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Leadership
Our New Settled Minister
I am very happy to announce that on Sunday May 4, the members of First
Unitarian Church of Providence voted to call Rev. James Ishmael Ford as our next settled minister. The vote was 97.8% in approval.
Rev. Ford as accepted the call, and we look forward to his arrival as
our minister in August.
Neil Bartholomew
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Rev. Ford was ordained in 1991 and has served churches in Wisconsin and Arizona before being called to the First Unitarian Society in Newton, MA in 2000. James says "I see our mission as Unitarian Universalists as nothing less than healing the broken heart and healing our broken world."
James is also a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and has written two books about Zen Buddhism, one of them for UUs published by Skinner House Press, the UUA publisher. He has also written articles for UU World and UUA pamphlets.
He has been married to Jan Seymour-Ford for 25 years. Jan is a research
librarian at The Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts.
The Ministerial Search Committee
Stewart Armstrong, Andrew Barrett, Jim Estey, Martha Manno,Chair, Merritt Meyer, Janet Noble, Rita Rossi |
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