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APPOINTMENT OF A GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Nov 2006

The General Assembly's Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Reverend Stephen Wilkins Dick has been appointed as Chief Executive.

Steve will commence work for the General Assembly on 01 March 2007 for an induction programme. Steve will take on the full responsibilities of Chief Executive from the present General Secretary, Jeff Teagle, at a hand-over ceremony on the last morning of the Annual Meetings, on 13 April 2007.

Steve is currently the District Minister and Secretary of the London & District Provincial Assembly of Unitarian & Free Christian Churches (LDPA). Previously he had been minister at Croydon (1985-1996) and the Executive Director for the European Unitarian Universalists (1982-1989).

Born and brought up in the USA, Steve first graduated from Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland and then studied at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Later, he attended the University of Alabama, following service with the US Army. His Unitarian Ministry training was undertaken at Manchester College, Oxford (1983-1985). Whilst serving with the US Army in Germany he met and married Jenneke Schol, who was working as a history teacher in Holland. Today, Jenneke is a senior consultant with an international recruitment agency dealing with IT staffing. Their daughter, Esther, is in her final year of English and American Literature studies at Keele.

Since graduating as a minister, Steve has undertaken continuing professional education at Goldsmiths College, the Open University and the South Bank University. As a result he holds qualifications in interpersonal skills, fundraising, marketing and charity management. These have enabled him to gain full membership in the Institute of Fundraising and the Association of Chief Executives in Voluntary Organisations. For several years Steve was the membership secretary for MODEM (Management & Organisational Disciplines for the Enhancement of Ministry).

Steve has been very busy within the wider Unitarian movement and has served the Development Commission (1985-1989), GA Council (1991-1997 & 1998-2006), Ministry Committee (1991-1997), the Ministerial Fellowship (as Secretary 1993-1996), the Sustentation Fund (1997-present), Executive Committee (1995-1997 & 2002-2003), the Administration Commission (2003-2006), Essex Hall Trust EC (2003-present), The Inquirer Publishing Company (2001-present) (Chair 2005-present, a facilitator of District Connections (2004-2006), the Triennial Review Working Party (2000-2002), the Task Force on Leadership and Governance (2002-2004), Constitutional Working Party (2004-present), Chair, Hackney Trust (2004 to present), Chair, Stamford Street Trust (2004 to present), Ministerial Fellowship Observer to the Ministerial Pension Fund (2005 to present) and an Elected Member of GA Executive Committee (2006 to present).

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