At the annual Congregational Meeting on June 8, the following Officers
and Board Members were elected:
Officers 2008-09 (One Year
Term)
President: Kathy Santo
Vice President: Marjorie Ramos
Secretary: Ruth Benson
Treasurer: Harry Hicks
Trustees
To June 2009 |
To June 2010 |
To June 2011 |
Mary Campbell |
Brendan Spillane |
Maureen Curran |
Ralph Martel |
Paola Suarez-Papp |
Ann Kalil |
Margarita Muinelo |
Cynthia Wong |
Kevin Clark |
CHURCH CALLS REV. SUSAN KARLSON
AS SETTLED MINISTER

At a Congregational Meeting after the Sunday May 4 service, the Congregation voted to call Rev. Susan Karlson as our new Settled Minister.
A champagne toast followed in the Parish Hall. Susan and her husband have now returned to Wilminton andGulfport, and will be moving into
the parsonage on or around August 15th.
Brief bio of Rev Karlson
Rev. Susan Karlson currently serves as the Consulting Minister for the Gulf Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (GCUUF) in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Last year, the Metro New York District Chalice Lighter program supported GCUUF and that Chalice Lighter grant helped bring Susan to Mississippi
this year. Prior to ministry on the Gulf Coast, Susan served as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wilmington in Wilmington, NC.
She still resides half time in Wilmington with her husband, Alan Kindler, commuting to Mississippi the other half of each month. In Wilmington she
serves as the Co-Chair of the Ministerial Roundtable, an interracial and interfaith clergy group whose purpose is to heal the wounds of racial injustice
in the congregations, communities and personal lives of the clergy members. Susan also serves on the Board of Directors for the African American
Heritage Foundation in Wilmington. She received her Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and Final
Fellowship as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2006. Susan has a Master of Social Work degree and retains her license as a Licensed Clinical Social
Worker in Virginia where she worked with children, adults and families recovering from child sexual abuse. She had a previous calling to ministry as
an ordained minister of yoga.