Bob Fox, Director of Religious Education
Bob Fox recently has served the congregation in Park Forest, IL as their part-time professional DRE after volunteering in the
RE program there for ten years, mostly as Youth Advisor. He has also served on the district Youth Adult Committee (YAC) for the
past eight years and has served as their liaison to the Central Midwest District board of trustees for the last two years.
It is his belief that religious education is more than just the things that go on in RE classrooms once a week.
He believes that our responsibility as Unitarian Universalists is to provide opportunities for people of all ages
to enrich their lives by acquiring knowledge and participating in planned experience that helps them to grow intellectually
and spiritually.
For our young people, this means opportunities to investigate as many different ways of spiritual believing and
forms of worship as can be effectively presented, including a study of peace, justice, and ethical principals, and
guidance regarding real world issues.
Contact Bob by e-mail at bfox unitytemple.org
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Richard E. Meyer, Coordinator of Lay Ministries
Rich Meyer has been a member since 1984, when he joined Beacon Unitarian Church. He ran the Canvass in both 1997 and 1998;
has run auctions, the Monet Bed & Breakfast event, Victorian dinners, and more. You might have seen him at work on the
Membership Committee or the Building and Grounds Committee. During his Beacon years he served on the Board of Trustees,
the Long Range Planning Task Force, the Sunday Guilders and Sunday Service committees, and worked with special events,
public relations, canvass, and membership, among other things.
He also happens to be a family therapist, human relations consultant, contractor, and appliance repairman.
He studied at Texas Lutheran University, California American University, University Associates, and the Center for
Family Studies at Northwestern University.
Moreover, he has seen a natural association between his abiding interest in people and their possibilities--
as well as the possibilities for human community-- and the Congregation's vision of itself as a place where
people can discover and unfold their own human capacities, where UTUUC's life and mission might be running on
the power of its people's energies, commitment, and capabilities, and where participation in the Congregation's
life is made more fulfilling and less frustrating.
Contact Rich by e-mail at rmeyerunitytemple.org
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