Rev. Paul Beedle
For the last ten years Rev. Paul has served First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans. Before that, he served congregations in Houston,Texas, and Santa Barbara (interim), Pasadena (interim), Riverside, and Sacramento (interim), California. In some of those places he also served as an on-call chaplain at local hospitals. He was trained in spiritual direction at the FinD program of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. His seminary training was at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and his parish internship was at West Shore UU Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Paul was ordained in 1999.

Karen Walls, Office Administrator
Karen moved to Little Rock in 1979 from California and was delighted to discover UUCLR in the early 1980s. She retired from 18 years of work for the state doing a wide variety of computer related jobs, including the last eight years supporting the Governor’s Office. She produced the church Outer Circle for many years prior to becoming Office Admin. She manages the church website and email service, as well as helping with general computer support. She has served on the church board in other volunteer positions, and enjoys using her skills to support the work of the church. She lives with her wife, Liz Mackenzie, who is a real estate broker.