Our Team

The Rev. Pat Jobe is a 28-year veteran of pastoral ministry. He is the author or co-author of seven books and did commentary as a volunteer for WNCW for 17 years in a feature that was known as Radio Free Bubba. Pat has a number of songs and sermons on YouTube.

Rev. Jobe is a foster parent to two young people and has four other children and four grandchildren.

Pat hosted The Connection Independent Television for 15 episodes, a program that was distributed nationally by Free Speech Television and can be seen on YouTube.

He was arrested twice protesting South Carolina’s failure to provide Medicaid expanded coverage to poor people and went eight days in 2014 without solid food protesting mountaintop removal in West Virginia.

Rev. Jobe’s partner of 13 years is Gabriele Rissmeyer. The two live with a dog and a cat. He is an award-winning journalist, has worked in industrial sales, on the factory floor, and as a delivery man.

For 40 years, primarily as a volunteer, Pat has been an ally of battered women and their children. He currently serves as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lake Norman, and All Souls Community in Rutherford County, N.C. He writes for two local papers in Rutherford County and works with both the FeedNC ministry at Lake Norman and chainfreedogs.org, part of the Heart Of The Carolinas UU Animal Ministry. Rev. Pat Jobe can be reached at minister@uulakenorman.org