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The Reverend Cecilia Kingman Miller is a graduate of Starr King School for
the Ministry, a member school of the
Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley,
CA, where she received a Masters of
Divinity in 2003. Cecilia will be serving EUUC while we search for our new settled minister.
She has served
congregations in Portland and Eugene,
and since 1999 has been a stewardship consultant for
congregations throughout the UUA. In 2006 Cecilia
won the UUA’s Stewardship Sermon Award, and her
essay on generosity as a spiritual practice was
published in Living a Call. She is active in our
denominational life, serving on various boards and
committees.
Cecilia spent part of her seminary education among
the Unitarians of Transylvania, Romania, living there
with her children and working with local church
leaders on sustainable agricultural development
projects. Since 2001, she has served as Vice-
President of Project Harvest Hope, a
Unitarian non-profit providing faith-based
sustainable development assistance in
Transylvania. Cecilia leads pilgrimages each
year, bringing North American UUs to the
Unitarian homelands.
Cecilia is a collaborative leader, and believes
strongly in an active laity. She feels that the
sharing of tasks among professional and
volunteer leadership makes for a more vibrant
congregational life. She says, “I believe one of the
minister’s most important roles is to nurture and
support the gifts of others, so that they may be
brought into full flower in the life of the community.
In my ideal, the minister and staff are a collaborative
and creative team, working together with the laity to
build a healthy and thriving church.”
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