Deb (Love) Fearney
FOUNDER
United in Love ™
Rev. Cindy Grimes
Senior Minister @
OakBrook Center for Spiritual Living
Rev.Janet Onnie
Unitarian Universalist
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Dr. Ted Anders
Love Light Campaign
Hannah Willard
Equality Florida
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Rev. Gene Anderson
Donna Kerr (Andervis)
FOUNDER @
Your Phoenix is rising
Manal Fakhoury
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The saying, “we teach what we most want to learn” explains Cindy Grimes’ passion for Centers for Spiritual Living. In addition to being a Licensed Spiritual Counselor since 2009 and the senior Minister at OakBrook since 2015,Cindy has been an entrepreneur, social worker, teacher, editor, magazine publisher and workshop facilitator. The common thread in her varied experiences is the desire to empower people with understanding and practical skills to overcome life challenges and make the most of their God-given talents and abilities. “This teaching and the genuine love of my spiritual community has allowed me to transform my life’s challenges into great gifts…I can’t help but share it with others,” says the wife and mother.
The aim of The LoveLight Campaign™ is to activate the realization that every human being is an empowered embodiment of love, already creating from love, capable of changing the world.
​Ted guides business-social- political thought leaders and entrepreneurs privately in EU, UK, US and Asia. He has guided NASA astronauts, US military leaders, entrepreneurial millionaires and billionaires in the US and EU, Nobel laureates around the world, and government leaders in several nations. In addition to comprehensive organizational re-design and performance management enhancement, he conducts his powerful LifeLift Solutions sessions with leaders to readily release their creative potential in ways beneficial to themselves and everyone they choose to influence. The result is joyful, profitable, peaceful success.
The Reverend Janet Onnie was called to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Marion County in 2014 after serving as their consulting minister since 2011.
Rev. Onnie was graduated cum laude with a Masters of Divinity (M.Div.) from the Florida Center for Theological Studies in 2008. Her post graduate work was at Meadville-Lombard at the University of Chicago, and Starr King at the University of California-Berkeley.
She is certified as a facilitator/trainer for OWL (Our Whole Lives) addressing human sexuality, Stephen Ministry, and the UU Ministers Association program, Who Are Our Neighbors.
“As a partner in the mission of the UUFMC, I am committed to helping expand the presence of our free faith in the tri-county area, welcoming those who are searching for a safe, inclusive, and challenging religious home,” she said.
Modest and soft spoken, Manal is known for her energy, enthusiasm, thoughtful intelligence, humility, devotion to God and family, focus and determination; all qualities that took her to the top of one of the highest vistas in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro in 2014.
Manal’s civic engagement includes serving on several boards: United Way of Marion County, YMCA Executive Board, President of Marion United Toastmasters and founder of Toasting Ocala Toastmasters, Suntrust Bank Board of Directors, Co-Director of CDI, IFBP, USCEO, ING Trustee, Rotary, HUGS Charities Inc., BNI and Chairwoman of United Voices for America, a civic engagement organization working to increase the participation of people of color, minorities and youth in the political process.
Manal is an inspirational speaker, storyteller, executive coach, certified hypnotherapist, mentor, philanthropist, investor and pharmacist. She enjoys traveling, exercising and personal development.
Donna Kerr Davis (Andervis) is focused on helping the world heal by showing people how to rise from the darkness of despair and embrace their true Light Nature. She is a Registered Nurse, a Reiki Master, an Alliance of Divine Love Interfaith Minister, A Lift Lift© facilitator and an upcoming health coach with Health Coach Institute®.
Hannah Willard is the Public Policy Director for Equality Florida, the state's largest advocacy organization dedicated securing full equality for Florida's LGBTQ community. Hannah is responsible for all of Equality Florida's work in the Florida Capitol, including the passage of a statewide nondiscrimination bill to protect LGBTQ Floridians . She also manages local policy campaigns, including anti-discrimination ordinances and safe schools policies. Hannah previously led Equality Florida’s marriage campaign during Florida’s victory and through the Supreme Court ruling.
With a double major in Economics and Women’s Studies from the University of Florida (Go Gators!), Hannah strove to combine her passion for intersectional justice with economic solutions. As an undergraduate she served as an economic consultant in Rwanda with a microfinance institution that extends small business loans to HIV-positive women. Hannah also worked with several organizations in Southeast Asia combating human trafficking through empowerment workshops and psychological aftercare.
Hannah has spent her entire professional life (and much of her personal life, too) advocating for the integrity, dignity, and equal rights of all people. Her passion for human rights has always influenced her ambitions and continues to fuel her motivation to secure full equality for all Floridians.
Rev. Gene Anderson is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served congregations and communities in New York, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Florida. He is a strong advocate for social justice and human rights issues. He is from Ocala and wishes to help Ocala become a more inclusive and loving community..
Mr. Gorham L. Black, III, is retired from a broad range of military and civilian occupations spanning fifty years.
Mr. Black was born on 25 January 1943 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. He graduated from Poitiers American High School, Poitiers, France. He then graduated from Howard University, Washington DC, as a Distinguished Military Graduate and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, United States Army, in June 1963, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. He received a Masters of Arts Degree in International Relations from Syracuse University in 1971. Mr. Black is a 1984 graduate of the National War College, Fort McNair, DC. During Mr. Black's military career, he attained the rank of Colonel. Colonel (Retired) Black served his country in a variety of responsible command and staff positions at numerous posts throughout the United States and abroad. Colonel (Retired) Black completed his military service as the Commander of the United States Army Garrison, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He retired from the United States Army on 30 June 1990.
Before moving to Ocala, Florida, Mr. Black served as the Director, Maryland, State Selective Service System for four years. Previously he served as a substitute teacher, only at Reservoir High School in the Howard County (MD) Public School System for seven years.
Previously, Mr. Black served as the Executive Assistant to the President of Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, and as the Senior Assistant to the President of Howard University, Washington, D.C. While at Howard University, Mr. Black also served as the Associate Vice President for Administration in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Before entering academia, Mr. Black was the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and the Assistant Secretary for Administrative Services, Department of Juvenile Services for the State of Maryland.
Gorham L Black III
Black History
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