Hilary Landau Krivchenia (Land'-ow Kriv-chen'-ee-uh) was called to be our minister in the spring of 2000. She began serving our congregation in August of that year. In October an Ordination and Installation service was held at the church.

Hilary graduated in June, 2000 from Meadville-Lombard Theological School in Chicago, Illinois. She was an intern minister for the Unity Temple UU congregation of Oak Park, Illinois and practicum minister at Quincy Unitarian Church in Quincy, Illinois, and served as chaplain at Rush-St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in Chicago and as intern at the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, a group that promotes sustainable solutions to urban environmental issues.

Rev. Landau Krivchenia earned a BA in philosophy from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin in 1977.  She was strategic organizer for the 1979 March on Washington for the ERA and for the first National Lesbian and Gay Rights March on Washington.  She also spent a year in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program as a liaison to the City Council in Pittsburgh monitoring Community Development Block Grant funds.

She was certified in 1984 as a massage therapist in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) and worked for several years in that field.

In 1991 she took her first steps on the path that led her to our congregation when she began attending the First Existentialist Congregation in Atlanta, a small UU-affiliated church.  Over the next five years, she studied with the minister, presented sermons and led workshops, eventually deciding to enter the ministry.  In 1996 she began studies at the Meadville-Lombard School. 

Since coming to Lafayette Hilary has been active in many community groups and activities. In the spring of 2001 she advocated for the passage of a Human Rights Ordinance for Tippecanoe County.