Meet The Ministers

Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore served as a religious educator and parish minister in congregations in Maryland and Virginia before assuming settled ministry at our congregation in 2013. She is a past President of the Liberal Religious Educators Association and was a member of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change, Rev. Dr. Fenimore has served on the Boards of the Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Association and Starr King School for the Ministry. She is a member of the Long Island interfaith organizations: LI Faith and Coalition of Faith Partners.

Rev. Dr. Fenimore is an author of Unitarian Universalist Religious Education Curriculum and Renaissance Modules, meditations, and readings. Her Doctor of Ministry area of study is Narrative Theology with an emphasis on Story and Faith Identity Development for African American Unitarian Universalists. She was the preacher of the 2021 Service of the Living Tradition at the UUA General Assembly. In 2025 she received the Angus MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education.

A centered, thoughtful person, Natalie is an engaging preacher and worship leader who brings a passion to lifespan religious education and faith development. In her own words, “religious education is central to Unitarian Universalism…a process of giving an outline for living. Religious education encompasses all aspects of learning and growing.”

516.472.2918
NFENIMORE@UUCSR.ORG

Rev. David Carl Olson is Associate Minister for Congregational Life. Rev. Olson has been a Unitarian Universalist minister for over 25 years, having served congregations in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Maryland before joining UUCSR in 2022. Rev. Olson focuses on community building, coordination of pastoral care, and programs, projects, and events which nourish congregational life. He joins in worship planning and preaching.

Throughout his ministry, Rev. Olson has had a deep commitment to community organizing and led the establishment of three congregation-based community organizations and served as President of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization.

Before ministry, Rev. Olson had a career in the arts, as the producing director of an internationally touring music theater, earning his Actor’s Equity card, serving on the boards of art galleries and being a liturgical musician in Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Reform congregations.

Combining his experience in the arts and music with his extensive religious studies, Rev. Olson is a passionate liturgist and sensitive, powerful preacher who speaks from the heart.

516.472.2917
DCOLSON@UUCSR.ORG

Rev. Meagan Henry brings three decades of experience in Unitarian Universalist religious education, youth and family ministry, place-based experiential learning, and cross-cultural experiences to her role as Associate Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock.

A lifelong UU, Meagan was raised at the Meadville Unitarian Church in northwestern Pennsylvania. From ages 8 to 14, she spent formative summers at The Mountain Center, a UU camp in western North Carolina, where her father and stepmother served on staff. Those experiences instilled in her a deep love of nature and shaped her understanding of experiential faith formation.

Meagan holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. After her first graduate degree, she taught world religions as an adjunct professor at UT Knoxville while serving as Youth Ministry Coordinator at Tennessee Valley UU Church, where she and her husband James were married and where their daughter Starling grew up.
Meagan has served UU congregations in Virginia, Washington DC, and New York. Most recently, she served at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn from 2013 to 2025, first as Director of Religious Education and later as Assistant Minister.

Meagan is passionate about holistic, lifelong faith formation and believes we never stop learning, growing, and developing our spiritual selves. She feels called to help congregations deepen their spiritual lives and discover transformative practices that nourish their souls. Her vision encompasses ministry that strengthens both individual spiritual growth and collective spiritual practice—creating beloved communities where people explore contemplative practices, engage in meaningful spiritual reflection, and develop deeper connections with the sacred, however they understand it.

Meagan is particularly excited about helping congregants discover that commitment to justice and equity flows naturally from deep spiritual grounding. She believes that when we cultivate inner wisdom, compassion, and connection to something greater than ourselves, our engagement with the world becomes more sustained, joyful, and effective.

An avid nature-lover and outdoor adventurer, Meagan enjoys hiking. Being in nature is one of the primary ways she grounds herself and finds spiritual inspiration. She loves spending time with her family, including her grown daughter Starling, son-in-law, and granddaughter Lila, and she enjoys traveling. Meagan and James look forward to becoming part of the UUCSR community.

516.472.2916
MHENRY@UUCSR.ORG