Answering the Call to Love and Service
Ministry has called to me several times in my life. I didn't know how to respond to the call as a young adult. My last church affiliation had been Presbyterian, but I no longer believed in the divinity of Jesus. That's a huge roadblock if you're going to answer the call as a Protestant minister.... Had I only known about
Unitarian Universalism at that time in my life!
I found Unitarian Universalism in the late 1990s. Like so many who migrate away from other faith traditions, I knew I had found my true spiritual home at last. Therefore, I was a UU when I received yet another call to ministerial love and service, this time in 2010. I had no doubt that it was time to finally answer this call. With the support of my home congregation's minister, I entered into seminary at Meadville Lombard Theological School in the Fall of 2010 and graduated three years later, in May 2013. I appeared before our denomination's ministerial credentialing panel this past Fall and was cleared for search and welcomed into preliminary fellowship. I was ordained on January 12, 2014, by my home congregation, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Texas.
I am called to parish ministry and am thrilled to be in search. I look forward to finding a congregation for whom I will be the right, best choice for them, and they will be the right, best choice for me. Together, may we grow in service and in love.
Unitarian Universalism at that time in my life!
I found Unitarian Universalism in the late 1990s. Like so many who migrate away from other faith traditions, I knew I had found my true spiritual home at last. Therefore, I was a UU when I received yet another call to ministerial love and service, this time in 2010. I had no doubt that it was time to finally answer this call. With the support of my home congregation's minister, I entered into seminary at Meadville Lombard Theological School in the Fall of 2010 and graduated three years later, in May 2013. I appeared before our denomination's ministerial credentialing panel this past Fall and was cleared for search and welcomed into preliminary fellowship. I was ordained on January 12, 2014, by my home congregation, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Texas.
I am called to parish ministry and am thrilled to be in search. I look forward to finding a congregation for whom I will be the right, best choice for them, and they will be the right, best choice for me. Together, may we grow in service and in love.
