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| Me with Vincent in San Diego, 2000 |
“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”
― Theodore Roethke
The Rev. Connie Yost is an ordained Unitarian Universalist community minister. She has served in community ministry for the last 20 years focused on social justice for the underserved and often invisible and forgotten -- poor, disabled, very young and elderly.
Connie currently serves as President of the Board of Farm Worker Ministry Northwest, which advocates for farm workers as directed by its partners – PCUN (Oregon’s farm worker labor union), United Farm Workers, Familias Unidas por la Justicia (Washington State farm worker labor union of berry pickers in the Skagit Valley), Western Farmworker’s Association and other farm worker organizations as directed by the National Farm Worker Ministry, where she also serves as board member.
She is the founder of Friends Stay Warm, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to supporting low-wage workers and immigrant detainees through cash assistance and advocacy. She serves on the Faith Labor Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, supporting the Burgerville fast-food workers as they strive to get an historic union contract. She is part of the Portland metro area Rapid Response planning team for potential immigration raids. She is the Treasurer of the Oregon Poor People’s Campaign and served on its coordinating committee as education and legal liaison. She serves on the board of the Oregon Memorial Association.
