Senior Minister: Rev. Lee J. Milligan
Rev. Lee John Milligan comes to Casas Adobes after eighteen years of ordained ministry, the previous twelve spent at Church of the Painted Hills UCC here in Tucson. He graduated in 1991 from Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts with a Masters of Divinity degree and 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 presently serves as Moderator-Elect for the Southwest Conference.
Other skills he brings to ministry here include playing guitar and art appreciation. He and his wife Teresa Hager enjoy movies and novels together, and Lee does well cooking vegetarian food for them both. At one time their household has included as many as seven cats, but they now live with only one.
