About Our Minister - The Reverend Mary Tiebout
Greetings and welcome to our fellowship, especially if you are seeking a spiritual home in Sussex County. Though not new to ministry in the Metro New York district of the UUA, I’m new to this fellowship and happy to begin my ministry with longtime members and new friends here, at our historic meeting place in Newton, and in the surrounding community.
My journey to ministry began while working at a counseling service in Vermont, and after graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1987, I found my way to the Unitarian Church of Princeton where I heard Sunday after Sunday of challenging, affirming, soulful sermons and soon became an active member. My internship at the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield was followed by my ordination there in 1993.
In addition to part-time ministry, I have worked in the last decade or so as a graphic artist, writer and editorial assistant on a book, member of a team running a 15, 000- member network of women, and nurse to foals in a neo-natal ICU at an equine hospital in New Jersey. I live with my family in an old schoolhouse in Pennsylvania where I’m active in local efforts to preserve the land and protect wildlife. I believe our democracy depends on its citizens to tend to their ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth and to think deeply and participate actively in matters of peace and justice at home and around the world.
Again, welcome to our Fellowship!
Mary Tiebout
