Grove Park Unitarian Universalist Congregation welcomes the Rev. Mary Catherine Bass as guest minister at the worship service at 4 p.m. today.
Her sermon topic will be “Spring Sales: Abolitionists Needed Here Now — Theological and Humanitarian Implications on the Current Problem of Human Trafficking and the Mandate for Justice.”
Bass is a Bachelor of Arts graduate of Wake Forest University and a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. She holds a master’s in Social Work from UNC and did post-graduate work at Georgetown Family Center, now Bowen Center, affiliated with Georgetown University Medical School.
After 40 years as a clinical social worker/therapist/medical psychotherapist, she continues in private practice, integrative spiritual direction and work as an EAP counselor for Carolina East and Vidant Duplin Hospital.
She coordinated a Kellogg project, Magnolia Partners in Agriculture, for four years with N.C. A&T State University.
Ordained by the Red Hill Universalist Church in Sampson County as a community minister for Integrative Spiritual Direction and Ministry for Earth Inter-Relationships, she later was ordained as an interfaith minister.
She serves on her county’s library board, is a Master Gardener and works with Knitted Prayer Shawl Ministry for victims of human trafficking.
The public is welcome to the church service, at 1000 J.P. Harrison Blvd., Kinston.