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MINISTRY TO BE OF SERVICE

I seek a chance to use my experience and talents with a group of people who offer me new vistas and questions.  An interim or consulting position would be a good match for me, as I love the process of learning what a community needs and envisions, and then supporting them in finding their gifts to make these dreams come true.  My work as a community organizer has convinced me of the power of building relationships, and empowering people to create the change they seek.

EDUCATION

1973 – Bachelor of Arts, College of Wooster
1997 – Master of Divinity,  Meadville Lombard Theological School
2011 – Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School

CREDENTIALS

1978 – Instructor and Counselor certificate, Childbirth Education Association
1989 – American Camping Association accreditation for summer camp directors
1995 – Renaissance Graduate and Instructor (UUA and LREDA)
1997 – UUA Fellowship for Ministry
2005 – Industrial Areas Foundation organizing training
2012 – UUMA Coaching certificate
2017 – UUA Credentialed Interim Minister

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

1977 – 1980  Nursing Mothers lactation consultant, Philadelphia
1979 – 1980  Trinity Preschool Board of Directors, Philadelphia
1982 – 1984  President, Ft. Hunt Cooperative Preschool, Mt. Vernon VA
1989 – 1994  President, Mt. Vernon Community Children’s Theatre
1995 – 1997  President, Greater Washington Association Religious Education Council
1997 – 2001  President, United Community Ministries, Alexandria BA
1998 – 2012  LREDA leader (serving on many committees and task forces nationally)
1996 – 2015  Teacher (UUA Leadership Schools, Wesley Theological School, DC, Meadville Lombard)
1999 – 2007  member of UUA Board of Trustees (and Joseph Priestley Board)
1999 – 2003  member, UUA Journey Towards Wholeness Committee
2003 – 2007  member, UUA Ministerial Fellowship Committee
2005 – 2016  Clergy Leader and Executive Committee, VOICE
                      (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement)
2012 – 2016  President, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
2017 – current  member of Goodwin House Clinical Pastoral Education, Professional Advisory Group

2019 – current  Vocational Advisor, Ministerial Formation Network

2019 – current  Teaching Mentor, Meadville Lombard Theological School

2020 – current  President, Chesapeake UU Ministers Association (CUUMA)

EMPLOYMENT

1973 – 1981  Editor, Lutheran Church of America Publishing Board
1985 – 1991  Teacher and Director, Ft. Hunt Coop Preschool
1985 – 1987  Teacher, Burgundy Farm Country Day School Summer Day Camp
1988 – 1990  Director, Burgundy Farm Country Day School Summer Day Camp
1990 – 1997  Director of Religious Education, Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church
1997 – 2001  Minister of Religious Education , Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church
2001 – 2013  Minister of Religious Education, UU Church of Arlington
2013 – 2017  Minister of Faith in Action, UU Church of Arlington
2017 – 2019  Interim Minister, Accotink UU Church

2019 – current  Interim Senior Minister, UU Congregation of Rockville

AWARDS

Religious Leadership Award, Meadville Lombard, 1997
Roberta Nelson Award for Religious Education, 1997
Diverse Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Award for Antiracist Advocacy, 2002
Larry Axel Teaching Excellence Award, Meadville Lombard
Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education, UUA, 2013
Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award for VOICE’s Outstanding Faith-Based Service, Commonwealth of Virginia, 2016
James B. Hunter Human Rights Award, Arlington County, VA, 2016
Linda Olson Peebles Peoples Award, V.O.I.C.E 2017
UUSJ Award for Outstanding Clergy 2017

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Paradise is Here, an essay included in The Whole World Kin: Darwin and the Spirit of Liberal Religion, Fredric Muir, editor, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2010.


Growing Up is the Hardest Thing We Do, an essay include in Coming of Age: A Treasury of poems, quotations and readings on growing up, Edward Searl, editor, Skinner House Books, 2006.


Anna Garlin Spencer : the three-fold path of life, Occasional paper (Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society), #9. Malden, MA : Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society, 1995.

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Turning, a CD of original music, 2001.

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