Our Interim Pastor
Pastor Robert Palin was the interim Pastor at Faith Church from June 2010 till May 2012.
Background information on Pastor Robert Palin.
The interim search committee of Faith UCC has called Pastor Robert Palin to be our interim minister during this time of transition in ministry. Robert or Pastor Robert, as he likes to be called, is married to Carol S. Palin. The Palins live in Dunedin after re-locating from Long Island to care for Carol’s parents. Their children and grandchildren live in New York. Robert served as settled minister for 11 years at a church in the Town of Riverhead, Long Island, NY. He has also served as interim minister in churches in NJ, MA, NY, PA, and FL. Faith is his 10th interim ministry.
Before re-locating to Dunedin, Carol was a licensed realtor and paralegal. She grew up in Suffolk County, IL. Robert grew up in CT and graduated from Middlebury College (Vermont) with a major in American History; Union Theological Seminary in NYC with an M.Div.; and New York Theological Seminary also NYC, with a D.Min. A hobby Robert enjoys is playing classical piano music and accompanying singers. He likes reading Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, Christian Century, Marcus Borg, Walter Wink, Walter Brueggemann, Gandhi, commentaries on biblical texts (New Interpreter’s Bible in particular), using Google, Wikipedia, media to communicate and learn.
Robert is here to help us all discern our future and move in that direction. As an interim he will not stay for the long haul (as a settled minister does) and this “time between” can be one of the most exciting and transformative in a church’s life. We move forward in faith in the direction of God’s beckoning and promises and blessings already made known and yet to be made known to us.
Background information on Pastor Robert Palin.
The interim search committee of Faith UCC has called Pastor Robert Palin to be our interim minister during this time of transition in ministry. Robert or Pastor Robert, as he likes to be called, is married to Carol S. Palin. The Palins live in Dunedin after re-locating from Long Island to care for Carol’s parents. Their children and grandchildren live in New York. Robert served as settled minister for 11 years at a church in the Town of Riverhead, Long Island, NY. He has also served as interim minister in churches in NJ, MA, NY, PA, and FL. Faith is his 10th interim ministry.
Before re-locating to Dunedin, Carol was a licensed realtor and paralegal. She grew up in Suffolk County, IL. Robert grew up in CT and graduated from Middlebury College (Vermont) with a major in American History; Union Theological Seminary in NYC with an M.Div.; and New York Theological Seminary also NYC, with a D.Min. A hobby Robert enjoys is playing classical piano music and accompanying singers. He likes reading Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, Christian Century, Marcus Borg, Walter Wink, Walter Brueggemann, Gandhi, commentaries on biblical texts (New Interpreter’s Bible in particular), using Google, Wikipedia, media to communicate and learn.
Robert is here to help us all discern our future and move in that direction. As an interim he will not stay for the long haul (as a settled minister does) and this “time between” can be one of the most exciting and transformative in a church’s life. We move forward in faith in the direction of God’s beckoning and promises and blessings already made known and yet to be made known to us.
