Our interim minister for the 2007-2008 church year, the Reverend Lisa Doege, is a nearly life-long Unitarian Univeralist, having grown-up and attended Sunday School at Unity Church Unitarian, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the same congregation that ordained her in 1994. She holds degrees from Hamline University and Harvard Divinity School. She spent the past eleven years serving at the First Unitarian Church of South Bend, Indiana. Prior to that she was a chaplain resident at St. Paul Ramsey and Gillette Children's Hospitals, and a weekend minister at Headwaters Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bemidji, Minnesota. After graduating from college and before attending divinity school, she was Director of Religious Education here at Michael Servetus Unitarian Society for two years.
Lisa writes that she is "excited about this year of interim ministry with MSUS. As a Fridley native, I have a very personal interest in the presence of vital, thriving Unitarian Universalism here. Our message of radical love and freedom of religious thought and spiritual practice is one that is desperately needed in today's world, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to witness and participate in its continued growth in the northern suburbs."
Lisa lives in Fridley with her mother and grandmother. In her spare time she is a weaver, a writer, a reader, a walker and an active aunt to a niece and three nephews. While we are searching for our new settled minister to begin life with us next August, Lisa herself will be searching for full-time ministry opportunities somewhere in Minnesota not too far from her family.
