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Jerald Stinson

A magna cum laude graduate of both Occidental College and the Divinity School at Harvard University, Rev. Jerry Stinson has been a minister in the United Church of Christ for over forty-one years. He recently retired after serving for twelve years as the Senior Minister at the First Congregational Church of Long Beach. He previously served congregations in Carlsbad, California and Eastern Washington as well as serving as a missionary in southern Africa.

Rev. Stinson is on the Board of Directors of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace and is an adjunct staff member of Progressive Christianity.Org. He is an Associate Fellow of the Westar Institute for Religious Literacy. Passionate about religious pluralism, he is a member of the Christian Muslim Consultative Group of Southern California, on the Advisory Board of Jewsonfirst.org and was a founding member of the Long Beach Jewish-Christian-Muslim Leadership Forum. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the South Coast Interfaith Council and was president of the Long Beach Religious Leaders Association. He received the Interfaith Unity Award from the South Coast Interfaith Council, the Interfaith Courage Award from the California Council of American Islamic Relations, the Muslim Peace Award from the Southern California Islamic Center, the Ansaari Award from Masjid Al-Shareef of Long Beach and an appreciation award from the Long Beach Islamic Center.

He is active with South Bay Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and is a recipient of the 2013 Giants of Justice award from CLUE. He is part of the Los Angeles County Coalition for Death Penalty Alternatives. He is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California American Civil Liberties Union and chairs the advisory board of the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition.

He served previously on the Board of Directors of Progressive Christians Uniting and Better World Art-ists and Activists Guild. He was on the National Advisory Board of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. He was a member of the Southern California-Nevada UCC Conference Task Force on Immigration, the Clergy Advisory Committee of California Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the Los Angeles Interfaith Leadership Council to End Homelessness. He also served on the Steering Committee of the Long Beach Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness.

Rev. Stinson has been a member of three recent peace and justice delegations to Palestine and Israel. He was also part of a church delegation to Mexico that studied the economic impact of NAFTA and American immigration policies.

For his denomination nationally, Rev. Stinson served as a member of the directorate of the Office for Church In Society and as chair of the Board of Directors of the United Church Board for World Minis-tries. He served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California UCC Conference and chaired its Social Concerns Commission. He was a featured preacher at a UCC National General Synod and at the Installation of the Southern California Conference Minister.

Rev. Stinson received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Long Beach NAACP and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award given jointly by the City of Oceanside and the Oceanside branch of the NAACP in recognition of his involvement in the struggle for civil rights. He was also the first United Church of Christ minister to receive the Disciple of the Year Award given by the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in recognition of his commitment to social justice, peace and freedom for all.

Rev. Stinson is married to Kay Gault who is a teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in Long Beach. They have three children and five grandchildren.

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