JUC Programs

The Pastoral Care Group

• is a co-ministry involving ministers, members, friends and staff working together to coordinate and meet the pastoral care needs of JUC members and friends.
• We inform members about our resources, and encourage them to seek one-to-one emotional support, pastoral counseling, and congregational support services.
• Emergency financial assistance is available.
• JUCeHELPERS is our Yahoo email group of JUC volunteers who receive our appeals for help with rides, household chores, meals, rehab. equipment, etc. Click on the JUCeHELPERS link to join the group.
• Memorial receptions are provided following Memorial Services for our members and their loved ones.
• We support small group ministry by facilitating and supporting the Chalice Circles program.
• We form support groups related to pastoral care needs, such as a Divorce Support Group.
• Our Connectors support our members and friends with phone calls and visits.
• The Pastoral Care Resource Directory lists websites for locating general assistance, food banks, housing, home maintenance, utility assistance, emergency medical assistance, counseling services, transportation, senior resources, and specific health concerns.

Tracy Wilkinson, Minister of Pastoral Care at JUC

Tracey Wilkinson is our new Minister of Pastoral Care at JUC. She holds a MA degree from Union Theological Seminary, where she focused on Psychiatry and Religion. She attended seminary in her early twenties, but did not pursue ordination then. She hadn't yet discovered Unitarian Universalism, and so didn't have a church denomination in which she could consider ordained ministry. Tracey also holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where her emphasis was on Depth Psychology. She spent two years practicing psychotherapy at a community mental health clinic in Maryland, and has spent two years doing chaplaincy at a hospital in Colorado Springs. Having since found a spiritual home in Unitarian Universalism, Tracey has been fulfilling the requirements for ministerial fellowship with the UUA, and is now in the final stage of preparation for ordination.

"As I begin my time at JUC, I'd like to share some thoughts on how we will work together: I love walking in that space between religion and psychology - that heart-space in which we wonder about our lives and the world around us. I will be working with the Pastoral Care Group at JUC, helping support them in the ministry that this remarkably caring group of people does. I am available to talk with if someone in the JUC community is going through a difficult situation. As I become aware of needs in the church I will help create classes or support groups to address those issues. I hope to get to know the people who make up this congregation, as it is through such relationships that I will know how best to be your minister. I look forward to getting to know you."

"My office hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10am-1pm, and by appointment."