Senior Minister: Rev. Lee J. Milligan
Rev. Lee John Milligan came to Casas Adobes in August of 2010 after serving the Church of the Painted Hills UCC here in Tucson for the previous twelve-and-a-half years. He graduated in 1991 from Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts with a Masters of Divinity degree and was ordained by the Metropolitan Boston Association of the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC in October of that year. He then spent his first six years in ministry as pastor of the Arlington Community UCC in Arlington, NE.
Pastor Lee received training in spiritual direction at Phoenix's Kino Institute of Theology's
Art of Spiritual Direction: An Ecumenical Program
and at the
Hesychia School for Spiritual Direction
at the Redemptorist Renewal Center here in Tucson. He also has been trained in group spiritual direction as a participant in the
Called Back to the Well
program for clergy renewal of the Samaritan Counseling Center in Albuquerque, NM. In a different field, he has completed the
Certificate Course in Non-Profit Management
at Creighton University in Omaha, NE, and
Survival School: Church Leadership Training
out of Phoenix.
Pastor Lee has always been active in the UCC beyond the parish, serving on the Committee on Church and ministry for the Omaha Association and the Southwest Conference of the UCC and as both Vice-President and President of the Omaha Association. He served as Moderator-Elect and then Moderator for the Southwest Conference from 2010 to 2012.
He has been playing guitar since he was fourteen and readily admits he should play much better than he does. Both he and his wife Teresa are avid readers and movie-goers, and are definitely cat persons.
