Please join us as Mary Early-Zald is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist Minister on Saturday, September 10, 2022, at 4 PM EDT, in a ceremony at Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The ordination will be celebrated by Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation and First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, and is open to the public. Guests are welcome to attend in person at Beacon at 4 Waldron Avenue in Summit NJ, or to watch the livestream on Facebook (facebook.com/summitbeacon.org) or on YouTube (youtube.com/c/BeaconUU). R.S.V.P. here. Rev. Sara Dendy-Green, UU Minister and Movement Chaplain, will deliver the sermon.

Sara Dendy-Green is a southern, cis/queer/poly, Black femme minister living near Nashville, Tennessee. She imagines liberation/salvation/beloved community as communities that have the ability to eat good food together, experience pleasure in our bodies and regularly put their hands in soil—all the while free from fear and violence by way of all of the cultural and legal changes that must happen in order for this world to exist. She understands herself as part of a legacy of cultural workers, healers, maroons and creoles, southern queer freedom fighters and artists trying to shape god. And she feels so blessed to be doing this work now. She is the UUA Youth and Young Adults Program Manager.

Masks are required. Childcare will be provided on site. Clergy, religious professionals, and seminarians are invited to robe and process.