CENTER Committee

Charge and Mission

Charge:

The charge of the CENTER Committee is to assist Unitarian Universalist ministers in their professional development by offering continuing education programs. We do this primarily by offering a one day program (CENTER Day) during UUMA Ministry Days that precede UUA General Assembly in June each year. We recruit our colleague ministers as workshop presenters for our regular chapter meetings. We also organize the writing of short one page essays on useful topics and annotated bibliographies as resources for ministry.




Kimi Riegel (Co-Chair)
Email: kriegel@uuma.org
Business phone: (248) 354-4488



Edward Piper (Co-Chair)
Email: edpiper@uufw.org
Business phone: (540) 942-5507

Ed Piper has served as minister of the UU Fellowship of Waynesboro (VA) since 1997. He is presently co-chair of the CENTER Committee of the UUMA. Prior to his career as a minister he was Dean of Academic Services at Mary Washington College and Professor of Psychology at West Virginia Wesleyan College.



Roy Reynolds (Treasurer)
Email: RoyReyn@bellsouth.net
Business phone: (770) 455-8125

Interim Minister, UU Congregation of Gwinnett, GA (2008 - present)
Interim Minister, UU Church of Augusta, GA (2006-2008).
Consulting Minister (2001-2006); Settled Minister, Northwest UU Congregation, Atlanta, GA (1992-2000); Extension Minister, Williamsburg UUs, Williamsburg, VA 1989-1992. Graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry, 1989. His previous career was city planning.

Rev. Reynolds' ministry includes workshops on congregational gifts and visioning. He is writing a book - "Practicing Wholeness" - that will serve as a guidebook for ministers and congregational leaders to cultivate community and relational power in congregational life.
Married to Jean E. Lamer in 1982. One daughter, Tonya Ricks, from a previous marriage; and two grandsons, Taylor(12) and Braden(10).
Rev. Reynolds was born and raised in eastern KY and stays in close relation with his family and Appalachian heritage. Roy's hobbies include music, reading, pocket billiards, golf, philosophy, scholarship, and walking.



Carol Huston (Exec Liaison)
Email: revcarol@earthlink.net
Business phone: (914) 946-1660

Carol Huston has been minister of Community Unitarian Church at White Plains since August, 2001, a congregation comprised of almost 400 adults and 200 children and youth. Prior to this, she had a 9-year ministry north of Detroit, Michigan. She brings to her ministry a great interest in building intergenerational community and encouraging interfaith cooperation. Currently her work outside the congregation includes chairing the Westchester Coalition on Worldwide Poverty and AIDS and serving on the White Plains School Safety Task Force. She is also on the Board of Trustees for Sheltering the Homeless is Our Responsibility (SHORE) and of the New York Chapter of RCRC. Rev. Huston has an on-going interest in ministerial formation, and is delighted that CUC has become a teaching church to serve as a training ground for ministerial interns. Carol’s husband Hollis is a chaplain for Continuum Hospice Care in New York City. There older daughter Vanessa is a child psychologist in Mississippi, and younger daughter Linnea is a singer and dancer, living in New York City.



Madeleine Sifantus (Publications)
Email: msifantus@uuma.org
Business phone: (508) 358-7091



Jory Agate (UUA Liaison)
Email: jagate@uua.org
Business phone: (617) 948-6453



Joyce Palmer (Member)
Email: jpalmer@allsouls.ws
Business phone: (202) 322-5266 Ext 108



Gregory Ward (Member)
Email: gsward@comcast.net
Business phone: (831) 624-7404

Greg Ward is a lifelong UU having grown up in the Neighborhood Church of Pasadena. He spent a great deal of time at DeBenneville Pines - the Universalist Conference Center in the Angelus National Forest of San Bernadino. After attending seminary at Pacific School of Religion, Greg did his internship at First Toronto under Mark Morrison-Reed; He completed his residency in CPE at Toronto General; served the UUMAN (UU Metro Atlanta North) congregation (Proncouned 'human') in Roswell, GA for 8 years before being called to be the minister at the UU Church of the Monterey Peninsula. Greg is married to Liz Ward who is completing her PhD in neuroscience at Emory University (through UC Santa Cruz). Together they live at the beach with their dog Blondie and their cat Blanche.



Joan Van Becelaere (Member)
Email: jvanbecelaere@ohiomeadville.org
Business phone: (740) 657-1240



Jann Halloran (Member)
Email: jannhalloran@aol.com
Business phone: (303) 840-5928