Newsletter, March 11, 2014
Finding Our Minister: The
Home Stretch
These are momentous times at First Unitarian. Your
Ministerial Search Committee (MSC) has just concluded a series of weekend-long
interviews with each of our three Pre-candidates. In early April, just three
weeks from now, we will introduce to you our recommended Candidate to be the
next settled minister of our church. Then, from Friday April 25 to Sunday May
4, the Candidate will visit Worcester. There will be a variety of events, for
you to meet the Candidate and the Candidate to meet you. The Candidate will
preach on two Sundays, April 27 and May 4. After the service on May 4,
congregational members in good standing will vote on whether to call the
Candidate as our next settled minister.
We are excited about each of our three Pre-Candidates. And
we are certain that they are also excited about us. They are real people, with
differing kinds of expertise, professional experience, life skills, and
spiritual gifts. We have come to feel great confidence in all three of them. It
is not going to be easy to decide!
But decide we must; and they must, too. Just as we have
interviewed more than one Pre-Candidate, each Pre-Candidate may have
interviewed more than one church. So the MSC’s hope has always been that more
than one of these ministers would be someone we’d be exceedingly proud to
recommend.
We believe that that hope has been fulfilled.
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