At the General Meeting in June 2026, UUSLO selected seven members to form a Search Committee tasked with selecting a new settled minister. Fortunately, the UUA (Unitarian Universalist Association) has a detailed process to follow and offers personal support along the way.
The Search Committee is tasked with discerning the needs of the congregation and assessing all ministerial candidates against those needs. UU’s are notoriously diverse minded, so this is a task to be taken seriously, centered and grounded in love. The process includes workshops, congregation-wide surveys, small group meetings and more.
This page will be updated as the process unfolds. Meet the search team. Follow the schedule. Don’t expect to see any information about candidates because it is held in confidence. Come back often for updates. Send the search team your good wishes.
From left to right in the back row: Alison Rittger, Mary Glick, Alice Reinheimer, Dawn Olsen, Jamie Woolf
From left to right in the front row: Larry Iaquinta, Adrienne Harris
Log in to view the search committee's bios.Interim Minister Rev. Brigitta Vieyra will be providing ministerial support to the team during the search period, as a chaplain, and as a resource (e.g. for practice interviews). The team is very grateful!
Search Committee Retreat
Aug 4 & 5
Done! We got to know each other better, drafted a covenant and assigned tasks. Big thanks to Margie from the UUA transitions team for leading us.
Congregational survey administered – very important for everyone to fill out.
Survey link to be emailed week of Sept. 13th. Paper copies will be available.
In planning
Congregation-wide workshop:
Break Barriers, Build Beliefs
Four hours on a Saturday, Fall, 2026
In planning
Congregational small groups and focus groups meet to help discern the needs of all our communities.
Fall, 2026
To be planned
Document packet for ministerial candidates to review submitted to UUA
Early Dec., 2026
To be planned
Minister candidates apply
January, 2027
Names will be released to the Search Team only.
The final candidate is announced
Early April, 2027
The final candidate spends the week at UUSLO. The congregation holds a vote to call!
End of April / Beginning of May 2027
The entire congregation participates
Say goodbye to our Interim Minister
Summer 2027
Date TBD
Our new minister’s first day!
August 1, 2027
A Big UUSLO Welcome!
To keep the congregation up to date, articles on the Search are published in the weekly e-newsletter, the NUUs and re-posted here.
Search Committee Selected
The congregation elected its Search Committee Slate at the June 7th Congregational Meeting. Adrienne Harris, Alice Reinheimer, Alison Rittger, Dawn Olsen, Jamie Woolf, Larry Iaquinta, and Mary Glick have begun organizing and planning their first retreat, to be led by a settled minister search coach from the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Transitions office. (We were able to hire a coach at a discount because of our generous support of the UUA every year.) Financial support for the Search Team comes from our Endowment Fund. Rev. Brigitta Vieyra will serve as the group’s chaplain. During the process of discerning how our congregation can best be served by a “Settled Minister”, the Search Team will be meeting with the congregation for small group and individual input. All of us are enthusiastic as we go forward with our search for a settled minister.