Our President and Moderator:

Rev. Randy Philip Edward Orso D.D. (Hon.) was ordained by  the Universal Life Church (Modesto), the Universal Life Church Monastery (Seattle), and co-ordained in the American Marriage Ministries (Seattle). He holds a BA cum laude et honestate (with praise and in an honors program) from Saint Michael's College, Vermont, a Catholic 4 year college. During his college years he was active as a chaplain for the College Republicans of his college, the first openly gay College Republican Chaplain in Vermont.  He was the first web designer for the Ally Group at Saint Michael's College, the Gay-Straight Alliance there.  He also was twice a delegate to the Vermont Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Rutland, Vermont.  He also was a retreat leader for fellow college students as well as Maine youth groups, and Vermont Catholic Scouts.  He taught Sunday school, assisted converts to learn more about Christianity and was active in Bible Studies and fellowship programs.  He also was given an honorary doctorate by the Rev. Kirby Hensley's wife Lida G. Hensley, the then President of the Universal Life Church at the Modesto Headquarters.

Rev. Orso has worked in ministry with day treatment facilities for people with mental illness, LGBTI rights work, and Ugandan Human Rights issues.  Rev. Orso has worked in Marketing, Mental Health, Security, Educational Software, Technology, Non-Profits and Youth Advocacy.  He was 1999 Academic Convocation Speaker for Technology at Atlantic Union College.  He attended MIT's Race in Digital Space Conference and was supervising an award winning digital divide center.  Rev. Orso has signed petitions and letters for marriage equality in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania as well as nationwide.  Currently Rev. Orso is an adviser to two non-profits in Uganda as part of a fellowship with activists there.   He remains devoted to his parents and his community, having successfully advocated for the zoning of adult businesses away from his neighborhood and speaking out against the crime associated with such places.  

In 2010 Rev. Orso was in a car crash caused by a truck driving in the Poconos in a road rage incident.   Since that time, Rev. Orso has been permanently disabled and is no longer officiating weddings and no longer is engaged in active ministry.  Although currently retired, Rev. Orso still speaks out on issues of social justice.

The Rev. Orso attended a prayer breakfast in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with clergy from the Lehigh Valley who support the Fairness Act in the Pennsylvania Legislature which would add protections for LGBT people to the Human Relations Act further protecting LGBT people from workplace, housing and publc accommodation discrimination. Rev. Orso spoke with members of the Monroe County Clergy Association about the Fairness Act and has recently joined the Poconos Interfaith LGBT Alliance. He attended the Transgender Day of Rememberance service at Zion United Church of Christ in Stroudsburg, PA.  Randy attended the "Faith: A Conversation" with the NEPA Rainbow Alliance, a group for which he has raised funds for by doing charity tarot readings at PrideFest in  the park in years past.  Rev. Orso and his Father attended in Scranton, PA at St. Luke's Episcopal Church a candlelight vigil in memoriam for  those murdered in the Orlando Pulse Nightclub Massacre.