The Reverend Dale Rosenberger, Senior Minister of Dennis Union Church, Dennis, Massachusetts, is a 1979 graduate of Yale Divinity School. Originally a native of the Midwest, born and raised in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Rosenberger has been senior pastor of multiple staff churches since his late twenties. He has served churches of the United Church of Christ in Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, and then Connecticut.  Areas of special interest in parish ministry include preaching, planning and leading worship, and the teaching ministry of the church. But Dale also emphasizes the local and global mission of the local church—including the work of Habitat for Humanity.  His first book was published by Brazos Press in 2005 and he currently has a book contract with Pilgrim Press.

His vision for local church ministry emphasizes keeping Christ at the center of all things, deepening the faith of the congregation by generous and faithful praise. He wants to pay careful attention to the time-honored tasks of parish ministry, letting our opportunities for service become a source for faithful reflection upon the work of the local church at a time when the context for ministry has been significantly altered, so that Christ’s church might rise up in new ways for a new day.   

Dale has two daughters, Greta and Lise, in college at Hamilton and Middlebury respectively. He loves his life on Cape Cod, reading and travel, cooking and music, especially the fusion of jazz with gospel.  He enjoys sports like tennis, hockey, and baseball, and yes, this pastor rollerblades.

Cindy is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and has a B.S. in Human Development/Communication Disorders. She was the proud owner of a successful Home Daycare for 18 years before spending the last 13 years in Christian Education as both a Church School Director and a Youth Fellowship Coordinator. She is accredited in the UCC as an Educator and is a graduate of the Effective Education in Youth Ministry (EEYM) program.  Cindy is also a 2005 graduate of the ACE (Associate in Christian Education) Program at Hartford Seminary.

She and her husband Dick have been married for 24 years and have two children; Heather,18 (who attends Wheelock College) and Jillian,16. They live in Centerville.

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John Brink, Associate Pastor at Dennis Union, earned his Master of Divinity degree from Boston University School of Theology in June 2008.  While at BU, he served as Seminary Resident at UCC Norwell, MA, and spent a year in field education at North Community Church in Marshfield Hills, MA.  John spent the summer of 2007 full-time in the chaplaincy program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.  In his social justice project at BU, he worked with veterans at the Boston Veterans’ Center.

Before entering theology school, John enjoyed a successful career in business development and marketing in the medical device industry, working with companies like Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.  He has an MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, MA, and a BS in Marketing from Indiana University.  John grew up in Gary, Indiana and spent many summers in Miller on the shores of Lake Michigan.  He is a proud Hoosier, and he and Betsy make annual sojourns to “The Heartland,” where John’s two sisters reside in Indianapolis, IN. 

John’s interests have long been centered in church community life. He and Betsy love time with family and friends (especially their annual extended family vacation on Damariscotta Lake in Maine), boating, the beach, and the Red Sox. John has enjoyed lifelong interests in sports, writing, and reading. John and Betsy reside in Duxbury.   

John is married to Betsy Baldwin Brink.  She is assistant Director of Communications and Marketing in the MBA Program at Harvard Business School.  John's daughter, Amy, is pursuing a culinary arts career in Berkeley, CA, where she lives.

Organist/Choir Director

Maggie Bossi is beginning her twentieth year as musical director of the Chatham Chorale. Educated  at Smith College and Brandeis University, she has spent her life as a performer and music educator, teaching over the years at the middle school, high school and college level. Before coming to Dennis Union, she was organist and choir director at St. David's Episcopal Church in South Yarmouth for 18 years. She and her (retired) school teacher husband Arnold, , have been in Dennis on Corporation Beach since 1984. In addition to church and the Chorale, she teaches music at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School.