ICUU Executive Committee from left to right: Brian Kiely, David Shaw, Pauline Rooney,
Celia Midgley, David Gyero and Nihal Attanayake
President: Brian Kiely
8908 143rd St
Edmonton, Alberta T5R 0P2 Canada brikie@aol.com
+1-780-455-9797
Skype: brikie2
Unitarian Minister of Edmonton Unitarian Church
former Pres of CUC
Brian has served as the Minister of the Unitarian Church of Edmonton since 1997. Before that he was the founding minister of South Fraser Unitarian Congregation in Surrey, British Columbia. Brian served on the Board of the Canadian Unitarian Council as that organization became the central service provider to Canadian congregations. He was CUC President from 2004-2006. Formerly a journalist and photographer, he is a past Editor of "The Canadian Unitarian". Brian is happily married and the proud father of two little girls. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, golf and Canadian Football.
Vice-President: Pauline Rooney
Rose Park, South Australia, Australia
skype: pauline.rooney1
Living in Adelaide South Australia, I discovered the Unitarian Church in Norwood 10 years ago and and felt that I had come home at last. Since joining our church I have run a women's group which meets monthly to discuss philosophical and spiritual topics ,and life matters in general.
I am also co-convener of the Unitarian Radio Group which has produced a weekly radio program over the past 6 years. I have served on the COM during that time and currently assist our treasurer in compiling the church budget.
I am a wife of Craig for 40 years, have 3 children and 5 grandchildren .Now retired, in my past working life I have been a teacher, completed my MBA from Deakin University in Victoria and was involved in running our family business for 35 years.During that time I was involved in many state ,regional and national Boards and was recognised as the South Australian Business Woman of the Year in 1996.
I am currently chairman of Waterfind, a national Water Trading Company based in Adelaide and a director of SunSure Water a company producing solar water purifiers distributed to over 100 sites in counties around the world and a committee member of the Women,s Housing Association which provides housing for disadvantaged women in South Australia.
I would like to understand more about the workings of the Unitarian churches around the world and strengthen the ties between our community( which sometimes feels quite isolated ) and the strong foundations of Unitarian Communities in Europe and USA
Secretary:Gyerő Dávid
The Unitarian Church in Transylvania, Romania
400105 Kolozsvár/Cluj, B-dul 21 Decembrie nr. 9
Phone: +40 264593236
Fax: +40 364450557 www.unitarius.com, dgyero@unitarius.com
YIM ID: gyerodavid, Skype ID: gyerodavid
I was born in the southern part of Transylvania – central Romania – in a family with agricultural traditions. I graduated from a Protestant high school with ancient traditions in Sepsiszentgyorgy, and then I spent five years at the Unitarian Seminary in Kolozsvar. As a student, I devoted a lot of energy to finding resources for the youth organization of the church, the David Ferenc Unitarian Youth Association: money, programs, and a vision for growth that also included leadership support.
For the next 5 years, I volunteered to work for this youth association building organizational structure, organizing projects, and developing national and local programs with my colleagues. I had built closer connections with other European liberal religious youth within an old organization, International Religious Fellowship, as well as with the North-American Unitarian Universalist youth through the Partner Church Council. I gained some initial understanding of the possibilities for interfaith outreach and support by attending conferences and congresses of the International Association for Religious Freedom, and by visiting the United States in 1998, making youth connections and raising interest in the partner church movement.
My institutional connections with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists started in 2001, when I attended an international leadership training in the Khasi Hills, India. I participated in the 2005 (Barcelona) and 2007 (Oberwesel) council meetings as an observer. In 2006, I was the local organizer of the Second ICUU Theological Symposium in Kolozsvár, and in September 2009, I coordinated the local organization of the ICUU council meeting in Kolozsvár.
Starting October 2001, I work at the Headquarters of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania in Kolozsvar as the councilor for church administration. In 2004-2008, I was a student of the Law School of the Babes-Bolyai University in the city, obtaining a jurist degree in 2008. That fall, I enrolled a masters program in European law at the Law School of the Pécs University in Hungary, which I graduated in 2009. Since May 2009, next to my work at the headquarters, I am the minister of the Kolozs Unitarian Church as well.
Treasurer: David Shaw
Meadow Hey, Adlington Lane
Grindleford S32 2HT, England
+441433630541
no skype
Unitarian Minister of Great Hucklow, England
I became a Unitarian some thirty-seven years ago after stepping into the Unitarian youth club at Altrincham, a few miles south of the city of Manchester, England. Since then I have been involved in many Unitarian activities and committees together with a keen interest in Unitarians in other countries. Acquaintances have grown through personal visits and official Unitarian work which has included being a staff member at Leadership Courses, on behalf of the ICUU, in Sri Lanka (1995) and in the Khasi Hills (2006). I was elected Treasurer of ICUU in 2007.
Having spent thirty years in education class teaching, as a head teacher and working for local authorities, I decided to train as a Unitarian minister and qualified in June 2007. My ministry is in the centre of Britain in the small rural village of Great Hucklow - a village where the British Unitarian Holiday and Conference Centre is to be found.
I am married to Liz, who is also a Unitarian and when not involved in Unitarian activities, live quietly in the countryside, enjoying our garden and two cats.
