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The Rev. Laura
Everett
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Massachusetts
Council of Churches
Elects New Executive Director
On Thursday afternoon, September 22, after several months of
searching, praying and deliberating the Executive Director Search
Committee presented its nominee, the Rev. Laura Everett, to become
the next Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of
Churches.
The Board of Directors received the nomination and after a
period of prayer discernment and discussion affirmed the Search
Committee and elected Laura to become the next Executive Director.
This will become effective November1 upon the retirement of the
Rev. Jack Johnson. Please keep Jack, Laura, and the Council in
your prayers during this time of transition.
Laura Everett currently serves as the Associate Director of
the Council. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Harvard
Divinity School and an ordained minister of the United Church of
Christ. She recently completed the
Foundations of Christian Leadership Program at Duke University
Divinity School. Laura is an avid bicyclist and an active
member of Hope Central Church UCC/DOC. She may be contacted at
laura@masscouncilofchurches.org.
The following is the Nomination Statement from the Search
Committee:
With thanksgiving to God, the Search Committee
nominates the Rev. Laura Everett to serve as the next executive
director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches (MCC).
Mentored in the ministries of the MCC, Laura
knows us well, has built strong relationships in this community
and with our ecumenical and interfaith partners, and has many
gifts to lead the MCC in the opportunities and challenges of the
years ahead.
Laura is a person of deep Christian faith and
commitment. She is theologically articulate. She is relational
in her work with others. For several years, Laura has been
immersed in the ministries and relationships of the ecumenical
community in Massachusetts and elsewhere, and is well experienced
and skillful in advocacy and justice ministries.
Laura is thoughtful about the changes that we are
experiencing throughout the culture and the church and she has
important perspectives and considerable energy for the life and
work of the MCC in approaching the effects of these changes.
The Search Committee celebrates the high quality
of the persons who applied for this position [and the challenges
that this circumstance presented to the Search Committee] as signs
of the continued strength of the Christian conciliar movement, the
high regard with which the MCC is held across the church, and the
increasing interest in emerging new forms for our ecumenical
ministries.
In this moment when we embark on a new era of
leadership, we invite members of the MCC Board of Directors,
member denominations, and all our ecumenical partners to be
recommitted to the vision of visible unity in Christ and renewed
in offering our best gifts with Laura and our staff in this work
to which God calls us all.
Joel Anderle
Ted Asta
Gayle Harris
James McPhee
David Michael
Demetrios Tonias
Executive Director Search Committee
September 2011 |