Do the activities of your life bring you joy? Feed your soul? Or do you do what you think you should do rather than what you what to do? Let’s consider how we might nourish our spirit, embrace life, and glimpse a better way.

Rev. Joan Kahn-Schneider has been a Unitarian Universalist minister since 1980, serving congregations in Michigan, Ohio, Georgia and New York. She was also Director of Ministerial Education at the Unitarian Universalist Association.

In 1998 she became an intentional interim minister and served congregations in Concord, N.H., Hartford, Conn., Knoxville, Tenn. and Spartanburg, S.C.

Her undergraduate degree is in psychology. She has a Master of Divinity degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and Master of Education in Organization and Management from Antioch New England Graduate School.

Prior to ministry, Joan was a therapist in private practice and owned and operated a small neighborhood bookshop. Retired from full time ministry she now consults with congregations, preaches, teaches and does a bit of freelance writing.

She is the mother of four and grandmother of eight, and is a member of the Hendersonville church.

The Thermal Belt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets at 10:30 a.m. on the first and third Sundays of the month. Services are held at 835 N. Trade St. in Tryon.

The fellowship welcomes all regardless of their spiritual path, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Coffee, snacks and fellowship are available after the service.

For more information about the fellowship call 828-513-0570 or follow TBUUF on Facebook.

– article submitted

by Phil Nungesser