OUR MINISTER

We are pleased to announce that the Board of Directors of Emerson Church Unitarian Universalist has hired Rev. Suzanne Paul to serve as our minister for the coming year.

Rev. Paul has over 20 years of ministerial experience at UU churches in southeast Michigan, most recently with New Hope Unitarian Universalist, which she founded. Prior to founding New Hope, Rev. Paul served as the consulting minister at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation (CUUB) in Brighton Michigan. She was the called minister at the Universalist Unitarian Congregation (UUCF) in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

A graduate of Oakland Community College, Wayne State University and the Humanist Institute in New York City, Rev. Paul also completed a ten-month internship at the Ann Arbor Unitarian Universalist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan under the supervision of the Rev. Dr. Kenneth W. Phifer.

Rev. Paul is the past president of the American Humanist Association and currently serves on the American Humanist Endowment Committee. She is past president of the North American Committee for Humanism (NACH) and served on the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU)

Prior to entering the ministry, Rev. Paul was the administrative assistant to Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of Humanistic Judaism. She is married to Charles Paul and lives in Farmington Michigan. She has three grown children and three grandsons; her greatest joy is spending time with them.