After 31 years on the job, Kathy Stevenson, director of family ministry at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, is hanging up her hat. “It has been a dream career for me,” Stevenson said. “I couldn’t imagine a better fit for my interests and my skills and my passion.” But, “I am turning 65, and after 31 years, it just seems like it might be time to get some new energy,” she added. Stevenson became director in November 1987. Her last official day was Dec. 9. Stevenson has been succeeded by Beau Ohlgren, who previously served as the youth coordinator. “I am leaving the job in very good hands,” Stevenson said of Ohlgren. “He has been training in workshops and studying by my side for about a year and a half.” Stevenson first moved to Port Townsend in 1978 and took a job at the Port Townsend Cooperative Preschool, a news release stated. Her son, Kagan, was born in 1979. When he was six months old, Stevenson opened Rainbow School, where she worked until 2012. In 1987, along with her husband and son, Stevenson joined the newly chartered Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, which was meeting in the Tri-Area Community Center at the time. The following year, her son Nate Walker was born. Stevenson was asked to help start a children’s program, a priority for the fellowship, which realized its future depended on educating the next generation. In 1997, the congregation built its facility at the corner of San Juan Avenue and 24th Street. What began as a small, part-time program grew into full-time work, and Stevenson became a credentialed director of religious education and then the director of family ministry. She worked with hundreds of children throughout the years, supervising five assistants, four youth coordinators and many teen childcare providers, as well as recruiting and training dozens of volunteers and writing curricula used by QUUF and sister congregations. Stevenson also led Sunday morning lessons on values, religion, social justice, personal reflection, world religion, peace, environmental justice, communication, conflict resolution and how to cope with loss. “Her words and actions inspired not only our children, but all of us, to be curious, thoughtful and tolerant, and to make the world a better place,” Betty Oppenheimer, a member of QUUF, said in the news release.  “And, we had so much fun along the way.” Stevenson, who will remain a member of QUUF, said she is looking forward to retirement. “Future plans are to have less responsibility, find other ways to volunteer in the community and spend more time with my family,” she said.