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:
- 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.
Updates
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A Synopsis – “Our Congregational Covenant” Foraging for Our Future 6 – November 9, 2025
What the heck is “Foraging for Our Future?” These are times set aside for communal reflection on topics germane to FUS and its future. They are designed to give the whole FUS community, in this interim time, the opportunity to listen to one another and broaden understanding. One of the basic premises of the format of these conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content
https://firstunitarian.org/transition-team-updates/foraging-for-our-future/
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A Synopsis – “Service is its Law?” Foraging for Our Future 9 – February 8, 2026
One of the basic premises of the Foraging for Our Future conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content and feeling ‘enters the field’ and is then able to be part of the ‘harvest’ of the community. If we have listened well to one another, and done some
https://firstunitarian.org/transition-team-updates/foraging-for-our-future/
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A Synopsis -“How Things Work at FUS” Foraging for Our Future 8 – January 4, 2026
One of the basic premises of the Foraging for Our Future conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content and feeling ‘enters the field’ of the community and is then able to be part of the ‘harvest’ of communal possibility. What you contribute determines what happens. At this
https://firstunitarian.org/transition-team-updates/foraging-for-our-future/
Get In Touch
Members of the Team welcome your questions and comments about the interim process; please feel free to “bend their ears” with your feedback and thoughts through our contact form: