Second Minister Search

The First Parish Church in Weston is seeking a second minister to fill the role of Associate Minister. The title is Associate Minister, rather than Assistant Minister or Minister of some specialty, because the parish anticipates hiring an experienced individual who can not only focus on and succeed in designated areas of responsibility, but can fully complement the work of our Senior Minister. We seek a minister who has the interest, skills, and availability to sustain parishioners who seek this minister's spiritual insights or pastoral care.

While the First Parish seeks a minister with a full range of ministerial skills, we expect our second minister to focus primarily on our children and youth, and secondarily upon our social justice and outreach programs. The Church School is a critically important part of our parish and with the help of our Director of Religious Education, and many dedicated parent volunteers, we have created and sustained a vigorous and successful church school program. We need to extend that success to create an equally strong Youth Ministry program. We therefore seek a minister with direct hands-on experience with both a church school and a youth ministry, who can draw upon that experience to inspire our DRE and youth to build a more supportive community for our teenagers.

First Parish has an active and wide ranging outreach program that we hope will be enhanced by the passion of our second minister. Similarly, we have a large number of parishioners energized and committed to social justice issues. We seek a minister who has direct proactive social justice experience to help harness and direct that energy. As a natural extension of these focus areas, we will encourage our second minister to be a visible presence in our community, involved and present at activities that support his/her role with our youth and adults.

A more complete role description follows: