Our Team

Rev. David Zerby

Transitional Minister

Rev David Zerby was called to serve David’s UCC in August of 2023. As our transitional minister David is journeying alongside us as we prepare for our next settled pastor. David has served as an interim, settled and new church pastor throughout various locations in Ohio. He is ordained within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and is a retired military chaplain.

Jamie Neutzling

Church Administrator

Jamie brings to David’s UCC her extensive experience with coordinating the daily business activities within major profit and non-profit organizations. For three years she worked with Pickerington Senior Center as their office specialist. She helped with senior activities and the running of the day-to-day business, answering phones, interacting with members and working with vendors. She also worked for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana for ten years. She served in various supporting roles to ensure the office ran smoothly while wish staff were busy fulfilling children’s wishes. She also spent six years as an administrative/engagement coordinator for NetJets as well as several years with Able Management, a nonprofit management company, where she wore many hats to support the daily activities of five nonprofit organizations.

Carol Deeg

Minister of Congregational Care

Carol has been a member of David’s UCC for over thirty years, and in that time has been on several committees such as Consistory, Board for Christian Growth, Worship Arts, the Extended Care Board, and David’s prayer group. She has also held roles as church schoolteacher and co-leader for confirmation studies. In addition to these, she now fills the role of chairperson of the Care Ministry Team and Minister of Congregational Care. This role requires an elder who offers intentional presence which connects those who are homebound, or in the hospital, with the wider church community. Carol is able to offer communion elements that have been consecrated during worship as a sacramental ministry to those who are unable to attend church. She visits homebound and hospitalized individuals in coordination with the senior pastor and maintains a confidential pastoral care report that she shares with him. Carol’s works as a cytogenetic technologist with Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. Her husband Bernie is clinical outcomes manager for OhioHealth. They live near Canal Winchester and have two grown children. Their son Konrad is a software programmer with Accenture in Columbus and their daughter Gretchen is the senior pastor of Bismarck UCC in Bismarck, ND.

Theo Jackson

Music Director

Theo (sounds like TAYO) has been making music around Columbus since . . . well, for a very long time! When making music, you will catch him playing piano, bass, drums, guitar, or trumpet, or singing—and often more than one instrument at a time! He has written 100+ original compositions for bands and theaters, and even one weird commercial you can still hear on the radio. Theo has a BA in Vocal Performance from Otterbein University and is a guest faculty member at the Ohio State University, teaching “The Singing Actor” class to develop young actors’ ability to act through song. He has directed the music for over thirty musicals, including our local Wagnalls Community Theater, CATCO and Actors Theatre, and Ohio State University. He is currently the performance arts teacher for grades 7-12 at the Arts and College Preparatory Academy.