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Rector Search update

The Search Committee has nearly completed setting up the processes for our discernment – interview questions for candidates and answers to questions they may have, based on St. Paul’s Parish Profile – and we will soon begin interviews. In the meantime, we’ve received portfolios from a number of very interesting candidates, and our parishioners have […]

Preparing for interviews

The Rector Search Committee has been setting up its processes, most recently developing specific interview questions to use with each candidate, based on the skills that the parish said we should be looking for. We’ve taken this week off, but next Tuesday, January 5th, we’ll meet to conduct a mock interview. By mid-January we should […]

Reviewing the discernment process

This week the committee had a workshop with our consultant, Barbara Abbott, to learn more about how our discernment process can work best going forward. Next week we’ll be working on the specifics of how to evaluate rector candidates: what criteria does the Parish Profile suggest, and what interview questions will help us see how […]

Getting to work

The Rector Search Committee has been meeting regularly, first to set up our Basecamp account to manage our work, then to study in depth what St. Paul’s is like. Carroll Sheppard’s “7 Generations of St. Paul’s” was very helpful, and we’re immersing ourselves in the Parish Profile to understand who we say we are. Next […]

St. Paul’s Rector Search Committee

Louise Thompson, Committee Chair Louise has been a devoted member of St. Paul’s for over 30 years; she has sung in the Choir for most of her time here and was co-director of the Christmas Pageant for the past three years, in addition to volunteering on the Rummage Sale, a breakfast team, and the gardens […]