Our Minister

We seek a spiritual leader with both professional competence and passion for Unitarian Universal values and ministry. We hope for a person of strong character and empathy who is able to value and support a diversity of religious and spiritual views. Strengths in preaching and leading worship are highly valued.

We hope for a minister who will listen to us and help us listen to each other. Our minister should draw upon relational skills to invite our disparate voices to engage with respect and kindness so that we can make decisions about the future of our congregation together. We wish to continue healing rifts and creating a spirit of community that unites rather than divides. Our new minister should have a commitment to social justice, as well as intellectual curiosity.

We hope for a minister who can inspire us to give generously of our time, talents, and financial resources, and cultivate new members and new ways to share our UU principles and traditions within the larger community. We wish to cultivate an attitude of abundance rather than scarcity.

The ministerial style we most desire is that of the pastor who, by virtue of his/her/their spiritual gifts becomes an inspiring and influential counselor to a strong lay leadership. Additionally, respondents overwhelmingly indicated that while the minister is foremost a spiritual and inspirational leader to the congregation, our minister also has an important role in the administration of church operations. We envision energetic, collaborative relationships between our minister, Board of Trustees, and church members.