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Building an Urban Outreach Ministry
Workshop leaders:
Rev. Ken Brown and Rev. Sherri Puchalsky
About the Workshop:
The workshop will describe the creation and evolution of the Unitarian
Universalist
Urban Ministry of Los Angeles. This urban outreach ministry was created as
part of the
response to the riots in Los Angeles in 1992. The founding board had members
from six
different UU congregations. The programs have ranged from a food pantry and
an urban
farmers market to ESL classes and tutoring for neighborhood children. This
model of a
regional ministry that connects us to our communities is one of the
possibilities for
helping to sustain urban ministry in UU congregations.
Workshop leader biographies:
Rev. Ken Brown is currently District Executive of the Pacific Southwest
District. A UU
minister for 26 years, he was the founder of the UU Urban Ministry of Los
Angeles serving
as its first Board chair. He was also the consulting minster at First
Unitarian Church of
Los Ageles from 1994-1996. He has also been chair of the UU Urban Church
Coalition in the
1980's and again in the 1990's.
Rev. Sherri Puchalsky is minister of First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
since 1998
and in that capacity she works with the UU Urban Ministry. Sherri is also
involved with a
number of community projects of the First Unitarian Church.
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