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Board of Trustees
        Meetings: 3rd Tuesday of each month in the Parish Hall. Members are welcome

MEMBER UU HISTORY GOAL FOR CHURCH

Catherine Evans President

I've been a Unitarian all my life...but I didn't know it until I visited First Unitarian Church of Baltimore in November of 2002. I became a member a year later. I would like our congregation to be good stewards of the church - enhance our strengths, strengthen our weaknesses. We need to renovate and restore our church buildings and make sure that the space is adequate to accommodate our programs. We need to develop our programs and to strengthen our infrastructure and means of internal communication. We need to increase our interconnectedness with the Baltimore community, raising our profile and visibility. We need to increase our ability to assume the leadership role which the church's history demands of us. Doing these things will enable us to be more effective in proclaiming our liberal religious views.

Judy Mayer
Vice President

A UU and member of our church since 1992, Judy loves being a part of a church community that emphasizes love, freedom, and social justice. I want us to let "our little light shine" so that others don't have as hard a time or as long a wait in finding this wonderful faith community as I did.

Clare Milton Secretary

A UU and member of our church for 50 years, Clare is a UU "because as it strives toward goals I consider worthwhile (as, however, do various other church and secular organizations); it still permits individuals to hold their own beliefs, assign their own priorities, as between the rational and the transcendental approaches, for example." To integrate new members who have not had experiences in other UU churches into the activities of our church more rapidly and more effectively. I also hope that humanist thought will receive increased emphasis in our services.

Michael Nutt Treasurer

I've been a UU in one form or another for over 10 years, beginning with my time in Neshoba UU Church in Memphis, TN.  I've embraced this church because it helps me reconcile many of the different strands of my life into a whole greater than the sum of its parts.  I cherish the larger church community, and want to see us continue to grow and mature, and add our liberal religious perspectives to our community and nation.  I believe that we need to be able to have clear goals, and to pull together towards them, and that we will be amazed by what we find ourselves capable of doing once we all pull together.

Vernon Rey

2007 - 2010
 

I have been a member of First Unitarian for five years and feel very much at home here after years of disillusionment with the mainline Christian churches and their rigid theologies.  I have been an active member in this church, singing in the choir and participating in musical events such as the cabaret.  I currently serve on the Committee on Ministry, which evaluates the entire ministry of this church and acts as a liaison between the ministers and parishioners.  Last summer I began overseeing the recycling of aluminum cans.  This fall I also became a mentor for a teenager in the Coming of Age group in RE.

I would be glad to further support this congregation in its mission to bring social justice and liberal religious values to Baltimore.

 

Glen Ricci

2007 - 2010
 

A member of the First Unitarian  Church of Baltimore for five years, I am finishing a two-year term on the Committee on Ministry and am a long-time coordinator of the Men's Group.  My wife Ursula and I taught a 27-session course on sexuality called, Our Whole Lives, to two separate groups of youth at the church.  I recently produced a video with Alison Farnum called "Why I Am Unitarian Universalist." 

I wish for our church to be a constant buzz of energy, ideas, truth, compassion, and spiritual renewal. I want to create a place where visitors can instantly know what a great thing we have here, and those who come every week be both comforted and challenged by our church community. 

Laurel Mendes

2007 - 2008

 My husband Andy and I have been members of the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore since shortly after we arrived in Maryland five years ago. I have been singing with the choir since then. I have also had the opportunity to manage several of the church dinners and serve as a youth mentor. I am currently coordinating the worship committee, of which I have been a member since 2003.  I believe communication is the engine which drives a community.
I offer what gifts I have to the board as we seek to clarify and strengthen the lines of communication within our church community and seek to benefit our community with decisions informed by faith and reason. 

D. Doreion Colter
2006 - 2009

 I became a UU in 2003 after visiting this church. I found here a place that would allow me to be an authentic Christian, living according to the teachings of the historical Jesus, and not according to doctrines, dogmas, and creeds of human origin - just as Christians did in the first century A.D. Religious freedom to walk a path of spirituality that fits me, and to be acknowledged as one who is striving to be the best I know how to be was a breath of fresh air that I have no desire to stop breathing. My hopes and goal is to promote an atmosphere where others too can find in this place a spiritual home in which to question, explore, and to grow, as they are able. In keeping with our Mission, my goal is to help make Religious Education a center pieces of what we do as a church community. Education increases our ability to do church in a manner that allows us to accomplish our Mission. If we can do that in this house, it will affect our city, and thereby affect the world. If we cannot authentically achieve our mission within these walls, it will never be accomplished in Baltimore or the world. Charity begins at home, and is then spread abroad!

Larry Egbert
2005 - 2008

 I became a Unitarian in 1947, was a member of the Church from then to 1952, then again a member from 1973 to 76 and now have returned to Baltimore in retirement. Retirement, mind you, not retiring. I work with UUs for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and the UUA Washington Office for Advocacy and I am professionally active in end-of-life care. In addition, I love to talk about the Wilton Peace Prize bestowed by the UUA. I like being liberal but sometimes I think we UUs often talk too much. I would like to see the Church more active in the denomination. We should have activity with projects such as the UU United Nations Office, the UU Service Committee, and the UUA Washington Office for Advocacy. We should continue and expand our vigorous outreach to the Baltimore community.

Adrian Hilliard

2005 - 2008

 I unknowingly began my journey into Unitarian-Universalism in 1998, before actually discovering the faith, and joined my first UU church two years later. I have been active in several congregations since then, but never so active as I became upon joining First Unitarian in the fall of 2003, shortly after moving to Baltimore. I remain a UU because I believe that the ability to freely question (and the encouragement to do so) yields more honest answers, and leads to personal integrity - things I value highly. Besides, the people are great! I would love for us to become so well-known a presence in Baltimore that when people ask me about what I do on Sundays their response to my answer will be "Oh yeah, I've heard about that church! You guys are the ones that did (fill in the blank)?" I believe that the natural outcome of strengthening what we already do so well will be both spiritual and numerical growth, as well as the increased positive diversification of our membership.

Richard Masters
2006 - 2009

 I was in the RE program as a teenager. This was a profoundly formative experience that I cherish and would wish for all children and young adults. I returned to First UU of Baltimore when my son was a teenager and rediscovered this community. My goal for the church is to remain a vibrant and growing liberal religious community. I also am enthusiastic about preserving our wonderful buildings.