The work of your Interim Search Committee, comprised of Vicki Pepper, David Skidmore, and Mary Templeton, described in last month's Anchor, continues diligently. In its efforts to secure an Interim Minister for the second year of UNMC's purposeful Interim Ministry, the Committee thus far has identified a dozen potential candidates for whom it has reviewed information and/or with whom it has discussed UNMC's Interim Ministry. The Committee has interviewed four of those candidates and is in concerted dialogue with two of them. As of the Anchor's publication deadline, the Committee is in the process of running promising leads on a few remaining candidates to ground and hopes to complete all personal interviews very soon.
Although the Committee started initially with the formal UUA Settlement Office process and database, it since has broadened UNMC's horizons to identify and explore certain ordained UCC and Methodist ministers who might be theologically and liturgically compatible with our outlook and worship style. Per instructions from the Board, the Committee in its deliberations also remains open to a range of options for full- or part-time Interim Ministry at UNMC next year in its efforts to find the best available interim solution for our Church. The Committee remains hopeful that it will have a final recommendation for the Board of Trustees by July 15th, the date its Charter is scheduled to expire. "Stay tuned" for additional information.
Posted by Mark McNabb at July 4, 2005 02:09 PM