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.
Edward Piper (Co-Chair)
Email: minister@uufw.org
Business phone: (540) 942-5507
Wayne Walder (Co-Chair)
Email: wwalder@uuma.org
Business phone: (416) 686-6809
Roy Reynolds (Treasurer)
Email: RoyReyn@bellsouth.net
Business phone: (706) 733-7939
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.
Joan Van Becelaere (Member)
Email: joanvanb@aol.com
Business phone: (330) 948-2600
Kimi Riegel (Member)
Email: kriegel@uuma.org
Business phone: (248) 354-4488
Joyce Palmer (Member)
Email: jpalmer@allsouls.ws
Madeleine Sifantus (Publications)
Email: msifantus@uuma.org
Business phone: (508) 358-7091
Marjorie Agate (UUA Liaison)
Email: jagate@uua.org
Business phone: (617) 948-6453