My ministry career has allowed me to serve as a Chaplin at the VA Hospital in Cleveland, and as an Interim minister at the Kent UU church, Cape Town South Africa Unitarian Church, Peoria Il, and now at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Rosa.
Currently I am serving as the Director of the Interim Ministers Network (IMN) annual conference and have written and published a book about my experiences of living and working as a full time Unitarian minister in Cape Town South Africa called, “When the Elephant Laughed.” Living, and serving as a Minister outside of my native country has been and continues to be a life changing experience. As an Interim Minister it is always exciting to learn new ways to engage the congregation especially fostering deep and spiritual connections during this unique time of COVID-19 and after COVID as we our reinventing and reimaging church and ways to make it relevant in our world today.
Please join us for a special joint worship at UUP with our friends from Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa, featuring Revs. Aija Simpson-Newbury and Dave Clements, with worship participants Nancy Blake, Erin Bertsch, and Era Capone, and musicians Lauren Xie, David Dodd, Sally Jones, Gage Purdy, Cantor Rachel Walters Steiner, the UUP Larking About Choir, … Continue reading Stepping Off the Straight & Narrow
with Worship Leaders Rev. Dave Clements and Rev. Aija Simpson-Newbury; Worship Associate Gage Purdy; and musicians Gage Purdy, Sally Jones, and pianist Roger Corman Save the date for this very special event, as our entire congregation is invited to join with the Santa Rosa congregation at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa (547 Mendocino Ave, downtown Santa Rosa). This will … Continue reading Field Trip Service: Joint Worship with UU Santa Rosa – “Songs of Resistance and Peace”
