The members of the Maumee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Bowling Green have called Rev.
Lynn Kerr to be their resident minister. She will lead her first service at 11 a.m. this Sunday.
Most recently, Kerr was minister of lifespan faith development at First Unitarian Church in Toledo, where
she began in 2003. She continues as consulting minister to the First Universalist Church in Lyons.
The church’s new minister received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Minnesota and
her Master of Divinity from the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif. She was ordained
in 1998.
Previous professional assignments included serving as youth and young adult minister at First Parish in
Concord, Mass., and director of donor relations in the Development Department of the Unitarian
Universalist Association in Boston.
Her many volunteer positions have ranged from being executive director of the Dana McLean Greeley
Foundation for Peace and Justice in Concord, to being lead tutor for men’s basketball at the University
of Minnesota.
Kerr is married and the mother of a son. She lives in Whitehouse.
The Maumee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation, located at 20189 North Dixie Highway, Bowling
Green, was chartered in 1983 and built its present home near Bowling Green in 1997. It serves members
throughout Wood and Lucas Counties, as well as southeast Michigan.
Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed, but are committed to spiritual growth through a "free
and responsible search for truth and meaning." Diversity of belief and tolerance are its hallmarks.