Greetings. I'm Reverend Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe, and I currently serve as field staff for the Central East Region. I offer blessings to you from my home here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am a short fat white skinned, multi-racial human with buzzcut brown hair, a salt and pepper beard, wire rim glasses, and a purple collared button-down shirt and with a gray Zoom background. I am joining you today to share the announcement that some of you may have heard, that I've been promoted to Regional Lead of the Pacific Western Region effective July 1st. And I'm super excited about this position and to engage in the work with the Pacific Western Region. I'm also sad to be leaving Central East and to be leaving with the con, leaving the congregations and communities that I have supported these last six years and who have supported me and helped me grow into the leader that I am. It has been an amazing time of growth and opportunity and I cannot thank you enough for all of the connection, the meaning making, the feedback and the wisdom and all the many ways that you have modeled what it means to be Unitarian Universalist in our time. It's not always been easy, it really hasn't, but it has always been meaningful. And I even, in the most difficult times, have been grateful to be able to be in this space and do this work with you, our congregations and communities. What I've learned during this time is a lot about what it means to address trauma and to build trauma resilience in communities, particularly as we dealt with a quarantine time which was challenging for all of us. That it's important to resist urgency, to really slow down. That often times when we feel like we have to make a decision right now or something has to happen in this minute, that that's actually a sign of anxiety or a fear and that we need to to slow our roll so that we can be present to what's going on in the wisdom of the moment. And that in doing that, we focus on relationship. That the relationship matters more than any practical decision we may make. And learning how to be an engaged, connected community with the people that we share our spaces with is extraordinarily important. That we learn a lot about boundaries what it means to engage in consent and what it means to hold covenant, to shift away from the punitive way that society teaches us to be in relationship into a more restorative, accountable way of being in relationship. And I want to thank you for all of those opportunities to learn those lessons. I will be learning them for a lifetime. And it's been great to learn them with you. So I offer my gratitude to you and want to share what's coming next. Reverend Megan, who is the Regional Lead for Central East Region has recruited Reverend Elaine Strawn to fill in as primary contact for the churches that I've been serving in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Reverend Elaine comes with many decades of experience in ministry, a great skill for conflict work. She has been a major leader in supporting our Commissioned Lay Ministry program and just is a gift to to the people that she works with. So I am super excited for the folks who will get a chance to work with her in the coming year. She'll be working part-time and temporarily until a new person can be hired to fill the role that I currently hold. And I ask that you be gentle and kind and patient as she learns the position, it is a whole lot to figure out. And just know you're in really good hands. She is just wise and experienced and an expert in listening and focusing on that relationship that I mentioned before. I will be in this position until June 30th, I will continue to support Summer Institute during the second week of July, so I will wrap that up and join them for their August meeting and then that will be my last work with the region, directly of course. I'm not fully gone, so if questions need to happen or things, I'll be available but really focusing on the Pacific Western Region starting July 1st. I offer my blessings to all of you, to our congregations and communities that are doing such important work, that are being innovative and wise, that are doing wild things like shifting away from worship and really maybe just doing social justice work in their communities in relationship or being creative about what it means to be welcoming to families and communities and really focusing on the needs of the people who are coming to our churches now. I offer every blessing on that good work on being resilient in difficult times and on being that center of love that we know the world so desperately needs. I offer my blessings my gratitude. And please cause really good trouble.