Rev Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get "unstuck" and live from deep gladness. Contact her at: .
Rev. Maddie Sifantus retired in July 2024 as full time, ten year settled minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula, California where she is now Minister Emerita. Before that she served two small formerly Universalist congregations in Massachusetts. She was originally ordained by the First Parish in Wayland in 2002 as a community minister. She served as First Parish’s Affiliate Community Minister until she moved to Santa Paula in 2014. She is the Founder and Director/Emerita of the senior citizen chorus she directed for 20 years, the Golden Tones. She enjoys supply preaching, leading Rites of Passages, spiritual companioning, her professional singing career and seeing her family who live in Pasadena.
In this time of year as we are poised to go headlong into the end-of-the-year holiday season and everywhere we go the sounds of familiar carols are piped into elevators, stores, and restaurants, Rev. Maddie Sifantus will consider the historic hymn sung in this season which was written by Unitarian minister Edmund Hamilton Sears: It … Continue reading Calm On the Listening Ear
