Your Board of Directors is proud to announce that the following five members of UUFH have volunteered their time and experience to find the next Settled Minster for UUFH.
This is a diverse group of individuals committed to the search process so when you see them, Thank them!  

Ed Law

I think I have always been a UU, but didn’t know it at the time. I drove by UUFH every day for a few years before my wife Peggy, who is a member, asked me to come with her. I attended for a few years as a friend and then in December of 2017, joined as a member.

Since becoming a member of UUFH I have served on the Finance Committee, twice as a co-chair of the Canvass Committee, Membership Team Co-Chair and
Communication Team Chair. I joined the Board of Directors as the Finance Chairman in 2020-2021, followed by Vice President in 2021-2022 and completed my three years of board service as the Board President for the
2022-2023 fiscal year. While a member of the Board I worked with our
Interim Minister to move UUFH forward and support our FY21/22 Search
Committee.

It’s an honor to be nominated to be a member of the FY23/24 Settled Minister Search Committee. I am very excited to be part of a committee that will find the next Settled Minister for UUFH.

John Owens

Sara and I first attended a UU congregation in the early nineties after reading about the title of an upcoming sermon in the local paper, “What’s Right About Gay Marriage”. We were members of the Grosse Pointe Michigan Unitarian Church for twenty years and were involved in many aspects of the congregation, including finding a settled minister to replace a long-serving minister.  Sound familiar!  We moved to Hendersonville in 2015 and joined UUFH.

Some of you know me as the lead of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in Hendersonville and advocating for gun violence prevention. I have spoken on this issue several times in front of the congregation as well as the UU church in Asheville, and Black Mountain.

My background is in television, video production, and corporate communications. I’m looking forward to helping find a settled minster for UUFH.

 Joe Robustelli

One of the necessities for Becky and me in moving to Hendersonville was that it had a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Once settled in our new home, we immediately became involved in the Fellowship, at first serving on the canvass committee. I was a member of the Nominating committee for years and eventually served as chair. I have been on the Welcoming team and the Security team from its inception. I served on the Membership Committee and was on the Board of Directors for two years. I enjoyed my time as co-chair of the Concert Committee. In the past year I served on the Healthy Congregation team. I am currently serving as co-chair of the Landscape Team.

I spent my entire career in higher education administration serving as Director of Human Resources for three institutions of higher education. I began my personnel career at the University of Tennessee where I earned an MA degree in Industrial Psychology and an EdD in Educational Administration.

UUHF has been a sanctuary for me where I can engage with like-minded members in supporting each other and in serving the greater community. I know the value of having a Fellowship like UUFH in my life and in the importance of having a talented and compassionate minister.
It is an honor to serve on the search committee.

Evette Strickland

While I am new to UUFH (2/13/22), I was first introduced to Unitarianism almost 50 years ago. I have attended Unitarian churches in Knoxville, TN while in college, First Unitarian in Nashville as a young adult, and an old Universalist church in Hopkinsville, KY when Jack & I married, before linking up with a dozen Unitarians and forming the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Clarksville (TN) in 1992. I served as its 2nd president and was tapped to go to Boston for small congregation training. It was so exciting to spend a week at the spiritual center of our faith!  All told, Jack and I spent a dozen years helping to build UUFC into a viable church community and still support them.

When we relocated to East Tennessee from Kuwait, I attended UU Chattanooga, but due to the distance (55 miles each way), I could only attend irregularly. When Jack & I decided to downsize and relocate yet again, having a Unitarian church was priority #1. So here I am!

I am honored to be selected by my peers for this important assignment. I have no managerial skills nor advanced degrees. I am pragmatic and a good team player with a modicum of common sense. If confirmed, I will give the committee and the congregation my best efforts.

Lynn Weisberg

My husband Steve and I moved to Hendersonville from Mexico where we had lived for 12 1/2 years. We had a UU congregation in our city of San Miguel de Allende which many of our friends belonged to but we both had other obligations on Sundays and never attended ourselves. Once here, we decided to attend a service and we both knew immediately that we had found our tribe! Since joining in 2019, I have been on the Welcome team and the Healthy Congregations committee, and most recently became a Worship Assistant. It has been a wonderful few years and I am so happy that we became members of this terrific congregation.

I am truly flattered and humbled to be asked to be on the very important Settled Minister Search Committee and I look forward to working with the other members in the search for a great match for this Fellowship.