LAY CHAPLAINS

While larger congregations have professional ministers, who have received intensive professional education, smaller church congregations do not have the resources to hire professional ministers, and thus depend on lay leadership. The Unitarian Congregation of Niagara is such a congregation The pulpit is offered to a diversity of individuals on Sundays, some professional ministers from our own or other denominations, but mostly, lay expert speakers on a variety of topics that are deemed to be of relevance to the congregation.

Rites of passage, such as child dedications, marriages, celebrations of life and memorial services, are condcuted by trained lay chaplains who are licensed by the Province of Ontario for the performance of marriage ceremonies.

The Unitarian Congregation of Niagara has three lay chaplains: Ed Gilbert, Valerie Jaeger and Julianne Momirov. They can be contacted by email at UCNlaychaplains@gmail.com or you can leave a message on the church telephone, (905) 687-8433

Marriage Ceremony

Fig 1 Marriage§

Child Dedication Ceremony

	Fig 1 Dedication §
	Fig 2 Naming with a rose §
	Fig 3 Dipping rose in water, the universal symbol of life §