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Minnesota Valley Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship
A liberal religious congregation in the Minneapolis area If the Menu on the Left Hasn't Appeared |
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The
Reverend David Breeden
David especially enjoys writing and delivering sermons,
teaching adult education and providing pastoral care. He has a
strong respect for lay leadership and a collaborative style
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Contact the
Minister News from the Minister Links to Minister's Sermons BLOGS MVUUF Book Discussion Blog Theopoetics at Work: Deity and Its Double Spiritual Practice and Spiritual Action: Theopoetics and Microtheology |
Rev.
David Breeden is our new settled minister. He is a June 2008
graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School and comes to us
from Mukwonago, WI, where he has been serving as consulting minister
for this past year. Jan Fitzgerald, Director
of Religious Education (DRE) Jan Fitzgerald is in her
6th year as Director of Religious Education. She received her BA from Macalester College and her MA from the University of Iowa in Music Education. She taught eight years at St. Paul Academy and eight years in the Edina Public Schools. Jan is currently the President of the Prairie Star District Liberal Religious Educators Association. Top of Page |
Office Hours - DRE
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Sonja
Johnston, Minister of Music  Sonja
Johnston became Music Director at MVUUF in 1976. The congregation
voted in January 2004 to recognize Sonja as Minister of Music.
Sonja was schooled in classical
music, is an accomplished
pianist
and a composer and arranger of a variety of music. She is an
active
member of the Unitarian Universalist Musicians' Network (UUMN)
attending
and participating in the annual conferences, serving as a mentor to
small
churches, and sharing the position as UUMN liaison to Prairie Star
District
with another UUMN member. Sonja co-chaired the annual UUMN
conference in August,
2006,
in St. Paul with Ruth Palmer, Director of Music Ministries at Unity
Church-Unitarian. In October, Sonja will take over the UUMN
Mentor Program which is being merged with the UUMN Liaison Group. Top of Page |
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News from the Minister of Music What Is a Minister of Music? |
Youth Coordinator  Thomas Hood
is a seminary student
at United Theological
Seminary and he has one year left of school. He has interned as a youth
director and also as a student ministerial intern at All God’s Children
Metropolitan Community Church. He worked as a Religious Education
volunteer at Michael Servetus Unitarian Society where he attended for 4
years. He is enthusiastic about working with our youth. Top of Page |
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| Ministerial Intern Robert Bledsoe became a Unitarian Universalist in the mid-90s. He was Commissioned Lay Leader for the Menomonie Unitarian Society and began seminary in 2007. He is a full-time English professor at several community and private colleges and sometimes in the state prisons. His wife Jayne Helgevold is a United Church of Christ pastoral student. They have no children but dogs and cats and live in rural St. Croix County. Top of Page |
| Janet
Stevens, Office Manager Office Hours - Office Manager  Janet
Stevens has been Office Manager since September of 1998. "After
30
years of teaching English I was ready for a change of pace and
pressure.
I'm enjoying the work at MVUUF, and I appreciate the people who keep
things
humming." Janet and her husband George have 4 grown children and
8 grandchildren (all girls). Top of Page |
Office Hours - Office Manager |
| Custodian
(part time) Contact Mark Clary, Operations Chair, with custodian questions. See MVUUF printed directory or Sunday bulletin for custodian email address. Top of Page |
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