Thursday, February 3, 2011 9:43 am

   The Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is pleased to announce that the congregation has called The Reverend Pat Jobe as their settled minister. The installation and ordination service took place on Sunday, January 30, at 2pm. Speakers at the event will include The Reverend Patricia Hunt, retired chaplain at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA and The Reverend Gary Phillips, a community-based minister from Silk Hope, NC.

   The Reverend Pat Jobe is an 11-year veteran of pastoral ministry, a former journalist and industrial salesman.  He is the author or co-author of four books and has been published by a half-dozen newspapers, including The Charlotte Observer and The Asheville Citizen Times.  He did commentary as a volunteer for WNCW for 17 years in a feature that was known as Radio Free Bubba.

   He is an active supporter of United Ministries and was recognized in the fall of 2010 as the third highest individual fund raiser by the community-based anti-poverty organization that serves the poor through job placement, GED training, other training, a food pantry, direct assistance, a day shelter for the homeless, and other services.  He is also active in Visit Express, an agency that serves the biological parents of foster children.  He is a foster parent.

He participates in the United Way’s Interfaith Roundtable.  

   Reverend Jobe has been a Unitarian Universalist since 2003 and has studied at both Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West and Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago.  He has won six writing awards from the N.C. Press Association, the School Bell Award for writing about education from the N.C. Association of Educators, and the Martin Luther King Award from the City of Charleston for community service.