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  Rev. Deanna Vandiver

  Bridge Minister
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Team Members



Rev. Deanna Vandiver

Bridge Minister

Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/her/they) will serve on contract part-time to conduct about eight Sunday services, support our pastoral team, and staff through the end of the calendar year.  She will join us in the pews for the Sept. 15 Ingathering service!

Rev. Deanna comes highly recommended by Rev. Christopher, Rev. Tandi Rogers of the UUA’s Pacific Western Region, and Rev. Nancy Bowen, adviser to our recent Ministerial Search Team. Members of our Westside staff, worship and pastoral teams, TWG and Board have also interviewed Rev. Deanna.

Ordained in 2012 by the three member-congregations of the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists (GNOUU) cluster, Rev. Deanna served as a Community Minister for that religious collective and as Co-Director of the Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (www.celsjr.org). She serves on the Committee for Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Multiculturalism of the UU Ministers Association. Rev. Deanna has made a “family-inspired” move to the Puget Sound region in June of 2018 and currently resides on Bainbridge Island.

We are full of gratitude for the opportunity to work in fellowship with Rev. Deanna while we await Rev. Christopher’s R1 Visa completion.

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  Rev. Christopher Wulff

  Minister
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Rev. Christopher Wulff

Minister

Greetings and salutations!

I’m Rev. Christopher Wulff, Minister of the Westside UU Congregation. I was called to serve by a vote of the congregation in May of 2019, and after travails with work visas, birth certificates, and border crossings during a pandemic, finally started serving the congregation in July of 2020, and arrived in Seattle that September with my family.

You can reach me by email at minister@wsuu.org or by text/voice at 206-705-3010.

A little about me

• My family includes my wife, Ariel, and our two little guys, five-year-old Rowan and nine-month old Benjamin. Ariel and I are celebrating our five-year wedding anniversary this spring (2021) as well as ten years as partners in the fall.
• I grew up splitting my time between downtown Toronto, and a communal living group in the Ottawa Valley, which provided a wealth of exposure to different communities (Toronto being the most ethnically diverse city in the world) and an environment that was very nurturing of both independence and interdependence.

I want to acknowledge that I grew up on the traditional lands of the Anishnaabe Mississauga, the Haudenosaunee, Ojibway/Chippewa, and Huron-Wendat peoples.  This territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, and is also covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. As a person of settler heritage, I strive to help heal the wounds of our past and our present, in the essential and ongoing work of reconciliation.