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SUMMARY
- Welcoming, inviting, and supportive pastoral presence
- Inspirational and creative trainer and communicator who motivates staff, volunteers, and clients
- Organized and reliable manager who finds adaptive solutions and achieves objectives
SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS
- Pastoral Counseling
- Insightful, inspirational, evocative, and persuasive speaker
- Skilled in Family Systems and Adaptive Leadership
- Project management
- Direct Appeal Fundraising
- Event planning
- Preparing and delivering presentations
- Determining client needs and problem solving
- Preparing monthly reports
- Negotiation and conflict transformation
- Managing the maintenance of facilities
- Preparing and managing budgets
- Software
- General: MS Office Suite, Google Drive, iWork Suite
- QuickBooks, Wave
- Website: Wix, WordPress, Web.com, Weebly
- Email Marketing: MailChimp, Vertical Response, Constant Contact
- Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
EXPERIENCE
Minister | Hopedale Unitarian Parish | Hopedale, MA | 2015-Present
- Compose, design, and present multiple original, meaningful presentations on weekly deadlines
- Increased annual fundraising income by 300%
- Spearheaded a building project to transform 1898 building into an ADA compliant facility
- Pioneered congregational branding and logo
- Developed new website, podcast, YouTube channel, and increased social media presence
- Serve as media spokesperson and community representative including serving on the board of Milford Area Humanitarian Coalition and Hopedale Opiate Task Force
Consulting Minister | Unitarian Universalist Church of Weymouth | Weymouth, MA | 2018-Present
- Leading missioning and visioning process
- Educating leaders about church size dynamics, family systems, adaptive leadership theory, and related topics
Consultant | Thoreau Woods UU Church, Huntsville, TX/Unitarian Fellowship of Houston, Houston, TX | 2014-2015
- Prepared multiple original presentations on weekly deadlines
- Managed successful missioning and visioning process for both congregations
- Introduced branding and social media, renovated websites
Interim Director of Family Ministry | First Parish Church in Weston | Weston, MA | 2012-2013
- Prepared multiple original presentations on weekly deadlines
- Recruited and trained a team of volunteers to perform various community service projects
- Trained volunteers to serve as youth mentors
Director | South Central Alliance of Churches | Fort Worth, TX | 2011-2012
- Developed new efficient intake forms and procedures for rent, utility, and food assistance programs
- Managed Summer Youth Food Service Program that fed over 300 children weekly
- Moved to Client Tracker, an online data management system
- Created a Client/Community Advisory Board that to make sure services met needs of clients
- Developed partnerships with the municipal agencies and a domestic violence shelter
Minister | Pathways Church | Southlake, TX | 2008-2011
- Prepared multiple original presentations on weekly deadlines
- Introduced and implemented a comprehensive adult spiritual formation program
- Developed geographically based small group ministry
- Recruited and trained a team of volunteers that spent dozens of hours per month physically moving formerly homeless persons into housing
- Served as media spokesperson and community representative including serving on the board of the Keller Farmers Market and Tarrant County Interfaith Homelessness Coalition
Consultant | First Parish Church in Billerica | Billerica, MA | 2007-2008
- Prepared multiple original presentations on weekly deadlines
- Trained volunteer leaders
- Founding member of Billerica Cares anti-racism group
Intern | First Parish Church in Weston | Weston, MA | 2005-2007
- Prepared multiple original presentations on weekly deadlines
- Counseled and advocated for clients in skilled nursing facility
- Trained volunteer leaders to serve as mentors for youth
- Designed and produced monthly creative arts and music event
Director of Spiritual Care and Volunteers | Gardner Visiting Nurses Association | Gardner, MA | 2005-2006
- Counseled hospice clients and their families
- Developed diversity training program for hospice volunteers and staff
- Trained volunteers who provided dozens of hours of service to hospice clients monthly
Director | Family Lifeline Volunteers | Worcester, MA | 2003-2004
- Recruited, vetted, placed, and provided support for long term volunteers
- Direct appeal and special projects fundraising
- Created website and instituted online giving
Visiting Lecturer | Fitchburg State University | Fitchburg, MA | 1995-2008
- Courses Taught: The Bible as Literature; Seeing and Believing: Religion, Values, and Ethics in Contemporary Film
High School Teacher | Boston-area Catholic High Schools | Boston, MA | 1994-2003
- Taught religion and ethics to diverse student population
- Developed and coordinated an academic awards program
- Activities outside of classroom: chess & tennis coach and mountain bike club and class advisor
Published Writer
- Novel: Saint Somebody Central Catholic, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley, CA 2017
- Regular Columnist for The Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s “Keep the Faith” feature
- Journal Articles and Newspaper Op-Ed pieces
EDUCATION
Master of Divinity | Harvard Divinity School | Cambridge, MA
Certificate in Spiritual Direction | Heart Paths Dallas | Dallas, TX
Clinical Pastoral Education | Pittsfield Religious Resource Center/Berkshire Medical Center | Pittsfield, MA
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Professional Writing | Fitchburg State College | Fitchburg, MA