Jeff Barton
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Jeff Barton - Interim Senior Pastor
Biography:
Jeff Barton has been in United Church of Christ programs and congregations since 1979 when he was a seminary intern at Parkview Congregational UCC in Aurora, Colorado. He has been a pastor, a campus minister, an associate pastor, a senior minister and a UCC conference association minister. Jeff has served the UCC in Idaho, New Hampshire and Montana for longer calls and in Wyoming, Wisconsin and Oregon for shorter terms and interims. He has served as an interim minister in four settings and is looking to continue to do intentional interim work for the extension of his active ministry career.Jeff has been with Casas Adobes UCC since February of 2009. He is a native of Minneapolis, and has academic degrees from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He now permanently resides among the mountains, rivers and people of the Portland, Oregon area, where he enjoys skiing in the winter and river rafting in the summer. He's a 21 handicap in golf and prefers jazz and blues in his musical tastes. Jeff and the congregation expect to be in shared service until the call of the next Senior Pastor; in mid 2010 or so. Jeff has two young adult children. Jed lives and writes in Billings, Montana. Katie has begin her graduate studies in medical school in Portland, Oregon. Jeff has a significant other, Rev. Mary Sue Evers, a UCC pastor in the Portland area. Email: jeff@casasadobesucc.org