Congregational Experience

Singing prelude at Christmas Eve Service, 2016

Currently serving as Interim Minister of the Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, Louisville, Kentucky.
Served as called Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, South Carolina.
Served as called Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Midland, Michigan.
Received Final Fellowship from the Ministerial Fellowship Committee in November 2015.
Served as Consulting Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Smithton, Pennsylvania from February 2010 to July 2011.
Received Preliminary Fellowship from the Ministerial Fellowship Committee in September 2010.
Worked as Ministerial Intern at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock from March to December, 2009.
Completed clinical pastoral education unit at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Pittsburgh in 2008.
Graduated from Meadville Lombard Theological School ‘s Modified Residency Program, May 2010.
Also took classes in Religious Studies and Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and online classes through the Starr King School for the Ministry.
Served as Student Minister at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh, 2007-08.

Member from 1989 to 2011.
Full-time religious education teacher, 1991-2007 (taught every grade from 1-12).
Youth advisor, 1995-2007; regular participant in Ohio-Meadville District YRUU conferences .
Adult Co-Chair of the Ohio-Meadville District Youth Adult Committee (YAC), 2001-2007.
Honored with First Unitarian Church Volunteer of the Year Award in 1998.
Former Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee.
Former member of the Music Committee and Choir.

Chrysalis Level IV Youth Advisor with concentration in Youth Spirituality — Continental Youth Advisor Trainer (AT1) — attended training in Boston, November 2000.
Adult-at-large member of the Continental Young Religious UU Youth Council, 1997-1999.
Co-Founder of REC Room, a web site devoted to disseminating information on UU religious education curricula.
Member of the Unitarian Universalist Curriculum and Resource Developers (UUCARDs), a group of UU curriculum writers.
Attended General Assemblies 1998 to 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2013.

Born in Barberton, Ohio in 1956; lived in Pittsburgh, PA from 1967 to 2009.
Married to Jody (2012).
Daughter Ashley (b. 1983) and son Tyler (b. 1986).
Employed at the University of Pittsburgh 1980 to 2008, most recently as Assistant to the Provost.
B.S. in Chemistry (1978) and M.B.A. in Operations Research (1979), both from Pitt.

Rev. Jeff's Muse Kennel and Pizzatorium