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The Paint Branch Ministerial Search Committee is happy to announce that we have chosen our final candidate for minister!
Our candidate has a deep commitment to social justice and to social action. She is an effective leader who also knows how to nurture the leadership abilities of others. Her wonderful blend of experience and open-mindedness will be a source of steady, warm support for Paint Branch members in times of crisis. She will work extremely well with our Music Director to craft worship services infused with many kinds of music. She is eager and excited to work with our Religious Exploration Director.
She is a perfect theological fit for Paint Branch: a humanist who will encourage thoughtful and respectful explorations of all theological perspectives so that everyone feels comfortable in worship and other aspects of church life.
In her quiet but forceful way, our candidate will challenge us to make our values real through our actions. She will enjoy and foster laughter and humor as she works with us to move forward together in whatever new directions we want to take.
Who is she?
She is Rev. Diane Teichert, currently Assistant Minister at First Parish Church in Bedford, Massachusetts. She has been an ordained Unitarian Minister for over 13 years and served 10 of those years at First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Canton, Massachusetts. During her ministry there, First Parish became a Welcoming Congregation, was active in the campaign for equal marriage, welcomed four new gay couples, and hired their first professional Music Director.
Before her dedication to ministry, Diane spent fifteen years of her professional life working as a community and labor organizer for nonprofit organizations. She tackled a number of different issues including neighborhood health care, crime prevention, women clerical workers’ rights on the job, teen pregnancy prevention, and public school reform. She’s worked with working class families, senior citizens, office workers and racially-mixed urban communities at workplace, local, state and national levels. Diane is most proud of her success in building truly bi-racial chapters of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. Check out Diane's Resume to find out more.
As Diane says in her own Ministerial Record, she brings to ministry “a passion for social justice and a commitment to anti-racism” along with valuable experience including how to reach out to and involve newcomers, how to engage members in the life of an organization, and how to provide support as people become leaders for the first time in their lives. She also brings administrative experience including organizational development, media relations, grant-writing, budget management, and staff supervision.
She is married to Don Milton, himself a lifelong Unitarian Universalist. They have two adult children who work for non-profit groups in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.
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