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Biography of Fred
Howard
Leonard “Fred”
Howard, MD is a candidate for ministry in the Unitarian Universalist
Association. Fred is a
native of
Macon, Georgia. He attended Valdosta State
College and the Medical College of Georgia.
He practiced medicine as a family physician in
Cairo, Georgia
and in
Douglas,
Georgia
for twenty years before he heard the call to ministry.
Fred closed his medical practice in 2002 and began part time work
as an emergency room physician so that he could attend seminary.
In 2003 he began studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory.
After graduation in 2006, he spent a year in the Clinical
Pastoral Education program at Emory
Hospital. Though the wards of a
hospital were quite familiar to Fred, he was now assuming a very
different role, that of a hospital chaplain.
The final leg of his ministerial training was completed in 2007
at the High Street Church in Macon
where he did his ministerial internship.
At present Fred continues to work part time in the emergency room
in
Appling
County
even as he serves as minister of the Valdosta
Church.
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Fred has special interests in
contemplative spirituality, mind body medicine, and interfaith and
intercultural exchange. He has
been to Transylvania several times and recently led a pilgrimage there for
Unitarian Universalists from across Georgia. In addition to his work in the
fields of ministry and medicine, he also works with several non profit
organizations. He is on the Board
of Directors of Peacemakers, an organization that fosters world peace by
teaching children ethical values
common to all religions and denominations in a summer camp program, and the
Board of Project Harvest Hope, an organization that works with our
sister Unitarian congregations in
Transylvania
to promote sustainable economic development.
Fred is married to Kathy
Riggins Howard of Blackshear,
Georgia. Kathy and Fred met while
attending VSU. They have three
grown children, all of which attended VSU as well – Mandy, an optometrist,
Misty, a first grade teacher, and Dustin, now a graduate student at Georgia
Tech. They also have twin
grandchildren, Bennett and Kade, who reside in
Valdosta.
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