Our Minister
Interim Minister, Reverend Cynthia Prescott 
Reverend Prescott will begin her service to Neshoba in August.
Reverend Prescott has served the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Clemson, SC (UUFC) for the past 12 years. She was called to UUFC as their first minister after years of being a lay-led group. During her ministry they have become a Welcoming Congregation and also received Green Sanctuary Accreditation from the UUA. She now seeks opportunity to grow and expand her experience in ministry. In her words, she is in search of “a mission-minded, outwardl-ooking congregation that wants to grow not only in numbers but also in spirit”. Sounds like a good fit with Neshoba.
A personal glimpse into Rev. Prescott’s life reveals a life long UU with a passion for theatre, music, local history and culture. She states she is “that favorite target of Garrison Keillor, an English Major”. After many years in a career intertwining retail, visual & graphic design, printing and publications she entered Starr King School for the Ministry, receiving her M. Div in 1997.
Rev. Prescott is an only child with an elderly father and extended family in Maine. Though born in Maine she is a self-proclaimed Southerner and plans to live out her days in the southeast. She will maintain a home in SC while moving here to Memphis with her long time animal companion Isabel, a nine year -old tuxedo cat with “no tail to speak of”. Eating as locally and regionally as possible, along with love of community gardening, rate high on her food related passions. She hopes to study Memphis barbecue… and we are sure a few of you will help out in that effort.
Finally, to summarize her theology we will include a section from her ministerial record:
Theological orientation: What is your dominant theology, and how do you deal with other Unitarian
Universalist theologies with which you may not be in sympathy?
I once heard a colleague describe himself as “a [religious] humanist who is soft on God”. Me too. In academic theological language, I’m a panentheist: God is in us, and we are in God. Put another way, “God is a verb”. I’m a third-generation UU, origin on the Universalist side. Unitarian Universalism is foundational to my religious and spiritual identity as a whole. I have yet to meet a theology common in our faith tradition with which I cannot find a measure of sympathy. In preaching and teaching I draw most often on imagery and stories from Judaism, Buddhism, UU history, and earth-centered religious thought.
Additional information: Finish introducing yourself in any way you would like to.
I have a good singing voice, but I can’t read music.
Cynthia… you will be most welcome among us. Most of us can’t read music either!
