Jan Christian

Full name: Rev. Jan Christian

Jan Christian

The Rev. Jan Christian served as Congregational Life Staff for the Pacific Western Region from 2015-1019.

Prior to working for the UUA, Jan served for thirteen years as minister of our congregation in Ventura, California. During that time, she also served for eight years on the Unitarian Universalist Fund for Social Responsibility.

Her previous professional life included decades of work in and around Arizona’s social service and juvenile justice systems and many years teaching public policy and service learning courses at Arizona State University.

She holds a B.S. in American History and a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University and an M.Div. from the Pacific School of Religion.

She makes her home on the central coast of California.

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LeaderLab

Stewardship Transitions for Small Congregations

Jan Christian, Kay Crider

From LeaderLab
How can small congregations become aware of and adopt successful stewardship concepts and practices as they grow?
Embodying Beloved Community and Covenantal Relationship

Jan Christian, Pacific Western Region of the UUA

From LeaderLab
Establishing and maintaining Beloved Community depends on establishing and maintaining covenantal relationships.
Talking About Money as People of Faith

Jan Christian, Kay Crider

From LeaderLab
The power of money in our own lives often goes unexamined. This plays out in our congregations in all sorts of ways.
A Quick Look at Written Congregational Surveys

Jan Christian, Pacific Western Region of the UUA

From LeaderLab
Surveys that work best come out of an understanding that the job of leadership is not to “make people happy” but to help the congregation live out its...
The Myth of the Perfect Match (or the Importance of Being Disappointed)

Jan Christian

From LeaderLab
What sustains a ministry or a marriage or a friendship or a membership in a congregation?

Pacific Western Region

Fires in the Pacific Western Region

Jan Christian

From Pacific Western Region
It’s early in the fire season and already two of our congregations in Colorado have received funds from the UUA Disaster Relief Fund to help members of...
People, Places and Things I Didn’t Know I Loved

Jan Christian

From Pacific Western Region
The title comes from a story from Rob Brezsny who writes the syndicated column "Freewill Astrology." Brezsny told of a man who used to lead him into new...
Generosity in All Things

Jan Christian

From Pacific Western Region
Albert Lovejoy was a member of my Internship Committee in Prescott, Arizona. The committee was talking about some of the personal preferences that people expressed when it came to worship services. He...
Generosity in All Things

Jan Christian

From Pacific Western Region
We Congregational Life Staff speak of “Generosity In All Things” as we do our work because we know that generosity is a core religious value and that...
Giving in Covenant

Jan Christian

From Pacific Western Region
For the majority of our congregations in the Pacific Western Region, paying the requested contributions to the UUA and the District is just assumed....

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