Our 2009-2010 Virtual Roster of Member Pastors

• Senior Pastor: Rev. Maurisa Brown-Latham (USA)

Rev. Maurisa is the founder and resident pastor of Unitarian Ministries and Unitarian Ministries International. She is a 2009 graduate of The New Seminary (an NGO in special consultative status with the United Nations). As a registered clergy, she holds a dual ordination as an Interfaith and Unitarian Christian minister. On a personal note, she is a member of the World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy, UU Christian Fellowship, New Seminary Mentor Program, Delta Epsilon Tau (ΔΕΤ) Honor Society, and friend of The Norwegian Unitarian Church. Last but not least, she is a Veteran of the US Army Reserve. Rev. Maurisa can be reached by e-mail.

Mitchell is the co-founder and resident assistant pastor of Unitarian Ministries. He has been serving as a lay pastor for a little over 2 years. He is a full-time Banker, Certified Professional Locksmith & Security Consultant, and board member of the Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he is a Veteran of the US Army Airborne Corp. Assistant Pastor Mitchell can be reached by    e-mail.

• Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. Lisa A. Morris (USA)

Rev. Dr. Lisa A. Morris is an ordained Unitarian Christian minister with Unitarian Ministries International. She is a podcast producer of the top rated Theology Talk Podcast-The Historical Jesus Project, syndicated talk show host of New Christan Radi0 on Blog Talk Radio, and an independent religious researcher and author. Currently, she is a student of Metaphysics and doctoral candidate at the University of Sedona .

• Senior Pastor: Pastor Ya'akov S. Litman (USA)

Religious Educational Background International Theological Seminary-Zellwood Florida

Duarte Costa School of Religion-Kansas City Mo. Certificate of Completion

St.Catherine of Alexandria House of Studies-Tampa, Florida OJT for the Priesthood
 
Ordained to the Diaconate-June 8th,1993
Ordained to the Priesthood-June 8th,1996                                       Ordained to the Unitarian Christian Church-January 31st, 2010

Clergy Title                                              Pastor Ya'akov S. Litman (Nickname-Jim)

Ministerial Services 
Served under the tutilidge of 5 Independent Catholic Bishops.
Currently incardinated with The White Robed Monks of St.Benedict and serving as a pastor with Unitarian Ministries International. 

Religious Educational Background Degree in Greek Philosophy, Top Mark by Academic Board

Clergy Title
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Ministerial Services                                  May 2004: Founder of Christian Unitarian Italian Congregation (CICU) 

April 2005: CICU recognized by CESNUR (important center of study about religious in Italy.

July 2005: Joined the ELPN and IARF meetings as CICU founder and delegate.

Winter 2005: CICU started an official international partnership with AFCU(France).

February 2006: CICU nominated as Italian emerging group by ICUU.

August 2007: Received letter of vocation from Bet David Unitarian Association of Norway. Started a specifical study for ordination followed by Rev. Knut Heidelberg.

Promoted and sang the Avignon Manifest for a larger Christian Unitarian cooperation in Europe.

November 2007: Joined ICUU meeting in Oberwesel as Italian delegate by CICU emerging group.

November 2008: Received the Ordination to the Unitarian Priesthood.

• Senior Pastor: Rabbi Joseph A. Chandler (USA)

“A talmid is not above his rabbi; but each one, when he is fully trained, will be like his rabbi.” (Luke 6:40 CJB) I am dedicated to restoring the understanding of the Common Roots of Christianity and Judaism while Renewing ALL with a Personal Walk and a Real Relationship with the God of Israel with all the Power of the Holy Spirit. Many within the Christian Faith have been missing out of so much Truth and Blessings by missing the Hebraic Roots. And at the same time Yeshua/Jesus has been so misunderstood by many within Judaism as well because Yeshua/Jesus has not been presented within the Hebraic foundation that he stood on. Yeshua/Jesus was/is a Jew. The disciples (students) of Yeshua/Jesus were Jewish. Both the Jewish and non-Jewish first century believers in Yeshua/Jesus kept the Biblical Feast days. I desire to see all to understand the rich Hebraic/Jewish heritage that the God of Israel gave to His people while also bringing them into that Personal Relationship with God. In doing so, I seek to understand and interpret the Bible from a Hebraic perspective and background. All the time being open for the Spirit of God to refresh and renew as He pours out His Spirit to all those willing to surrender their will to His Will and let God do whatever He desires in us today.

Religious Educational Background   1986-1990 General Bible Course Diploma at Liberty Home Bible Institute, Lynchburg, VA

1991-1996 Degree Obtained: Bachelor of Theology and Master of Arts in Biblical Studies at American Bible College and Seminary, Bethany, OK

1999-2001 Degree Obtained: Doctor in Practical Ministry in Chaplaincy at Master’s Graduate School of Divinity, Newburgh, IN

Ministerial Ordinations       Ordination with the Missionary Church International (1995).

Licensed Messianic Minister (2000) with the Messianic Bureau International.

Ordained as a Messianic Minister with the Messianic Israel Alliance (Spring 2001). Messianic Rabbi (Fall 2001) with Tel Aviv Messianic Fellowship.

Ordained with Unitarian Ministries International (2010).

Clergy Title(s)                                Rabbi, Chaplain, Preacher, and Doctor                                          

Ministerial Services                           2004-Now Associate Chaplain With Emergency Services Chaplaincy

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team Member, Aiken County, SC

2000-2004 Emergency Responder Chaplain of Aiken County(SC) Emergency Services and the Aiken County Fire Fighters Association

2001-2002 Messianic Rabbi & Minister, In Him Ministries

Led Messianic Services with Torah Study at Souls Harvest and Deliverance Church in Jackson, SC on Friday nights as on Ordained Messianic Rabbi in a non-paid ministerial and teaching position.

