Transition Team

FUS’s Transition Team, members selected by the Board, has been formed and is planning congregational activities, which will support Rev. Jullan and our congregation in the interim discernment period.

Members include:

• Justice Bovee
• Amy Drayer
• Hoyt Drayer
• George Greene
• Adele Hansen
• Wendy Jerome
• Cindy Pichotta

The Team will use resources provided by the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Transition Office. Part of our work is to determine whether the congregation knows itself well enough to present itself fully to minister candidates so that it eventually settles a new minister. Congregations that complete this self-learning in the interim process have a much higher success rate in calling a minister who is a good match.

To shape their efforts, Rev. Jullan and the Transition Team will be concentrating on five focus areas identified by the UUA.:

Heritage

Reviewing how the congregation has been shaped and formed.

Mission

Defining and redefining sense of purpose and direction.

Leadership

Reviewing member needs and the congregation’s ways of organizing and developing leadership.

Connections

Discovering and nurturing the relationships a faith community builds outside of itself.

Future

Preparing for the next era of leadership

The Transition Team may include hosting open community conversations and other opportunities for congregants to learn, reflect on, and share their thoughts about who we are now as a congregation and who we would like to be in the future. As with all other aspects of our congregational life, an integral part of the interim process is anti-racism, anti-oppression work to guide us toward a more inclusive and open environment.

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