Soon after the retreat, the search team decides on who will hold each role and be accountable for each task in this section.

Here is an overview of the search team calendar for the Fall as you prepare your materials for your congregational profile and documents packet.

Your interim, developmental, or other transitional minister holds an important role not just preparing the congregation for a new minister, but as a support for the search team.

When a minister in a non-senior minister role becomes the senior minister, that relationship would need to shift significantly in the congregation.

Ministers known to the congregation who express interest in the open settled ministry position require special and intentional consideration before opening the search to external candidates.

Get to know one another, your strengths and skills, and how you might share tasks, practice good team communication and decision-making.

Guidance for the search team, including the retreat, roles and tasks, congregational discernment opportunities, and preparing the search profile and packet.

Confidentiality is essential in the search process. Search teams are entrusted to keep the names of all applicants confidential; from the congregation, from the staff, and from the other lay leaders.

The work of search begins in May with some critical deadlines: registering with the UUA settled search support system, the settled search overview webinar, and scheduling the search team retreat.

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