Rebecca Benner is a third-generation Unitarian Universalist and an ordained UU minister. She got her master of divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School, was ordained in 1999, and served the Accotink UU Church in Burke, VA, from 2000 to 2007.
Rebecca left active professional ministry to be a full-time, at-home parent when her first child was born. She joined UUCF in 2009 and attends with her three sons, Alden, Elias and Jasper. Here at UUCF she leads a covenant group, has taught Religious Explorations classes for both children and adults, and occasionally plays trombone as a part of Sunday morning worship. She, her husband, Derek, and their children live in Burke.