Sue Snider Seccombe (President of the Fellowship - Executive Committee)

I am a second-generation reader, as are most of my six brothers and sisters. Since my earliest childhood, our lively family dinner times were often filled with questions about non-breathers, Andon and Fonta, Lucifer, gravity and time and black holes, and Catholics. I have worked in marketing, advertising and product development for over thirty years, concentrating in marketing research, behavior, motivation, and memory. I am looking forward to getting to know more readers and truth seekers, and to learn how The Urantia Book Fellowship can better serve the needs of our growing community!

David Schlundt (Vice President of the Fellowship - Executive Committee)

I received a copy of The Urantia Book from my father (K. David Schlundt) for my thirteenth birthday and have been a student of the book ever since. I live in Ashland City, Tennessee (just outside Nashville) with my wife Zada Law. I am an Associate Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. I have been on the faculty at Vanderbilt University since 1985 and split my time between teaching and research. I was trained as a clinical psychologist and have devoted my career to research in health psychology. I am especially interested in the role of behaviors (eating, exercise, and stress management), in the treatment and prevention of disease, and in better understanding how contexts (emotions, thoughts, and places) influence these behaviors. My research has also focused on health disparities, community-based participatory research, program evaluation, behavioral interventions, and psychological and behavioral assessment.

Beth Challis (Secretary of the Fellowship - Executive Committee)

Beth Challis is a long-time student of The Urantia Book, having discovered the book in 1979. Since 1980, she has been an active member of Urantia Book Society of Oklahoma. She credits The Urantia Book with giving her a world view that offers personal peace on this crazy, mixed-up world we live on. She has been married to her husband, Michael, for 43 years and together they raised 3 children and now have two grandchildren. Beth spent her professional career in two areas: water chemistry and accounting. Having been retired since 2012, Beth has been able to devote her time to activities she enjoys: family and grandchildren time, reading, gardening, movies, traveling and Urantia activities.

Brent St. Denis (Treasurer of the Fellowship - Executive Committee)

I am pleased and honored to have the opportunity to return to the work of the revelation as a member of the Fellowship’s General Council after an absence for personal reasons of some twenty-five years. Hopefully I have acquired some skills and experience in the meantime that will be useful to our excellent team. The Urantia Book came into my life in spring 1975 near the end of a two-year high school teaching commitment (math and physics) at Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Its arrival was a critical answer to years of frustration and angst, which started in my late teens, over the apparent inability of anyone, including the churches, to provide answers to the most basic questions about the meaning of life and the cosmos. The first paper I read when I cracked open the book upon its arrival was on the Supreme Being; I was hooked. It was not long after that I realized that Jesus is who he said he was, the Son of God and the Son of Man. I haven’t looked back since. I am at your service. I live in Northern Ontario, Canada, with my wife Martine.

Lara Amyx (Fellowship Team Chair - Executive Committee)

Lara Amyx has been involved in the Urantia community for over twenty-five years. Originally finding the book at a friend’s father’s house when she was twenty-one, Lara has been Conference Chair for the Florida Students of The Urantia Book (FSUB) annual gatherings, for the last six years of their active administration. She was also Secretary for FSUB. She has been Chair of the Fellowship’s Membership Committee and Chair of the Finance Committee. Lara is married to Daniel Amyx, another active Urantia Book reader who is Chair of the Membership Committee. The two of them own and operate two optical shops on the Treasure Coast of Florida. Not only are they growing their businesses but they are using it in personal ministry.

Jena Lassiter (Media and Communications Team Chair - Executive Committee)

I started reading The Urantia Book in 1981 after several years of seeking for an inspirational spiritual source. The Urantia Book’s ideas were incredibly inspiring to me, especially the vastness of the description of God which replaced the childish model I had developed from my Presbyterian upbringing. What a life-shaping book it has been for me. I became interested in working with The Urantia Book Fellowship in 2018 when discussing the Fellowship with Cristina Seaborn and my husband, Albert. When I heard about an opening on the General Council, a strong feeling came over me that everything I had ever done up to that point in my life may have been preparation for me to participate in the Fellowship. I’m so enthusiastic about serving with this organization to help the world learn more about Urantia concepts, ideas that can help so many experience more joy in their lives.

My BS degree is in Computer Science. I worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) for decades and had my own web design business for ten years. I have experience with website design and development, product definition based on user needs, user interface design, storyboarding, integrating ideas from multiple sources, creative problem solving, defect tracking, project management, leading continuous improvement methods, search engine optimization, software development, and creating technical documentation. I also have a background in team facilitation and managing conflict constructively. At HP I led an Inclusivity Task Force for some years to help a predominantly white male culture learn to value and integrate cultural, gender, and ethnic diversity. Besides spending time working with the Fellowship, I enjoy gardening and enjoying time with my amazing husband.

Tom Allen (Judicial Committee Chair - Executive Committee - Ex Officio)

Cristina Seaborn (Publications Committee Chair)

Cristina is a world-class fiddler, violinist, composer, and teaching artist living in Minnesota. Through many Urantia conferences, she has found her place as a performer and music director for the spiritual upliftment of audiences. She currently serves as the Publications Committee Chair, Gratitude Committee Chair, member of the Social Media Committee, and serves as an adjunct member of the Interfaith Committee.

Daniel Amyx (Membership Committee Chair)

Daniel was raised Catholic. As he matured he asked questions that the church could not answer, and inevitably he left the church in search of “the Real” God. After years of studying the world's religions, he found The Urantia Book in a bookstore in 1978, and has since been involved in the Urantia community. Dan was a Founding Member, Vice President, and two-time President of the Florida Students of The Urantia Book (FSUB), an independent group of readers who held annual conferences in the State of Florida. He also helped develop, and was the first President of The Agondonter Boot Camp Society (ABCs) of Florida. Daniel has done presentations on Business Ethics based on Urantia Book teachings at different groups in the continental US, a presentation on the shift from the informational age to the new paradigm of spiritual community, and a number of collaborative efforts at conferences and retreats. He and his wife Lara, own two optical shops in Florida, and have mixed “spiritual ministry” and a retail practice in a uniquely successful manner. 

André Radatus (International Fellowship Committee Chair)

Born and raised Roman Catholic with two sisters and two brothers by his Polish and Latvian war-refugee parents in southern Ontario, Canada, André emigrated to Denver in 1980 to teach learning-difference youngsters in a school founded and fostered by three Urantia Book students. He taught there for fifteen years and has been in education in one way or another ever since. During 2012-2013 he spent a year-and-a-half immersed in the French language and Québec culture studying Le Livre d'Urantia with francophone readers in the Laurentians. He has since returned to the Front Range of Colorado, where he now resides. André has three adult children: son, Michael, and daughters Vanessa and Yvana; two in Denver, one in Seattle—all happily married or partnered. He has come to an awareness that dogs are not the same as grandchildren but has yet to experience just how.

The Urantia Book’s truths have spoken compellingly to André since March of 1976. He has attended study groups regularly and continuously since 1978 wherever study groups have been available. André is a trustee, Curriculum Co-chair, and instructor for Urantia University Institute. He is a weekly co-host of The Cosmic Citizen webcast on BlogTalkRadio sponsored by The Urantia Book Fellowship. While The Urantia Book may be “too much to digest” for many, our world is starving for wont of its elevating and livable truth. We must get these truths into the hearts and minds of our fellows “as fast as we can but as slow as we must.”

Geoff Taylor (General Councilor)

Geoff Taylor describes himself in this way: “I am a 72-year-old iterative, innovative, experimentalist techie with a background in Aeronautical Engineering. I had several pilots’ licenses, built one jet and crashed one ultra-light. My career as engineer on turbine engines started in Winnipeg Canada, went to Dallas Tx. then to LA. I grew up Anglican but had dismissed God because I could not see why he needed me. At age 40 after being introduced to The Urantia Book by PhD physicist Irwin Ginsburg I had an “awakening” which rekindled my early Christian roots and took me back “home” to Winnipeg but not before I had traveled the world, been inside three Space Shuttles and won a couple of Design awards (the ego was getting too big to manage). Back in “home” I started Vista Medical with my brother, invented stretchable pressure sensors for the prevention of bed sores and a few other doo dads. Having sold the business, retired and lost my wife of 43 years to cancer, I am now working on the cure. Crashing that ultra-light in 2003, focused me on the things that matter most, relationship with people, cooperation and harmony. Check out my personal web page www.ubgeoff.com for pictures and my “Theory of Everything," incremental improvement in all things.”

Michael Buselli (General Councilor)

Michael has been reading the Urantia Book since his teens when his parents presented him with one. He professionally works with computers by day and spreads the good word of God night and day. 

Riula Deoto (General Councilor)

My name is Riula Deoto. I am married to Willy Deoto for 25 years and am mother of two teenagers. I have been a dental hygienist for 19 yrs. Solonia our daughter is 16 yrs old and Gabriel our son is 14 yrs old. I like to read, go to the beach and hang out with our Urantia family. A reader since 2009; presently living in Georgia, USA; employed as an arborist.