Our Minister
Welcome Rev. Constance Grant
We are very pleased to announce that The Rev. Constance L. Grant will be our Interim Minister, beginning August 1, 2019. Connie (as she prefers to be called) earned her MDiv. From Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2000. She comes to us after a two-year interim ministry at the UU Fellowship of Midland, MI. Previously, she had served as the called Congregational Life Minister at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, IL, Minister for Education at the UU Society of Sacramento, CA, and Interim Minister of Religious Education at the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights, OH.
Rev. Grant is absolutely thrilled to be coming here and can't wait to begin her ministry at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh. She requested that we share with the congregation what she considers her professional mission: Helping people live lives of meaning and wholeness through Unitarian Universalist congregational life.
Welcome Rev. Grant. We look forward to you joining with us.
Rev. Grant is absolutely thrilled to be coming here and can't wait to begin her ministry at the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh. She requested that we share with the congregation what she considers her professional mission: Helping people live lives of meaning and wholeness through Unitarian Universalist congregational life.
Welcome Rev. Grant. We look forward to you joining with us.
Our Commissioned Lay Minister
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Our church is currently being served by our Commissioned Lay Minister Stephanie Pawlowski. A Commissioned Lay Minister is an active and committed lay member of a Unitarian Universalist congregation; someone who has a high level of integrity and has earned the respect of fellow congregants. Stephanie has completed her almost three years of training and interviewed with the Commissioned Lay Minister Council of the Central East Region. She was officially commissioned by our congregation in December of 2018. Stephanie’s ministry is focused on worship services and rites of passage (weddings, baby dedications and memorial services).
Stephanie has an undergraduate degree in Religion from Bethany College. Following college, she took a different path professionally and received a law degree from the State University of NY at Buffalo. Stephanie currently works full time as a lawyer and works with First Church as a volunteer. Stephanie lives in Point Breeze with her husband, Mark, their two children, Evelyn and Katie, and Evelyn’s service dog, Gibbs.
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Our Consulting Minister
The Reverend John Ballance is a long time Unitarian Universalist from the UU Church of the North Hills and is recent graduate of the Meadville Lombard Theological School of Chicago, Illinois. John is well known at First Unitarian Church since he completed his ministerial internship in our congregation in 2016. Rev. Ballance was ordained by the UU Church of the North Hills in 2018. Rev. Ballance will be serving our church this spring as a part-time consulting minister focusing primarily on pastoral care. Rev. Ballance can be reached by email at johnbballance@gmail.com or by phone at 724-312-4712.