Our Minister
In January 2026 Rev. Evan Young became our half-time Minister. We knew him from his stint as intern here some years ago. Details on his background in his own words:
I’ve been FUUSM’s minister since January 1, 2026, but I did some other things before this. I served as a campus minister for fifteen years, at United Campus Ministry at Ohio University. For some of that time I was also the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens (Ohio). I moved to Ohio with my family in 1999, so that I could go to seminary (I graduated with an M.Div. from Methodist Theological School in Ohio in 2006). Before Ohio we were in southern Mississippi for four years; while we were there my partner and I helped to found the Hattiesburg Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Other things I’ve done along the way: I was the liaison to new congregations for the Extension Committee in the Mid-South District of the UUA, and the Young Adult and Campus Ministry Consultant for the Ohio-Meadville District of the UUA. I also served for several years as the president of the National Campus Ministry Association. My partner and I raised our three children in an intentional community here in southeastern Ohio, and we still live in that community (although the kids are now grown and out on their own), and at various times when I haven’t been in ministry I’ve worked as a freelance copyeditor. In my copious spare time I like to garden, golf, go out to dinner with my sweetie, and watch quirky, off-beat movies. And, most of the time, I don’t feel quite as old as I am.