[cuc-uumoc] Ministerial Transitions - Update from Mary Bennett, CUC

[Mary Bennett]

August 7, 2007

 


A message from Mary


Executive Director of the Canadian Unitarian Council


To all professional ministers in Canada

With a “cc” to CUC board and staff.

 

Information in this message, usually sent around the 5th of the month, is
selected to be of interest to our ministers, but can be forwarded to anyone
you feel would find it of interest. 

 

I hope and trust you have found time for rest, relaxation and renewal over
the summer. I am just back from two weeks on Hornby Island and a week-long
painting course at Emily Carr School of Art & Design prior to that.  

 

Here’s what I know about the many ministerial transitions across Canada.
Please send me any errors or omissions, and I will share with others. 

 

Ministerial Transitions—from coast to coast

BC Region

Marian Stewart will be consulting minister at the First Unitarian Fellowship
of Nanaimo this coming year and also part-time with the Salt Spring Island
Unitarians. Marian is also available to lead workshops through the BC
Regional Network Group on financial stewardship and membership growth.
Marian was the intern minister at First Victoria & Nanaimo last year. 

Stephen Atkinson is now resident on the North Shore and starts work formally
as the minister at North Shore Unitarian Church on August 15th.  It was
great to march in the Vancouver Pride parade with Stephen over the weekend.
Unitarian youth from the lower mainland led the way, carrying or wearing the
CUC banner and the Canadian Unitarian Youth banner. 

Trish Schwartzberg starts her settled half-time ministry with South Fraser
Unitarian Church in late September. 

Rev. Wendy McNiven continues part-time with the Kamloops congregation and
  

Wendy is available in BC and Western regions to lead worship skills
workshops through the CUC. Wendy is offering a workshop at the BC Regional
Fall Gathering. 

Rev. Jane Bramadat is taking a sabbatical from early November (immediately
after the Regional Fall Gathering her congregation is hosting) till spring.
One project she’ll be working on is researching the life of Unitarian Mavor
Moore.

Laura Friedman will be ordained into the UU ministry at the Unitarian Church
of Vancouver on Sunday, September 16. Laura led a Street Retreat through the
Faithful Fools Street Ministry as part of the CUC’s Annual Conference &
Meeting and continues with this important work in collaboration with the
Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

Rev. Steven Epperson will be taking sabbatical for part of the fall and
spring. 

 

Western Region

Rev. Wendy Jerome will be in Winnipeg from September 2007 to June 2008 as
the interim minister. Winnipeg hope to have a settled minister by September,
2008.

Saskatoon remains a lay-led congregation at this time.

 

Central Region

Rev. Felicia Urbanski continues in her second year of a two-year interim
with Waterloo. Waterloo move to their new building in the fall and hope to
have a full-time settled minister by next August, 2008.

Rev. Julie Stoneberg has moved from a consulting ministry in Thunder Bay at
Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship to a settled ministry at Peterborough
Unitarian Fellowship.

Rev. Peter Boullata, who served recently as interim minister at UCMontreal
and then Peterborough, will be serving in Weston, Massachusetts. 

Unitarian Fellowship of London are in search for an interim minister as Rev.
Leaf Seligman has resigned.

Rev. Shawn Newton begins his full-time ministry with First Unitarian
Congregation of Toronto as of September 1. 

Karen Fraser Gitlitz served as summer minister at Toronto First after
completing an internship with Hamilton.

Rev. Allison Barrett is on sabbatical this fall. During her absence Rev.
Alicia Forsey will be sabbatical minister. Alicia served as interim minister
with North Shore in 2005-2006. 

 

Eastern Region

Rev. Janet Newman, who served as interim minister at Toronto First last
year, is now with Ottawa First for a one-year interim. Ottawa will be
planning on a second one-year interim ministry before settling in September,
2009. Ottawa First are hosting the CUC Annual Conference and Meeting and
I’ll look forward to working with Janet who I got to know while she was in
Toronto. 

Halifax are continuing as a lay-led congregation temporarily. 

Saint John have a new building and positioned for growth. Rev. Kitsy
Winthrop continues coming up once a month from Maine to serve as their ¼
time minister. 

Retired Unitarian Universalist ministers, Rev. Anne Treadwell (Middle West
Pubnico, Nova Scotia) and Rev. Ray Drennan (Bouctouche, NB) are often
invited to lead services in the Maritime congregations.

 

 

Take care of yourselves and each other,

Mary

Mary Bennett, Executive Director, HYPERLINK "mailto:mary at cuc.ca"mary at cuc.ca

CANADIAN UNITARIAN COUNCIL – CONSEIL UNITARIEN DU CANADA

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1-888-568-5723

 
Take care,
 
Mary Bennett, Executive Director  HYPERLINK "mailto:mary at cuc.ca"mary at cuc.ca

CANADIAN UNITARIAN COUNCIL 
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Toronto: 416-489-4121 Vancouver: 604-264-0088 
 
CUC Annual Conference & Meeting 2008 will be in Ottawa at Carleton
University. Details as they come available will be posted at: 
HYPERLINK "http://www.cuc.ca/conference/20087"www.cuc.ca/conference/2008
 
 

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