Ministerial Search News - January 2, 2013

[Toby Smith Ropeik]

As we start the new year, your Ministerial Search Committee is busy arranging details for pre-candidate weekends with our three stellar finalists.  We will spend a weekend with each candidate during  the next two months and attend a service conducted by each at a neutral pulpit. We are very excited about our choices!

Please mark your calendars NOW! Candidating week, where our final choice for Senior Minister comes to First Parish in Concord, will be April 28 – May 5, 2013, which means the vote to call a new Senior Minister will be on May 5, 2013.

Now Consider This! (adapted from the BCT Workshop): UUA Case Study #10 (a true UU story)
When a parishioner hears the new minister is a lesbian, she pulls aside a member of the search committee and says, “But we need a minister who will attract families!” Is this a problem and how should it be handled?

As always, feel free to contact any one of us:  John Boynton (j...@firehousecapital.com),  Caroline McCloy (cmcc...@aol.com), Rhoda Miller (rhod...@aol.com), Toby Smith Ropeik (t...@tobyasmith.com), Terry Rothermel (ter...@verizon.net), Mary-Wren vanderWilden (vander...@verizon.net), Fred Van Deusen (fredv...@aol.com), Alec Walker (alecw...@aol.com)



Best, Toby

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Toby Smith Ropeik
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E-mail: t...@tobyasmith.com