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Who We Are Ministry and Staff Reverend Millie Rochester

Reverend Millie Rochester, Minister

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Rev. Millie

Reverend Millie Rochester

Our minister, the Rev. Millie Rochester, describes her ministry as one of relationship, and to that end believes it is everything we do, together. She is active in the wider Unitarian Universalist movement, serving as Field Adviser for a seminarian at Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a mentor for a colleague who is relatively new to ministry.

Rev. Millie grew up in Maine and the San Francisco Bay area. She attended University of the Pacific and California State University, where she met her life partner, Roger, and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. She and Roger have been married since 1971. They have four grown children and a beautiful granddaughter, all of whom live in Oregon.

millie1_sm3.pngMillie served as Director of Religious Education for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem, Oregon for twelve years before receiving her Masters of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School.  She was a Chaplain at the Veterans Administration Center in Portland, Oregon, and interned in Cleveland, before serving the First Unitarian Church in Chicago for two years. They moved to Florida in 2005, where she served as Associate Minister for the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater before coming to Winnipeg.

Millie is available during her office hours at the church—Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10-3—and by appointment at other times. She looks forward to talking with you about your own spiritual journey, your concerns, and your joys, creating justice in the world, or whatever subject you would like to explore.

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“When dying comes calling at the door, like a bracing wind it clears our being of pettiness. It connects us to others. More alert to life’s fragility, we reawaken to life’s preciousness. To be fully human is to care, and attending to death prompts the most eloquent form of caring imaginable.”

~ by Forrest Church, source: Wikipedia

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Worship & RE
Sun Feb 05 @12:00PM - 02:00PM
19 Ways to Heal & Transform the World
Sun Feb 05 @ 2:30PM - 04:30PM
Spirits Call Choir
Sun Feb 05 @ 6:30PM - 07:15PM
Passage Meditation and Mantram
Mon Feb 06 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM
Rainbow Choir
Mon Feb 06 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM
Religious Exploration Committee Meeting

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Brief History of Unitarianism

The doctrine of Unitarianism (i.e. rejection of the Trinity) has also appeared occasionally in history, but it has been formally considered heresy since the Council of Nicea in 325.

Unitarian churches were formed in the 16th century in Romania and Poland, and in 1553 Michael Servetus was famously burned at the stake for his unitarian views by John Calvin. In the United States, a Unitarian movement arose among Congregational churches in New England in the late 1700s, causing a major dispute with in the denomination. The American Unitarian Association (AUA) was founded as a separate denomination in 1825.

(Source: religionfacts.com)

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