Member at Large : Nihal Attanayake
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines
65 Rovira Road, Bantayan, 6200 Dumaguete City, Philippines.
Tele Fax. +6335 422 7882
Email naattanayake@uuphilippines.org
Website www.uuphilippines.org
Mobile: +639195800447
no skype
Responsibilities:
International Relations Officer for the Philippine Church
Chairperson: Faith in Action Committee
Director: Church Partnerships, Student Scholarships, Community Capacity Building, Social Justice, Ecumenical and Interfaith programs
Manager: Ted Guild Village Bank and Micro Finance
Member: Executive Committee (Board at Large) ICUU
Educational attainment Master of Theology ( South East Asia Graduate School of Theology)
Member at Large : Femi Matimoju
6, Ondo Str, Council Idimu, Lagos, Nigeria
+234 803 322 6597
skype: Femmati
First Unitarian Church Inc.
I was born 38 years ago to the Unitarian family of late Rev. Olatunji Matimoju (founder of First Unitarian Church and former council member of International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) and late Mrs. Taiwo Matimoju (a business tycoon). I am married for almost ten years to Mrs. Abiola Matimoju with four children (Eniola (M) 7yrs, Oyinkansola (f) 5yrs, Olasubomi (f) 3yrs and Bibiola (f) eleven months).
I am a master’s degree holder in Social Works and presently work with the Lagos State Government in the Office of Youth and Social Development as a Principal Social Welfare Officer for almost ten (10) years. I have been the General Secretary of First Unitarian Church for almost twenty years and have been the main contact of both Unitarian congregations in Nigeria.
Member at Large : Rev. Celia Midgley
The Parsonage, Sylvan Grove,Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 4NU, UK celiamidgley@hotmail.com
skype: john.midgley60
A Unitarian from birth. I have been involved, as member and leader, at every level of the British General Assembly, culminating in the Presidency of 2007-8. I am still involved at many levels, and having recently completed 20 years full time ministry with my present congregations in Manchester, I am now in my final year, half-time, in preparation for retirement which will give me more time for other things, including ICUU.
Marriage to John Midgley, also a minister, means that ours is a busy Unitarian household, though I do also try to make time for family, leisure and learning. I have a love of poetry and wild flowers.
My international experience includes attendance at a number of IARF Congresses and secretaryship of the International Association of Liberal Religious Women from 1987 - 1993. I have attended meetings and conducted worship in Canada, the USA and South Africa. In 2008 I was privileged to visit Transylvania and to preach the Pentecost sermon in First Church Kolozsvár.
My ICUU experience includes three weeks’ ministry to the Prague congregation in exile in 1998 and some further visits there, responsibility for the worship at the 2001 Oxford Symposium and attendance as a delegate at the 2005, 2007 and 2009 ICUU Council Meetings.
Executive Secretary (half-time): Rev. Steve Dick
Executive Secretary, ICUU
345 Addiscombe Road, Croydon CR0 7LG, UK
+44 20 8407 2866 execsec@icuu.net
Until recently the Rev. Steve Dick served as Chief Executive of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches – Unitarian congregations in Great Britain. Steve is American by birth and a British Unitarian minister by training. The majority of his life has been lived in Europe married to Jenneke, a Dutch woman whose grandfather was a liberal religious minister. In addition to serving as a congregational minister and District Executive in England, Steve was a founder of European Unitarian Universalists and he was employed part-time by IARF. His broad perspective and spirituality benefits from his cross-cultural experience. He works from the ICUU Secretariat in Croydon, UK and he also currently serves (part-time) as minister to the Unitarian congregation in Horsham, England.
Program Coordinator : Jill McAllister
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
skype: jillmca58
UU Minister of Peoples Church, Kalamazoo; CUU service: former treasurer, former president, co-editor of "A Global Conversation" and "The Home We Share", participant and organizer of numerous programs and training conferences. Co-chair of North American Regional Cttee
Local work: National Clergy Advisory Board - Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Vice-President of ISAAC - a local interfaith social justice collaborative; President- Heartland UU Ministers Association. Married to Walter Balk, a UCC Minister, hospital chaplain, and supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education. Three children: Ian - 24, Caitlin - 21, Calvin - 11.
Voluntary Staff supporting the Executive: Lorella Hess
Thousand Oaks, California, USA ICUUED@roadrunner.com
Editor, Global Chalice
A 2nd-generation Unitarian Universalist, Lorella is an American who discovered the ICUU while living in England. She has edited the Global Chalice newsletter since 2001and coordinates the ICUU's Global Chalice Lightings series
Voluntary Staff supporting the Executive: Rev. John Clifford
ICUU Archivist
10 Langdale, East Kilbride G74 4RP, Scotland UK clifford@universalist.ednet.co.uk
skype: john-clifford
"Retired" Unitarian minister in Scotland, which has been home for most of my life since moving to the UK from the USA in 1970 - with a four year stint working for IARF in Germany. I've served Unitarian congregations in England, Scotland, Wales, and Germany. Worked at Unitarian HQ in London for 14 yrs, 12 as Deputy General Secretary. Recently retired from the position of ICUU Executive Secretary after four years of service.
