Captiva Chapel Announces New Board Chair

provided to The Santiva Chronicle

Captiva’s Chapel by the Sea board of trustees has elected a new chair for their 15-member board. Kathy Knoblauch of Burnsville, Minn., and Sanibel has served as a member of the board and as leader of the Missions Committee for the past few years. Due to the relocation of the former board chair, Ellen Sloan DuMont, the board acted to make this election at a meeting in December 2024.

Knoblauch and her husband, Terry Ische, of Sanibel have been attending services at the chapel for 11 years. She had spent time in Sanibel since 1983, when her parents purchased a retirement home here.

Knoblauch stated, “I currently chair the Chapel Missions Committee and have found my calling in this ministry. I am very honored to have been chosen to chair the board now.”

Her career as a teacher spanned 34 years; the majority of the time spent with second graders.Kathy and Terry have two sons, Nathan, 31, and Danny, 29.

Knoblauch will also serve as an ex-officio member of the Pulpit Committee, which has just begun a search for a new pastor after the planned departure of our current pastor, Doug Dortch, in April 2026.

The Captiva Chapel is an interdenominational Christian which welcomes all worshippers. The Chapel selects a new pastor every three years, beginning at its founding in 1948. Services are at 11 a.m. Sundays, and commence in November until the end of April each winter season.