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Congregational Developmental Tasks for the Interim Year
Coming to Terms With History
- Saying goodbye to the settled minister and hello to the interim
- Telling the story
- Putting the tenure of former ministers in perspective
- Celebrating strengths
- Acknowledging weaknesses
- Deciding what to discard and what to carry into the future
- Venting feelings, grieving acceptance and moving on
- Acknowledging our own mortality, that we will fade into history
Considering a New Identity
- Using the interim time as an opportunity for self-study, renewal and growth
- Acknowledging and naming current reality
- Determining whether current image is realistic
- Determining whether current image is viable for the future
- Cognitive dissonance expressed, can lead to considering identity
Facilitating Shifts in Power and Leadership
- Celebrate past leaders
- Encourage healthy, realistic open decision making
- Encouraging and managing creative conflict
- Training and empowering new leaders
- Enlisting and encouraging new leaders, offer opportunities, taking time to know them, knowing names
Rethinking Denominational Linkage
- Building healthy partnership with Unitarian Universalist Association and the Prairie Star District
- Stressing importance of being a full share congregation
- Encouraging participation at General Assembly and district events
- Establishing a relationship of interdependence and trust
- Overcoming isolation that can occur with crisis
- Welcome District Executive to congregation and encourage them
Making a Commitment to New Leadership and The New Future
- Building consensus and excitement about a shared vision for the future
- Getting a good match between the settled minister and the congregation
- Developing clear and shared expectations of the future
- Saying goodbye to the interim and hello to the settled minister
- Building trustworthiness and being present
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Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth