September 28 ,2021
Meg Hoke – Communications
Greetings, from the Settled Minister Search Committee
Sign up for your Cottage Meeting!
We are currently holding the Focus Groups
for some of our larger UU groups,
like Social Justice, Religious Education, Choir and the Board.
As promised, we have a list of dates and times for Cottage Meetings for the rest of the congregation.
The questions asked in the Focus Groups and Cottage meetings are the same except for one, which was specific to the Focus Group. They are geared towards us sharing with each other how we see and understand our Fellowship,and how we see our new settled minister fitting into that.
Already, we are gaining some deeper insights so we can present our congregation clearly and thus attract applicants that might be best suited to us and us to them.
How Sign Up Works: Check out the list of opportunities to meet below.
These are ALL Zoom meetings (we will set up in person meetings a bit later). Email Ron Partin ( rpartin@nullbgsu.edu ), give him your first and second choice of meeting. He will organize everyone into meetings and send you a confirmation and notification prior to the meeting. (We are still figuring out some logistics) PLEASE TELL US if you aren’t able to Zoom or if none of those times will work for you. We will figure something out. We truly want to hear from everybody. Please sign up with Ron ( rpartin@nullbgsu.edu ) ASAP so we can be sure to accommodate everyone. We recognize that we may need to shift times or dates, and we need to have time to do that. These meetings MUST be completed by the end of October.
Cottage meetings will be limited to 10. If you sign up, please be sure to come.
We may have declined to allow someone else in since we are limiting the number of participants.
Please note: If you attended a Focus group DO NOT sign up for a Cottage meeting.
Here’s the list of meetings. Start signing up…..NOW!
Tuesday, October 12 @ 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 14 @ 1:00 p.m.
Friday, October 15 @ 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 17 @ 2 p.m.
Just a reminder that if you want to see the results of the recent survey, the link is under Settled Minister Search Blog.
If you have questions, please contact your Settled Minister Search Committe Team;
Bill Elder, Chair billelder73@nullgmail.com
Ron Partin, Survey developer rpartin@nullbgsu.edu
Meg Hoke, Communication hokemeg@nullhotmail.com
MC Gaylord, Finances mckgaylord@nullgmail.com
Mary Highberger, Cottage Meeting/Focus Group Coordinator
mkhigh141@nullgmail.com
Thank you for your confidence in our team, for your support, and, especially, thank you for YOUR commitment to and engagement in this process. Meg Hoke