UPDATE FROM THE SEARCH COMMITTEE
Despite the Corona Virus your Search Committee is still at work. You may have noticed that your Search Committee has been missing from church lately. We spent 4 weekends hosting ministerial candidates, eating meals with them, conducting lengthy interviews, showing them the church and surrounding area, plus experiencing their preaching at a southern Maine UU church. These weekends were enjoyable and fruitful, and we were blessed to navigate those weekends without challenges from illness or weather.
The committee continues to meet. We are sorting through a significant amount of information, checking references, rank ordering the candidates, and following UUA procedures. We expect to contact the best match candidate in early April.
Once we choose the top candidate and if the candidate chooses us we shall invite the candidate to come to Candidating week with us. We can not announce the name of the candidate until the candidate has negotiated specifics of their contract, authorized a criminal background check and notified their congregation. At this point we can release the name of the candidate.
With the church, state and country suggesting social distancing and small gatherings Candidating Week may need to be conducted differently than we have been planning. The UUA may have creative suggestions as to how to do Candidating Week. Please stay tuned while we figure out how to best introduce the candidate to the congregation.