For more than a year now, our congregation has been engaged in the search for a full-time settled minister. On Sunday May 16, 2010, Rev. Dr. Paul G. Hull accepted our call to be our full-time minister. He will assume his duties September 1, 2010.

Rev. Hull is a native of Kansas, and was educated at the U. of Kansas, where he received his degree in Civil Engineering with graduate work in Environmental Health Engineering. For some years, he operated his own civil engineering firm. Before enrolling in seminary, he was active in Unitarian Universalism and was a lay leader.

Rev. Hull attended seminary at the Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he earned both a master of divinity degree and a doctor of ministry degree. While a seminary student, he was awarded:

-The Schaff prize for best paper on the subject of church history,

-The Dietz Prize for outstanding application of the principles of Pastoral theology

-The Fauth Prize for Academic Excellence

His doctoral dissertation was titled The Sacred Money of Church Endowments: Church Growth and Revitalization from a Postmodern Economic Perspective

Following completion of seminary in 1995, Rev. Hull served as minister for Unitarian Universalist congregations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Massachusetts.

He is a Contributing Author to the book:Awakening the Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions, published by UUA’s Skinner House.

Rev. Hull’s interests include: Music (piano, recorder, guitar, singing), reading, poetry, hiking, bird watching, traveling, films, and canoeing.

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