Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees of Unity Church-Unitarian represents the congregation in shaping the vision and long-term goals of the church. We ensure the church is externally effective and internally efficient, and we create policy and direction for the executive team and church staff.

For matters concerning church policy, long-term vision, and goals, contact the board by email to [email protected]. We want to hear from you! For concerns or ideas on matters related to church programming, contact the Executive Team.

The board of trustees meets in the Anderson Library each month. Currently, the board meets monthly on the second Saturday, from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., for the full calendar year. Minutes of each board meeting are posted below.

Annual meetings of the congregation are held in December.

Annual Meeting of the Congregation

Sunday, December 7 | 1:00 p.m. | Sanctuary and Zoom
Unity Church will hold its Annual Meeting of the Congregation on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. Please plan to participate either in-person in the Sanctuary or online via Zoom -- registration is required to participate online. This year's meeting will include the election of new trustees and a vote to approve the 2026 budget. All are welcome to attend the meeting. Only voting members can vote! If you have questions about your membership status, please contact Laura Park at [email protected].

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Board of Trustees Nominees

Taylor Burr
In 2000, my partner Suzanne and I came to Unity Church seeking a spiritual home for ourselves and our young child. What we found was far more than a community — we discovered a place that would shape our family’s journey, ground our values, and deepen our connection to the world around us. From singing in the early Unity Singers to mentoring and facilitating Coming of Age, my involvement at Unity Church has grown in step with my own spiritual growth. I’ve witnessed firsthand the power of belonging to a multigenerational, justice-rooted, diverse, and joy-filled congregation — and feel immense gratitude that our now three children grew up within such a transformative space.

I stepped up to serve as a trustee because the church has given so much to me and our family, and I want to help ensure its future reflects the imagination, compassion, and strength of our shared values. I’m energized by the continued work of turning our end statements into action — helping our community live fully into its commitments to equity, belonging, and spiritual growth. I believe in collaboration, creativity, and the sacred work of showing up for one another and our wider world. It would be an honor to serve the congregation at this moment in our shared journey — and I’m excited to imagine, build, and sustain the future of our beloved community together.

Sarah Ford
I've been re-invigorated of late in my membership at Unity Church, and I am at a point in my life wherein I have both the energy and time necessary to focus on serving this beloved community. At this awful moment in human history, I am energized by our new ends statements, those that center love in our commitment to one another and in our community outreach, activism, and partnerships. Like all of us, I am struggling to position myself effectively, appropriately, and intentionally, that I might be of use in our collective resistance to overwhelming terror and human suffering. My professional work has been centered in education policy, union work, and teaching. My direct activism work right now is focused on the resistance movement as it relates to our immigrant brothers and sisters.

I have been a member of this church off and on since my teenage years. Recently, I helped plan a Unity Church gender retreat, helped bake a lot of pies to support LGBTQ proms, and engaged in more transformative conversations than I can count. I've just finished a term of three years as a worship associate, working in that span with three different senior ministers, our incredible staff, and some really talented and engaging lay leaders.

Kat Sherman
I have been a member of Unity Church since 2013, after a short search for a church home that ended when my family attended our first Arthur Foote Music Sunday. Surrounded and uplifted by the music, my spouse Fritz and I knew we had found our spiritual home — and, with the help of our daughter, drew more family into the fold. I have been participating in the religious education program as a middle school teacher for over ten years, and I sing in the Women’s Ensemble. More recently I served as a mentor in the Coming of Age program, had the honor of being part of the most recent Ministerial Search Team and I am a current teaching associate. The whole family is now deeply, joyfully entangled in Unity’s community.

I'm grateful for the spiritual enrichment — and challenge — found here and am excited to bring those experiences of Unity’s complex, diverse community to board work. I work in public policy professionally, and outside of work I enjoy exploring the outdoors at all levels from city parks to National ones, hiking, knitting, reading, cooking, friends and family. My family and I live in St. Paul along with our two dearly beloved — and extremely spoiled — cats.

Ends Statements

We the people of Unity Church-Unitarian, grounded in a joyous vision of beloved community, within, among, and beyond ourselves,

understand the interconnected roots of oppression and yoke ourselves to the demands, sacrifices, and hard work of antiracism, multiculturalism, and climate and economic justice;
cultivate a multigenerational community of joy, care, and belonging, and evangelize love to meet the deep and abiding hunger in all of us;
practice lifelong faith formation, grounded in Unitarian Universalist theology, that breaks us open and allows us to be transformed.

Meet Unity's Trustees

Governing Documents

Charge to the Congregation
Draft Congregational Covenant

Monthly Meetings

Board Minutes 2025
September 2025
August 2025
July 2025
June 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025

Board Minutes & Documents 2024
November 2024
September 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
Special Meeting May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024

Fiscal Year 2024 Revenue & Expense Statement YTD through Qtr3