Ministerial Search To Be Completed By Spring

Monthly Goals

March 2009

• Search Committee appointed

April

• Meet with district Ministerial Settlement Representative

May

• Search Committee Retreat

Summer

• Hold dinners for FUSN members to describe search process and obtain qualitative information
• Complete Congregational Record
• Begin compilation of informational packet for exchange with interested ministers

September

• Hold two after church information sessions to describe search process and obtain qualitative information
• Conduct quantitative congregational survey on-line
• Set up neutral pulpit arrangements with nearby congregations

October

• File required information with UUA Transitions Office by 10/ 31

November

• Meet with district Ministerial Settlement Representative again

November/December

• Receive expressions of interest from ministers
• Request access to Ministerial Records of ministers in whom FUSN is interested
• Exchange and review information packets with ministers where there is mutual interest

January 2010

• Continue to review packets of interested ministers
• Conduct phone interviews with some interested ministers

January/February

• Spend weekend with three-four pre-candidates and hear them preach at neutral pulpits

March 15

• Decide on proposed candidate and make offer (we cannot make this offer
• before March 15), per UUA Transitional Office protocols

Conclusion

And, hopefully, the committee will make a recommendation to the FUSN community in late March or early April 2010.