In 1990 Prairie Star District UUA, recognizing that only a few large congregations can afford the service of ministers and fully accredited religious education directors, adopted a Commissioned Lay Leadership program to meet the needs of smaller congregations to have trained leadership. 

Karen Kress was the first Lay Leader to be commissioned by the Prairie Star District.  She was first commissioned in the fall of 1994 and we recommissioned every three years.  She retired in the spring of 2009.

April Nielsen, BHUUF's Lay Leader

April Nielsen has been serving as the Lay Leader for the Blue Hills UU Fellowship since 2009.