MinistrySearch Website
Manage your congregational record, review ministerial records of applicants, and indicate interest in potential ministers.
To initiate a search profile, email the Congregational Transitions Director, Christine Purcell cpurcell@uua.org to provide the name and email address of at least one search team member. The UUA transitions team will open a search profile for your search team in our MinistrySearch system once that information is received. Only search team members added to the profile will have access to the profile.
UUA staff grants system access to the initial contact. That contact may add other interim search team members.
If your team wants access to your information from a previous search, you may request your congregation’s old record sheet(s) by sending an email to transitions@uua.org.
Using the MinistrySearch System
As you prepare for search, you will create or update your congregational record (CR, also known as a search profile) in the MinistrySearch system. You will post that record for potential ministers to read, and indicate their interest in our position.
Please click on the “Stay informed” button in your ministerial record to receive updates on kinds of search in each search cycle. You may also sign up for the UUA Transitions Team newsletter to receive general search updates.
Settled vs. Transitional Searches
All ministerial searches use the MinistrySearch system.
- The Settled Search Handbook guides the yearlong process
- The Guide to Transitional Ministry covers contract, interim, developmental, and short-term ministries
- See Process for Transitional Searches for important considerations for search teams