If the position is part time, advertising the job in your congregation's newsletter as well as through cluster and district communication channels often produces good results. In 1994 the Unitarian Universalist Association inaugurated a Registry of Religious Educators, both volunteer and paid, to acknowledge their preparation and growth and to support a placement network for congregations and religious educators. For information about search and settlement of a minister of religious education, or an associate minister with religious education responsibilities, the Department of Ministry can help. In summary, the process of hiring a religious educator involves assessing current staffing and program provisions, consulting your constituencies and envisioning future directions, creating a realistic and satisfactory job description, deciding on processes and criteria to recruit, interview, and hire, and finally, planning and implementing how to introduce and support the new religious educator. Whatever staffing arrangements are made, in our system of congregational polity, the responsibility for religiously educating the congregation remains with the membership.
Congregations are free to choose the leadership they want to meet their goals.
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