{"id":1841,"date":"2014-11-13T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/?page_id=1841"},"modified":"2014-11-13T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:09:48","slug":"letter-from-our-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/letter-from-our-president","title":{"rendered":"Letter from our President"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bill_blymiller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-499 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bill_blymiller-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Blymiller, President, Board of Trustees\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Blymiller,<br \/> President, Board of Trustees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dear Prospective Ministerial Candidate,<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate your taking the time to look at our information.<\/p>\n<p>Our congregation is looking for a new partner. It\u2019s part of the natural cycle of church life. We are excited, afraid, positive, worried, anxious, and proud. We don\u2019t know what the future holds, but we look forward to it and try to steer it as much as we can.<\/p>\n<p>Our Search Team is gathering information, and among the things we hope to have a handle on through the process are \u201cWho do we want to be?\u201d and \u201cWhat is our role in our community?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have self-defined once recently. Beginning in 2003 the congregation held a congregational vote on our mission. Liberal Religious Education was the answer. Ten years later we have a new Education Building and a growing Children and Youth Program.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for us to self-define again and determine who we are now, with the people we have now, and the world problems we have now \u2013 an unsettling but ultimately productive activity.<\/p>\n<p>We want a Minister who wants to become one of us and lead and teach and learn with us, a partner and an advisor who will love this congregation as we do.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this makes some sense to you. We are eager to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Blymiller<br \/>\nPresident, Board of Trustees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Prospective Ministerial Candidate, We appreciate your taking the time to look at our information. Our congregation is looking for a new partner. It\u2019s part of the natural cycle of church life. We are excited, afraid, positive, worried, anxious, and proud. We don\u2019t know what the future holds, but we look forward to it and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/letter-from-our-president\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter from our President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1841","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uutampa.org\/search2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}