With so much going on in our beautiful and hurting world, it is easy to assume that our efforts to help and heal are tiny, insignificant drops in an ocean of need . . . and won’t amount to much. We’re soooo wrong about that . . . aren’t we? Let’s consider this familiar expression and how our UU faith shows us another way of thinking and doing.
Rev Terry is the part-time minister of UU Fellowship of Hendersonville.
She found Unitarian Universalism and her spiritual home at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, where she was a 20-year member. In her ministry, she has served as the neo-natal intensive care unit chaplain at Emory University Midtown Hospital in Atlanta; as the pastoral care minister at Eliot Chapel, a 600-member Unitarian Universalist congregation in St. Louis, Missouri; and as the solo minister at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a 250-member faith community in suburban Atlanta.
Terry and her spouse Gail Hyde moved to Asheville in 2019 after Gail’s retirement as CIO of Habitat for Humanity International. During the early years of the pandemic, Terry completed an intensive two-year spiritual director certification program with the Haden Institute, an international and ecumenical program grounded in Jungian psycho-spiritual teachings.
She has a private spiritual direction and short-term counseling practice in Asheville.
And, for fun and as food for her soul, on Saturdays, Rev. Davis serves as a “Craggy Rover” (volunteer park ranger) on a 5,892-foot peak high above the Blue Ridge Parkway for the National Park Service.
Story for All Ages
Buckets, Dippers, and Lids by Carol McCloud (Author), Glen Zimmer (Illustrator)
Musicians:
UUFH Choir; Jenna Jaffe, Music & Choir Director; Shirley Gruenhut, Piano Accompanist
Jenna Jaffe has been performing music, dancing, and making art since she was a child. She has a vocal performance degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and extensive graduate vocal work from the University of Southern California. Jenna is multifaceted. She is a multi-instrumentalist who has taught for thirty years. She is mixed-media visual artist who focuses on equality for all life. Jenna teaches ESL at AB Tech, is on the board of the Asheville Area Piano Forum, and both the National & local (VTMLA) Music Teachers Association. She is also a Certified Peer Support Specialist and an ordained minister.
In 2022 she received a Tzedek Social Justice Impact Award for her musical and artistic work engaged in community activism and system change.
In her “spare” time she gardens, studies languages, mindfulness, energy healing, and spends time with her family and animals. She also teaches and performs regularly.
Shirley Gruenhut is an avid chamber music player and New York native who now calls Hendersonville home. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she was the first time recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Award for excellence in musical performance. She studied graduate level piano accompaniment at the Manhattan School of Music. She assisted at the Metropolitan Opera House studios and has performed regularly in New York, as well as Europe and Israel. Shirley is a member of ACMA-Association of Classical Musicians and Artists, Sing For Hope, and ACMP-Association of Chamber Music Players. She is also a professional member of AAPF, the Asheville Area Piano Forum. She was founder of several chamber music ensembles
Topics: Healing