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Cedars Unitarian Universalist Church
A Welcoming
Congregation
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Ministerial Search Please Come Home
Recognizing with joy the unanimous vote to call our new ministers, the Reverends Jaco and Barbara ten Hove, the Ministerial Search Team activities come to a close. It is with sincere gratitude that each of us recognizes the work of the Cedars Congregation. Whether you contributed to the search in action, thought, or prayer, each and every member and friend of our congregation has made something extraordinary yet everyday happen: you have helped to create a home. Two fundamental intentions have made the urge to find and stay home a reality. Resolution and settlement have been forming among us from the very beginning of our search process as a congregation at large. The start of our intentional search for home dates back to at least 2005. One Sunday morning for the Board welcome, I read Jane Hooper's poem for the first time. It seemed to capture our yearning then and ever since for a place to be together and to call our own. Three years ago these words held the capacity to accompany our Congregation as we ventured toward away from the familiar grounds of Hyla Middle School toward still more transience at the rented space at the Playhouse. These words have done their job well, for they have brought us to the place where we understand that home is people. Indeed, we are truly home. We expressed this fully in our vote on Sunday April 20, 2008. The Search Team is grateful for "your voice, your ways and your presence" that day and the days, weeks and months prior. We are thankful for a community willing but to do the hard work of soul-searching and self-evaluation as we completed the congregational survey and the minister search gatherings in the month of September last year. We are very grateful to those whose expertise streamlined our efforts: Walker Willingham, Survey Monkey Handler extraordinaire; Richard Wilson for his artful printing capabilities and fine financial eye, who, along with Herb Hethcote, put together the salary and benefits package in a timely and expert way. And of course, the Team relied on the ongoing support of the entire Board. Thanks to all of you who hosted and participated in the events of candidating week, putting into action the fourth point of our Mission Statement: To Love without Judgment, and perhaps enacting a fifth point, To Eat Well While Practicing Our Mission Statement. Thank you all so very much for your welcome, your hospitality and your open hearts. As a reminder, the results of Ministerial Search Survey are on-line, and are viewable by anyone with access to our on-line directory. To view it, go to www.cedarsuudirectory.org, sign in; then click on the "Survey" button. Yours in Peace, Dianah Cheung, Ministerial Search Team Secretary
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