Dear New Friends at UNMC,
By the time you receive this, I will have started as your Interim Minister. I am so pleased to have this opportunity to be a part of this special religious community and to offer myself to this ministry.
I am slowly learning about your history and your special needs. This interim period is a time of unique opportunity. I hope to work with you to use this time well. In our first weeks, I will be working hard to get to know you and learn from you what you hope for from UNMC and from me as your Interim Minister.
Kimberly and I are working on systems that will make it easy for you to reach me. I'll have an office e-mail address and my own voicemail on the church phone. Many thanks to Jorn Dakin for setting me up with a computer that I can use in the pastor's study. In about a month, I will let you know what my regular office hours will be. In the meantime, you can try to reach me at the church and if I'm not there, just leave me a message.
I would like to say a special thanks to the Interim Minister Search Committee for welcoming me so kindly. Vicki Pepper has helped in many ways with my transition to the area. Thanks to moderator Greg Wigle for his help with some of the paperwork involved with our moving. And, I also want to thank Sue and Bob Mosher for the opportunity to house-sit and cat-sit while they were away.
Perhaps like me, you are feeling some apprehension about this new beginning. It's fitting for a new beginning to have within it uncertainty. Hopefully, these feelings are balanced by a sense of excitement and anticipation. I know you love this religious home of yours. I am grateful for the opportunity to join you in ministering in this holy community. I anticipate learning a great deal from you; and, I hope we will join our heads and hands and hearts in the work of answering the gifts of God by blessing each other and the world with our ministry together.
Faithfully,
Mary Katherine