Union’s Search and Call Committee recommended Rev. Alan Cloar to the Church Council as Union’s Interim Minister at a recent called meeting, and the Church Council unanimously approved the recommendation. Rev. Cloar is in the process of closing an interim ministry in Atlanta. He is available to us now if there is a pastoral emergency. We are working with him to develop a plan to integrate him into our Union family in advance of his first Sunday in the pulpit in early November.
Rev. Alan Cloar is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Alan grew up on a family farm in Paris, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1992, and Candler School of Theology in Atlanta in 1999. He has served congregations in Associate, Solo, and Senior Minister roles. Alan has also served as a Campus Minister. He most recently served as Transitional Minister at Peachtree Corners Christian Church in Norcross.
Alan lives in Winder, Georgia, with his wife Cheryl (Minister of First Christian Church in Winder). Their daughter, Lee, and son, Timothy, are both students at the University of Georgia. Alan is very proud of his children, but still adjusting to being a UGA Dad.
Alan believes our identity as Christians is grounded in gratitude to God for the blessing of God's creation, and our life as a part of it. Our call as the Body of Christ is to remember and share God's Infinite Love, Healing Grace, and Radical Hospitality, always and everywhere.