 As a member of her church since 1996, a member of our Board of Trustees for four years and current President of the board, I have witnessed firsthand Laurel’s amazing skills as a minister and administrator for 12 years. I firmly believe Laurel can do wonderful things for our faith and our world as President of the UUA.
David Norton
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Laurel has Vision with a capital “V.” She’s a builder, a leader with passion who listens to people and inspires all to greater good. The perfect leader for our incredible path.
Rev. Lyn Oglesby
GA-2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
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Laurel brings a unique combination of expressive spirituality along with effective change management and administrative ability that is a hard combination to be found in a compassionate minister.
Mary Overton
GA-2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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.jpg) We live in a time when building connections is the most important spiritual work we can do. Laurel Hallman is the Unitarian Universalist leader to help us do just that, in our association, in our congregations, in our professional organizations, and in the deepest parts of ourselves.
Laurel has repeatedly demonstrated her vision, character, skill and talent by her great success in the Dallas congregation. Her commitment is strong. Her candidacy solid. I hope you'll join me in supporting her.
Rev. Roger Peltier
UU Church of Sarasota Inc
Sarasota FL |
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I am  impressed with Laurel's integrity and generosity of spirit. Our leaders need to have depth and grounding, especially in a society so easily swayed by surface impressions. Laurel articulates a vision of service that is supported and enriched by theological understanding. To be sustainable, our work must be grounded in an awareness of our interconnected web -- our relation to spirit no matter how we define it. Her work at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas has exemplified this vision and it is what we need to guide Unitarian Universalism in the coming years.
Pam Rumancik, student
Meadville-Lombard School of Theology
Chicago, IL |
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She is well qualified! Laurel will help us reach “spiritual maturity.” This will help us spread the UU message! This is our time of change.
Barbara Silvera
GA-2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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 Laurel has walked the walk. She is deeply spiritual; thoughtful decisive; inspiring. She has vision and knows how to “ask” and get the most from whom she asks. We could not do better!
James Snell
GA-2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
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 Laurel Hallman is a visionary leader with one foot firmly in the present and the other stepping boldly into the future. She understands both our Association and congregational life. And she has a clear vision of how both can be more powerful and effective.
Arvid Straube
Lead Minister, First UU Church of San Diego |
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Rev. Susan Suchocki Brown |
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 I am delighted to write in support of the candidacy of Rev. Laurel Hallman. She has the leadership skills, the vision and the enthusiasm and experience to be the next president of the UUA. I served on the UUA Board of Trustees during the presidency of Gene Pickett, Bill Schulz, and was chair of the Journey Toward Wholeness Transformation Committee during the presidency of John Buehrens and for over three years into the presidency of William Sinkford.
Because of my institutional history and connections, I have a sense of what skills and qualities are needed for someone to have to be a superb UUA president and Laurel Hallman is this person. I also have been a Parish minister for over 16 years and am currently the President of the UU Trauma Response Ministry, and a member of the UUMA Committee on Ministry for Antiracism, antioppression, multiculturalism.
I look forward to working with Rev. Hallman in the various ways our paths of service to our Unitarian Universalist Association intersect.
Rev. Susan Suchocki Brown
First Church Unitarian Universalist
Leominster MA
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 Laurel Hallman is just the right person at this time to serve both as a prophetic public voice for Unitarian Universalism, and to lead the institutional advancement of our association of congregations.
My experiences of Laurel Hallman and her effects on our UU movement have been life lessons on vital qualities of religious and institutional leadership. Rev. Hallman has built a leadership institution in every respect at First Unitarian of Dallas. In its Dallas community, in our North Texas UU cluster, our Southwest District and our UUA, First Dallas continually steps forward to lead, mentor and partner to further the mission of our faith. In her bones Laurel seems to get it that a central responsibility of leadership is to cultivate, inspire and send forth new leaders. First Dallas lay leaders I’ve had the privilege to work with display spiritual grounding, focus on a larger vision, and generosity with their personal gifts – and all are feature qualities of Rev. Laurel Hallman.
I couldn’t be more certain in my endorsement of the Rev. Laurel Hallman to be the next president of our UUA.
Joe Sullivan
Immediate Past President of the Southwest District
May 2008
 Laurel is the absolute right person to lead our UU movement at this time. Her institutional expertise and thoughtful religious leadership have been a great inspiration.
Joe Sullivan
GA-2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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