1996-2002 Chaplain of Jackson Volunteer Fire Dept., Jackson, SC

1999-2001 Director of Jackson First Alert Rescue Squad, Jackson, SC

1999-2000 Youth Pastor, Matlock Baptist Church

Served as the Youth Pastor and also assisted the Senior Pastor as needed and filled in when he was out of town with teaching, preaching, visitation, etc.

1999 Member of Federation of Fire Chaplains, Clifton, Texas

1998-1999 Member of the National Academy of Chaplains, Gladstone, Oregon

1996-1998 Pastor, Jackson Christian Fellowship Church

Served as a bi-vocational pastor for a small church. Ordained by the Missionary Church International

• Pastor: Anthony Dawson (United Kingdom)

I describe myself as a Unitarian Christian - as a follower of Christ
who tries to be Christlike in my actions without the constriction of
historic creeds. I feel that we are all called to be Christ Like and
contain the innate potential in ourselves to not only "save" ourselves but to be Christ Like. We just had to explore ourselves, listen to that "still small voice of calm" within and let it out. Let our light
shine in the darkness. That we are called to have the faith OF Jesus
not a faith ABOUT Jesus.

Clergy Title                                           Lay Preacher

Ministerial Services                       A Lay Preacher for Four Years With the Unitarian & Free Christian Church

A Supporting Member of the Unitarian Christian Association in Great Britain

Served his Congregation as an Organist and Choirmaster for Several Years

Active in the LGBT Groups Whilst
a University Student and Also Involved With Interfaith and Ecumenical Dialogue Concerning LGBT Rights and Issues

Lead Workshops and Seminars on the History of Homophobia and the Bible

• Pastor: Lewis Rees                 (United Kingdom)
  

 I am lay pastor of Gellionnen and Graig Unitarian Church in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK, and am slowly working towards full ministerial status through an amalgamation of studies at Trinity College Carmarthen, Harris Manchester College Oxford and Coleg yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg/College of the Welsh Independents (Congregational).       I am an active member of the Unitarian Christian Association in the UK with my particular liberal Christian spirituality being that of following the spirit of the religion of Jesus rather than the more 'orthodox' religion about Jesus.
I am happy to provide rites of passage services to all who sincerely request them at our beautiful mountaintop chapel, or elsewhere as requirements and the law allow. 

• Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. Ian David Ellis-Jones (Australia)

I believe in the indivisible Oneness of the Godhead and the supremacy and leadership of Jesus Christ whom I regard as not only Way-Shower but also my personal Lord and Saviour as he shows me and others the way out of selfishness, which lies at the heart of all sin, and by means of his vicarious spirituality and overcoming, delivers me out of what would otherwise be a perpetual state of bondage to ego-self, self-centredness and self-absorption. For me, that is a vision of Jesus with which we should be able to identify, with both intellectual honesty and at emotional depth – redemption, or regeneration, in the form of being made free from ourselves and from the world, so that we can both find, and lose, ourselves in a greater and wider reality that is timeless and infinite, ultimate and ineffable. Identification with both the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith can lead us to a spiritual regeneration aided and assisted by the vicarious spirituality of the Man from Galilee who was able to say, with complete honesty and humility, “I and my Father are one” (Jn 10:30), but this can only occur in the manner referred to above to the extent to which we open ourselves and are otherwise responsive to the outpoured life of Jesus present both in the race consciousness and, mystically, in the depths of our own spiritual lives as part of the Presence, indeed Omnipresence, of God-life. Thus, David Torkington in his book The Mystic writes of making contact with Jesus in his “resurrection life” in which you “can no longer see Jesus as you used to because you are within Him and are being fitted into Him more perfectly in your prayer than ever before”. After all, did not Jesus say, “the Father is in me, and I in him” (Jn 10:38), and “I am in my Father: and you in me, and I in you” (Jn 14:20), before going on to pray to the Father, “that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us” (Jn 17:21)? In short, not only is the fullness of God’s life to be found and experienced in the full humanity of Jesus, mystically we experience that Oneness with the Father through our encounter with Jesus who, as an integral part of God’s Omnipresence, is one with us in and through the power of consciousness, prayer and meditation. I believe in the Divinity (as opposed to the Deity) of Jesus Christ. I also believe in the innate divinity (sacred worth and value) of all human beings, indeed all creation. Rev. Dr. Ellis-Jones is the minister of the Unitarian Church in New South Wales and the Senior Minister of the Sydney Unitarian Church. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy with the University of Technology, Sydney.

List of Resources & Services That our Member Pastors Currently Render  

• Sponsoring free-thinking religious study groups & discussions via internet and teleconference

• Contributing articles, periodicals, and sermons to our online ministry

• Authoring Unitarian Christian education & devotional books

• Providing spiritual counseling & direction via e-mail, telephone, or in-person

• Officiating Unitarian  Christian & Interfaith religious rituals and ceremonies 

• Facilitating online & offline classes, seminars, & workshops with a Unitarian Christian or Interfaith faith focus

• Guest speaking at    Unitarian Christian & Interfaith worship services

Disclaimer: It is within the spirit of promoting ministerial integrity and the safety & security of fellow Unitarians that we ask that any Unitarian Christian seeking the private services of our member pastors to verify their personal and ministerial background before obtaining their assistance. It is the responsibility of each member pastor to provide this information directly. Due to the limited nature of our ministry, we are unable to legitimize or validate anyone's credentials or reputation except for those who are authorized to carry out ministerial affairs on behalf of Unitarian Ministries (such as the resident pastor and resident assistant pastor).