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         TO VOTE TO APPROVE THE ORDINATION OF

KATHRYN JAY, UUCB DIRECTOR OF FAMILY MINISTRY

 

Dear UUCB Members,

 

Our congregation is honored to have been asked by Kathryn Jay, UUCB’s Director of Family Ministry, to ordain her as a UU minister.  Kathryn graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in 2020 with a Masters in Divinity, and UUCB has been Kathryn’s and her family’s spiritual home for well over a decade.

A sacred tradition of Unitarian Universalism, this ordination is formal recognition of Kathryn’s entry into service as a UU minister and reflects our congregation’s faith in and support for her ministry.  It is also an invitation to individual and communal transformation.

The ordination is scheduled to be held during service on February 16, 2025.

In Beloved Community,

Helen Tinsley-Jones and Pier Sun Ho

Co-presidents, UUCB Board of Trustees

 

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1/19/25 Special Congregational Meeting Agenda

 

1. Call to Order
2. Convene (Quorum Count)
3. Vote to Ordain Kathryn Jay to the Unitarian Universalist Ministry
4. Adjournment

Our congregation is honored to have been asked by Kathryn Jay, UUCB’s Director of Religious Education and Family Ministry, to ordain her as a UU minister. UUCB has been Kathryn’s spiritual home for over a decade, well before she attended seminary. After her ministerial internship in St. Paul, Minnesota, she returned with her family to Berkeley. UUCB is her home church.

UUCB bylaws do not require congregation approval of an ordination, but rather it has been a UUCB tradition which draws support from the UUA.  It is also a sign of our community’s faith in Kathryn’s ability to serve.

Ordination is one of the most important traditions of our faith. A congregation’s decision to ordain someone represents the congregation’s faith in, and support for, the ordinand’s ministry. This recognition of a person’s calling forth is also a recognition of their setting apart, functioning as “a rite of initiation, taking an ordinand from their status as layperson and initiating them into the community of clergy.” In the Unitarian Universalist tradition, the ritual of ordination also allows the minister to use the title of Reverend.

As a formal recognition of entry into service as a Unitarian Universalist minister, ordination offers an invitation to individual and communal transformation, as well as an opportunity to serve our faith in the world.