As we welcome our new congregational administrator, Andrea, please keep in mind these important reminders from Board President Jim Meckel  shared earlier this summer:

• Please do not contact the new administrator using their personal email or phone number. All communications should be directed to the office.admin email and/or the congregation’s voice mail system.
• Please remember that there are around 150 of us and only one of them. This means that if we all approach them during their first couple of weeks, either with outstanding tasks that need to be completed or simply with our enthusiasm at their arrival, they will likely be overwhelmed! Please consider giving any new hire time to adjust and integrate before approaching them with your non-urgent needs or your excitement about their arrival, and please try to approach them in a spirit of patience and understanding as they learn their job. If you are anxious about the transition, it is important that you do the work to manage your anxiety (deep breathing, meditation, etc) before approaching the new hire, so that you do not add your anxiety to the very normal anxiety they will also be experiencing upon starting a new job.
• Please remember that being an employee of our church does not make someone the servant of our church. Our employees, like all of us, are full human beings, endowed with inherent worth and dignity. RVUUF employees deserve to be approached with the same respect that we would give to anyone in our RVUUFian family, or to any fellow human being. Please make sure that your compassionate communication skills and commitment to right relationship are engaged as deeply in communications with our staff as they are when communicating with fellow members.