In the spring of 2025, the FUS Board of Trustees entered our congregation into the Unitarian-Universalist Association (UUA) Settled Minister Search and, with input from the congregation, assembled a Ministerial Search Team (MST).
The purpose of this eight-member team was to:

● Assess members’ beliefs and perceptions about who we are and what our congregation needs from its next minister (September & October 2025)
● Construct a congregational record and assembling key documents that help ministers in search learn about our congregation (November 2025)
● Evaluate and conduct Zoom interviews with applicants (January 2026)
● Choose 2-3 pre-candidate ministers to visit our local area and conduct in-depth interviews (February and early March 2026)
● Submit our pre-candidate rankings to UUA and ideally be matched with a final candidate who is offered the position and invited to “candidate” at FUS (Late March – April 2026).

A congregational vote then determines whether the candidate is called to be the next minister of FUS