and spent time in Zimbabwe and England as a child and adolescent. Those formative years offered me the chance to observe both unspeakable cruelty and remarkable beauty. My family moved to the DC area just as I began high school. I went to St. Alban's Episcopal School in NW DC and it was there that I was first introduced to the Episcopalian tradition. These experiences growing up in different parts of the world and the traditions of St. Alban's have shaped my spiritual being in the sense that I have seen the best and the worst in mankind.
For the past twenty years I have worked as an economist and international trade compliance expert at a major law firm downtown. I find the time I spend at St. Michael's centers me and rejuvenate me spiritually. I find both Mother Leslie and Father George to be wonderful spiritual leaders, and the St. Michael’s community is truly blessed to have them. I could not imagine better public faces for our community. To date my service to St. Michael’s has primarily consisted of teaching middle school Sunday school last year, a rewarding experience. I am ready to serve in a greater capacity. I am honored to be asked to serve on the St. Michael's Vestry, and hope that I can bring some of my experiences and respect for the Episcopalian tradition to better St. Michael's and its wonderful community.
