Dear Fellow congregants,
A couple of weeks ago we completed two workshops, facilitated by
the Metro NY District, that helped us to decide on a single, internal
and external focus for our congregation that is in line with our
mission. The internal focus is on articulating our faith and the
external focus will be to utilize our annual Jazz event to make
the larger community aware of who we are. I know that after receiving
Maj-Britt’s email the other day, many of you are now asking,
‘What happens next?’ Your Board of trustees has arranged
for a workshop on Saturday, April 5th given by Jane Dwinell, to
help us to determine our optimum organizational structure and to
determine the ministerial option that we would like for the next
year.
Who is Jane Dwiinell? A number of weeks back, 5 of your fellow
congregants attended a workshop at Community Church in New York
entitled “Big Ideas for Small Congregations.” The workshop
was given by Jane Dwinell who is co-author, along with Ellen Germann-Melosh,
of a book of the same name. Those of us who attended were impressed
and excited by what we heard. Additionally, much of the content
of the last congregational workshop we did with the district was
aligned with ideas presented in her book.
I am excited that at the completion of this workshop we will not
only have a single internal and external focus in line with our
mission, but that we will also be on our way to putting in place
the optimum supporting organizational structure.
I encourage everyone to try to set the time aside to attend this
workshop. We understand that some of you may only be able to attend
either the morning or afternoon sessions, and that is fine. But,
we ask that you please be on time for the sessions you are attending,
as we will be working through a process and it can be very disruptive
to have folks come in late to that process.
Date: Saturday, April 5
Place: Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, 687 Larch Ave,
in Teaneck
Time: 9:45 Coffee and Donuts
10:00 Organizational Structure Session
12:30 Lunch (Provided)
1:00 Ministerial Options Session
3:30 - 4:00 Adjourn
Thanks,
See you all there,
Jon
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Jonathan King, President
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades
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