Professional Leadership
for the FUUCI

    As we create a cyber-space community,
we could benefit from some professional leadership.
Volunteer professional staff includes people who have seminary training.
But others who show the same abilities and interests
can also join the volunteer professional staff.

    The primary function of the 'ministers' is
to provide cyber-sermons and to engage in electronic dialog
after the sermon has been released into cyber-space.

    An important secondary function is
to engage in 'pastoral care', counseling, or spiritual guidance
by e-mail with individual members.
Any such connections are completely voluntary from both sides.
And the FUUCI does not supervise
or guarantee the quality of any such communications or counseling.
The members choose which minister to consult,
probably based on cyber-sermons already presented
and on the descriptions of their interests
as provided by the volunteer professional staff.

    There is no payment for the 'ministers'.
This means that they must have other means of supporting themselves.
Exactly how much time they will devote
to their services by means of FUUCI
is entirely up to the volunteers.

    This is possible for ministers
already serving local UU congregations.
The Board of Trustees of a local congregation
might approve including in the job description of their minister
few hours a week devoted to world-wide ministry by computer.

    If you (or someone you know) might be interested
in taking on some professional role,
send a description of yourself and your interests
to the FUUCI webmaster: James Park:
e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Go to An Open Letter to Unitarian Universalist Ministers.

Go to An Open Letter to Retired UU Ministers.
    revised 7-2002, 12-20-2007; 5-15-2012; 5-1-2013

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