There was so much I hadn’t yet learned about life and ministry and America before I arrived in Charleston in February 2014.  West Virginia, and great people of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charleston, helped me get a lot smarter – and I’ve tried to apply those lessons ever since.   Come by to join in some reflections about our time together, and muse with me about the future.

Rev. Patricia Hart has been an active Unitarian Universalist for more than 35 years – as a lay leader, a consultant to congregations around the country, and since 1997 as a minister.  She has served ten congregations as a (mostly transitional) minister in New England, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio – two of those as Co-Minister with her spouse, the Rev. Peter Newport.  Since 2019, Tricia has lived in Vermont, serving churches in Burlington and Middlebury.  Real retirement could happen at some point…