Rev. Walter Braman is now serving as our interim minister for a two year period starting 1 September 2007. This will be a transition period during which we will be searching for a called minister.
The Unitarian Universalist Association wisely provides a special ministerial service to churches such as ours who are in a difficult time of change. Rev. Braman is one of such ministers trained and experienced in facilitating communication, mediation of differences and establishing of fresh goals. He is an Accredited Interim Minister.
Rev. Braman first served as the settled minister in two churches for a total of 13 years. Following that, Walter served in a interim minister capacity in six, East-coast UU churches in the last nine years. In the later capacities he has been found to be a caring person, an inspiring spiritual leader and having that needed quality - a good sense of humor. Walter is married to ordained minister Rev. Cathie Fisher Braman. They have three adult children - Amie, Fran and Ben. Rev. Braman had the thrill of marrying Amie to son in law Eric.
Walter enjoys reading - primarily biography, history and poetry. He likes to cook "usually things I have no business eating" and enjoys photographing nature.

Our recent Director of Religious Education, Ms. Patricia Infante, has now moved to the position of Director of Growth and Extension for the Joseph Priestley District within the Unitarian Universalist Association. During Pat's nine year tenure with us and, indeed. for the entire 50 plus year existence of this UUCCH, a vital Religious Education program has been one of our highest priorities.

We are now continuing that emphasis by hiring church member Ms Cynthia Rivas as our Interim Director of Religious Education, and have assembled a search committee to find a permanent successor to Pat.

Ms Rivas has been a member of UUCCH for over 20 years and has been a long-time religious education teacher. She graduated at St. Joe's College with a Business Management degree, was a corporate travel agent for many years and then got a master's degree in education at Fairleigh Dickinson. She has two children and is active in the Boy Scouts of America and the Cherokee High School marching band. Cyndi will be with us as Director of Religious Education un till the end of our current church year.

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Kenneth Ewan is a graduate of Combs College of Philadelphia, PA. with a Bachelor of Music in Education and has completed his graduate studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ in education and choral conducting. Mr. Ewan's choral teachers have included Dr. Howard Haines, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Dr. Andrew Megill, Dr. James Jordan and Allen Crowell. Further studies in choral pedagogy were done with Elaine Brown and Frauke Hassemann. Ken is a long-time conductor of church, school and community choruses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has recently run the choral programs at Camden County and Cumberland County Colleges as well as teaching music appreciation, theory, sight-singing and ear training. Mr. Ewan has worked with many local area choral groups.

Mr. Ewan is co-chair, and choir director of the worship committee for the JPD Wilmington/Philadelphia Growth project and district liaison for the JPD. He has organized and conducted two other church handbell choirs in addition to the current group at UUCCH.

Ken is a member of The American Choral Directors Association, MENC and the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. He is also a two-time winner (2003, 2006) of the Who's Who Among American Teachers award.