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Evaluation of Interim Ministry

Please submit your Interim Evaluation by completing the form below. A version for print is available as an appendix of In the Interim (PDF) if you prefer to send a paper copy in the mail.

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Congregation Information
Name of Congregation:
City:
State/Province:
Name of Interim Minister:
Date Interim Ministry began:
Date of Evaluation:
Your Email Address:
Evaluation Details
This evaluation is (check either "A" or "B"):
A) by the congregational leadership, evaluating both the interim minister and itself
Convener Name:
Daytime Phone:
Who was involved in completing the evaluation process? (i.e. governing board? committee on ministry?)

Brief description of the process:

B) by the interim minister, evaluating both the leadership and her-/himself
This evaluation is (check one):
After six months:
At the end-of-interim:
Have you shared this evaluation with the minister/leadership evaluated?
Yes:
No:
Instructions: In connection with each of the interim tasks, please indicate both your perception of the interim minister’s effectiveness in assisting the congregation as it addresses each task, and the Leadership's Willingness to Engage: in addressing each task, as well. Then add any clarifying comments you may have, attaching additional sheets if necessary. Note to convenor: Please seek to arrive at a consensus evaluation, in which the assessments of the individual evaluators are blended into statements with which all can agree.
Evaluation
1. Provides assistance as we claim and honor our past and heal our griefs and conflicts
Interim Minister's Contribution:
Leadership's Willingness to Engage:
Comments:

2. Provides assistance as we illuminate our unique identity, our strengths, our needs, our challenges
Interim Minister's Contribution:
Leadership's Willingness to Engage:
Comments:

3. Provides assistance as we clarify the multiple dimensions of leadership, both ordained and lay, and navigate the shifts in leadership that accompany times of transition
Interim Minister's Contribution:
Leadership's Willingness to Engage:
Comments:

4. Provides assistance as we renew connections with available resources, within and beyond the UUA
Interim Minister's Contribution:
Leadership's Willingness to Engage:
Comments:

5. Provides assistance as we renew our vision, strengthen our stewardship, prepare for new professional leadership, and engage its future with anticipation and zest
Interim Minister's Contribution:
Leadership's Willingness to Engage:
Comments:

6. Were there any difficulties experienced with or constraints put on the minister’s ability to carry out the normal tasks of ministry, i.e. preaching, teaching, and pastoral care?

7. Has the leadership encouraged and has the interim minister attended to the self-care and spiritual practice which are essential to a rich, insightful, effective, and inspiring ministry?

8. Have the leadership and the interim minister encouraged the congregation to deepen its commitment to becoming a more anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural institution?

9. Are there other areas in which the leadership specifically asked for assistance from the interim minister, either as the ministry began or later on. (Please describe the areas, the minister's contribution in each, and the leadership’s willingness to engage in each.)

10. How fully did the leadership inform the congregation about the Interim Ministry Program before the interim minister arrived?

11. If a mid-term evaluation: What would you like to see happen during the remaining months that differs from what is now occurring?

12. Please comment on the Interim Ministry Program as you have experienced it so far.

13. Recognizing that congregational leadership is in its truest sense is a shared undertaking, what satisfactions and dissatisfactions do you, as minister or as lay leaders, have about your role in leading the congregation during the interim period?

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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.