Treasurer for Pacific Southwest District Ministers 2021-2022
Board Member of SCIC the South Coast Interfaith Council (2020 – 2022)
As a Board Member of SCIC I did outreach, fundraising, and hosted on-line education programming on issues including Unitarian Universalism, and Paganism.
UU Mass Action Board of Directors (2011-present)
“UU Mass Action” is a legislative and political action voice for Unitarian Universalists across Massachusetts. While serving on the UUMA Board, I spoke publically, hosted events, and led fundraising campaigns.
Braintree Interfaith Clergy Association (2009-present)
Treasurer of the UUMA Ballou Channing District (2011-2014)
UUMA Ballou-Channing District Nominating Committee (2012-2017)
Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community UUJEC (2000-2004)
For four years, I sat on the board of the UUJEC, and for two years served as its Board Chair. In my role on the Board and as its Co-chair I was a leader in designing justice programs designed to engage UU’s in the fight to build a more equitable tax base, and all the fights that work to build a as our groups title suggests, A Just Economic Community.
Student Minister and Lay Leader for First Parish Lincoln MA (1997-98)
In the last few active years of my time at BU, I was a Part Time Field Ed Intern at the First Parish in Lincoln. In that role, I preached, sat on the Social Action Committee, and taught a unit of 7th grade RE. In the year, and years following my time as an Intern, I taught the Adult Education Course “Owning Your Religious Past/The Haunting Church,” facilitated the 7th and 8th grade Sunday morning program “The Breakfast Club,” led the “Neighboring Faiths” curricula for 6th graders, and Ran the Youth Group for 2 years. It was in Lincoln that I had my most intense children’s RE experience.
First Parish Church of Lexington, MA (Lay Leader 1996-97)
At the First Parish Church, between the spring of 1996 and the spring of 1997, I regularly participated in the life of the church as an informal lay-leader. In 1996, I was the Co-Instructor of “Our Common Heritage” workshop and served on the Search Committee for the Religious Education Director. In 1997, I was a member of the Church Canvass committee, performed two summer services, and was a delegate to General Assembly. As a member of First Parish’s Social Concerns Committee in1997, I was a bi-weekly volunteer representing First Parish at the Boston based UU Urban Ministries “On Trac Program,” As a liaison from the church I was an active part of the after-school program and member of the Committee that raised five thousand dollars.
UU International Activity and Connections (1997, 2006, and 2009)
When I was a Divinity School Student I spent the summer of 1997 visiting Unitarians in the Khasi-Hills of India, Poland, and the Czech Republic. During that trip, in India I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Silver Anniversary of one of the Khasi Hills Unitarian churches.
In the summer of 2006 I served as the Ministerial Chaplain on a Project Harvest Hope Pilgrimage to visit Unitarians in Hungary and the Transylvania region in present day Romania.
As mentioned elsewhere, from January through June of 2009, I served as the first visiting minister of the family sized “Spirit of Life” fellowship in Sydney Australia.
The following is a roughly half hour interview on Australia’s National Public Radio show, The Spirit of Things, with host Rachael Kohn. The interview was conducted in 2009 during my six months with Spirit of Life Fellowship in Sydney, Australia.