The UUCC Board of Trustees is excited to announce the members of our Search Committee! Click on their names below their photos to read their biographies.
These seven people are charged with the extremely important assignment of determining our ministerial path forward.
The UUA Settlement Handbook: https://www.uua.org/careers/ministers/transitions/settlement-handbook. The congregational search process is mostly covered in Phase three (pages 40-66)
Mark your calendar!
We have a great slate of candidates for our Search Committee – please take some time to get to know them better before you vote at the Annual Meeting on May 31.
Who: Members of UUCC
What: Meet the Candidates
When: Sunday, Mary 17, 2020 … read more.
You know the people on the slate to be voted on to form our Search Committee, but what is their job and what is the process?
The Search Committee is charged with finding the best candidate to serve our congregation as a called minister. The following … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email address: laboraction2000@gmail.com
Background: Jewish Secular Committee, Joined First Unitarian Church 2003, Justice work in Colombia, A close friend of Nubs the barber.
Committees: Forum Committee, Lay Pastoral Care Team, Board of Trustees, Library Committee. ARE Committee. GCC Core Team. Merger Negotiating Committee. Worship … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email: megpauken@gmail.com
I have been a member of UUCC/First U since 2003/2004, along with my husband Kevin Ortner and my two daughters, Anna (18) and Betsy (20). I worked with a group of other parents of young children to found the … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email: Mike@BigSycamore.net
What is your background at UUCC?: I’ve been part of the church since the summer of 2011.
What committees, groups, and other ways you’ve been involved at UUCC? I’m a past member of the forum committee, a current part of the … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email: amymcollins@sbcglobal.net
I started attending the UU Society in 1990 and became a member of the UU Congregation of Cleveland when the new congregation was formed in Feb. 2019.
Over the past 30 years I have served on membership and worship committees, … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email: ljalbright@hotmail.com
I have been attending the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, and now the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland, since I was pregnant with our 35 year old son, Tim Larson.
I have served in a number of capacities: teaching … read more.
Search Committee Candidate
Email: Lou.Salza@gmail.com
What is your background at UUCC? (one sentence) Dell and I joined in order to find a place where we and our grandaughter then 4 years old could find a spiritual community
What committees, groups, and other ways you’ve been involved … read more.
