Meet Your Vestry Slate 2026: Part 1 - Chris and Brenda

For next two weeks, we are pleased to introduce the candidates for our newest Vestry Class of 2029. Featured in this issue are two of the candidates, Chris Hunt Brenda Maceo. Come back next week for the final two!

Members of the Vestry are elected to three-year terms, or until their successors are qualified and elected. Voting will take place at our annual meeting, to be held in our Historic Sanctuary (with an online option) on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 9 am.

A parish potluck breakfast will be held in Cleaver Hall after the meeting.

Your Vestry meets on the third Tuesday of every month. 

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Chris Hunt

Life is an adventure. That is my motto and my way of living. If you have seen George Clooney in “Up in the Air,” you have some sense of what my life has been like. According to the app that helps me organize my travel, since 2013 I have logged 1.92 million air miles, visited 347 cities and 16 countries or regions.

My hobbies include traveling and going to concerts and major league sports events. By the time you read this, my 31-year-old son and I will have just spent a week in Fort Myers, Florida, participating in Boston Red Sox Fantasy Camp. My 4th baseball “fantasy” camp. Not only did I get to spend a week playing baseball with former pros, I got to spend a week with my 10-month-old grandson.

As for my Episcopal bona fides, I am a regular congregant at COS, and I attend the Monday morning men’s Bible study. I was raised in the Episcopal Church and have been both an acolyte and a lector. I have served on the Vestry of two different churches (St. Edward’s in Mount Dora, FL, and St. Peter’s in Lake Mary, FL).

COS has a rich history. In fact, there are four pages devoted to our history on the COS website.

But there are only 19 words about its vision.

I would love to help COS make history by spreading the gospel through word and deed to future generations.

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Brenda Maceo

I have been a member of Church of Our Saviour for 25-plus years; I was confirmed and baptized here as an adult. I have previously served on the Vestry and also served a term on the Endowment Committee during the time when COS was administering grants. My two children, Gabe and Monica, grew up in Church of Our Saviour, starting in the nursery, Sunday school, and youth programs, and later serving as acolytes until their graduations. I spent several years co-leading the teen/senior high youth group with several amazing youth ministers.

My primary involvement, though, has been at Our Saviour Center, where my kids and I began volunteering prior to the opening of the Dorris Dann Kids Campus. I served for many years on the OSC advisory committee and was its most recent chair. I also co-chaired the more recent OSC task force with Dennis Duling and John Ballance. OSC, to me, embodies a meaningful way for all of us at Church of Our Saviour to live out our faith. I’m so thankful that we continue to change people’s lives through this ministry and am excited for what the future holds.

Outside church, I am an avid tennis player, traveler, and career professional. After many years as the head of communications and marketing at USC, I established a communications consulting business and have been very busy the last six years with clients across the U.S.