The Reverend Kay Greenleaf
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Our Minister: The Rev. Kay Greenleaf |
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Our minister, The Rev. Kay Greenleaf, is an ordained and licensed Unitarian Universalist minister in Final Fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association. In 1997, she was ordained by the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Ohio. Prior to her call to Poughkeepsie in 1998, she served as Consulting Minister to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Morgantown, W.Va., the Unitarian Universalist Congregation East, Reynoldsburg, Oh., and All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Bellville, Oh. She also served as chaplain for Doctor's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Rev. Greenleaf holds a Masters in Divinity from the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio with course work from Meadville/Lombard School for Ministry (University of Chicago).
She is a former high school teacher of creative writing and theatre arts, a licensed social worker. Prior to entering ministry, she was a 25 year veteran of social justice work. Most of her professional life has been spent working with people and families who were nearly destroyed by the circumstances of their lives. From this, she learned that, for many, poverty is bearable if inner lives are rich. It is individual despair that creates real deprivation.
Rev. Greenleaf continues to work for social justice and for the inclusion of the disenfranchised in UU congregations and in the world. Ending racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism is critical to making the world spiritually richer and more humane. She has for many years been an advocate for gay, lesbian and bisexual and transgender rights and believes that Unitarian Universalist churches are important allies to the gay community. She believes that if we are ever to achieve world peace, we must cease trying to define ourselves as different from each other.
Rev. Greenleaf may be contacted by e-mail at RevKayG@aol.com or through the Fellowship office.
Sabbatical/Retirement: Reverend Kay will be retiring at the end of June, 2009.