Our Ministers
Rev. Deborah Cayer, Lead Minister
Deborah Cayer is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Divinity School. She was ordained in 1996 and served as minister for the Unitarian Church of Sharon, Massachusetts for twelve years. She has served the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship since August 2008, first as a part-time Consulting Assistant Minister, then as Acting Lead Minister for two years.
Rev. Jacqueline Brett, Minister of Congregational Engagement
Jacqueline Brett has been with ERUUF since 2012, first as member of the administrative staff then as student minister. In 2017 she received her M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School where she was a member of the Board of Trustees, and recipient of the Charles Billings Prize in Preaching and the Faculty Prize for Religious Leadership. Rev. Brett was ordained by the members of ERUUF in Novermber 2017.
Read more: Rev. Jacqueline Brett, Minister of Congregational Engagement
Rev. Stacy Grove, Consulting Pastoral Care Minister
Stacy Grove is a Jewish Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Director with a background in pastoral care, hospice care, chaplaincy, and Red Cross disaster spiritual care. Her role providing pastoral care for the ERUUF community is part-time and involves working closely with the Pastoral Care Associates and the Care Ministries Team.
Rev. Dr. Arvid Straube, Minister Emeritus
Rev. Dr. Arvid Straube is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School and Meadville Lombard Theological School. He served as Lead Minister at ERUUF for 21 years from 1983 to 2004 and then as Lead Minister at First UU Church of San Diego until his retirement in 2014. Since retirement, he has devoted himself to teaching and to a ministry of spiritual direction. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Duke Divinity School and Starr King School for the Ministry. ERUUF voted to call Dr. Straube as its Minister Emeritus in 2014.