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Change of Pace. . .
A Search Committtee

a la the Dating Game!
Remember the 60's TV Dating game - what if that format was used by a search committee to do serial candidating - - candidates out of sight of the search committee and the full spectacle in front of the congregation. The results were hillarious!!

The mastermind of this heinous plot to commit serial candidating!
The hat is passed to determine Search Committee members and Candidates for the ministry of this small fellowship proud of its past - no minister stays more than three years! (This is not recommended behaviour in any congregation, church, fellowship, or society!)
The Search Committee has been chosen.
The candidates receive their instructions.
No one got through the evening with out smiles and laughter.
Alas, the task of the Search Committee was not always engrossing - some resorted to passtimes.
A congregational member makes a point about a candidate with other members.
The Search Committee members debated into the wee hours of the morning.

The Candidates just shake their heads at some of the questions by the search Committee:

Is your turtle celibate? Are your monkeys celibate? Why do you breed horses? Can you just say yes or no? Was the dragon you killed really a mother?

If only all Search processes were so much fun.

The mystic Dumbledoor flitted through the search process with ease but got narry a vote in the end! ( . . . perhaps because he sleeps with turtles.)

And what do you do with a candidate who sleeps with monkeys?
The Don Quiote figure's lance popped open once too often for the Search Committee. The fact that she killed a mommy dragon was not in her favour.
The 60's warm fuzzy hippie type won hearts but, heaven forbid, could not stop talking about fixing the hole in our souls. He got a group hug for his efforts. However, we all felt that he needed someone to reign him in from time to time, so . . ..

In the end we hired the 60's hippie and this German autocrat who told us what to do at every turn, telling us to be quiet if we asked too many questions. There are limits to Questioning being the Answer.

A wonderful change of pace; thanks to Susan Suchuski for directing us in one of the most enlightening and funny programs in years.

 

 

 

 

Photo Pages Index

Greenfield Meetings
Archival Drawings
Greenfield Discussions
1950's Gathering slides

Change of Pace Programs
Relaxing - Fall 2007
Search Committee
Tableaus
Magic Tricks
Making Christmas Ornaments

Around Our lady of Peace
Around Our Lady of Peace
Stained Glass
Rock at Road's End

SPECIAL
Poem about Senexet by Dick Fewkes (1972)

 

 

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