Our Minister
Rev. Dr. Maureen Killoran joined our Fellowship in
mid-August 2008 as our Interim Minister, while we take the time we need to call a new settled minister.
With 23 years experience as a Unitarian Universalist minister, Rev. Maureen holds a master’s degree in
family and organizational sociology, one in divinity, and a doctorate in church organizational systems.
Rev. Maureen is an Accredited Interim
Minister with the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Learn more about interim ministry at UUFVB here.
A UU for 40 years, Rev. Maureen has been an active member or on
the staff of congregations in six US states and five Canadian provinces. She has worked
with congregations ranging in size from 35
to 700 members, and staffs from 3 to 13, serving as interim minister in Devon, PA and suburban
Atlanta, and as parish minister in Salem, Oregon, Asheville, NC (for 11 years) and Tryon,
NC. She has preached with over 70 congregations in the US, Canada, Australia and Romania.
Rev. Maureen served for three years in the community ministry of Transition Coaching, helping
organizations and individuals use their strengths to achieve positive change. Her training in
conflict management, positive psychology, church systems and appreciative inquiry turned out
to be very helpful – as it does in interim ministry.
With her husband, life-long UU Peter Hyatt, Rev. Maureen enjoys the challenge of interim
ministry, with the discipline it demands that they “travel lightly” due to regular
moves The Killoran-Hyatt family includes Wicki, an 10-year-old Boston Terrier, and Dudney, a cat
of 18 years, both of whom seem to adjust easily to the demands of frequent relocation. Peter is
retired, and, when he’s not singing in the choir or engaging in the myriad tasks of a
minister’s spouse, he dedicates himself to writing. Rev. Maureen takes art classes at
the museum and is an active volunteer with the Friends of the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Rev.
Maureen and Peter attended “clown camp” in 2009, and now Bippi and Poohbah are
occasional visitors at UUFVB.
Contact Rev. Maureen at (772) 778-7850, or e-mail:
minister@uufvb.org.
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