Nominating Committee

Convenor: Douglas Walker    Clerk: Cara Chalmers                                                                                                                                        David Aird, Fiona Eastop, Brenda Fraser, Brenda Frier, Alan Harper, Sarah Kendrick, Rob Packham, Shona Sutherland, Linda Thomson, Rosemary Tolson, Luke Wilson. 

 

14 December - SOLE NOMINEE ANNOUNCED

The Nominating Committee is pleased to share that they have now selected a Sole Nominee to propose to the congregation, to fill the vacancy in our Team Ministry here at Kinross‑shire Parish Church and serve as minister alongside Alan Reid. The person being proposed to the congregation is Alex Johnson.

The next step is for Alex to conduct public worship in the parish, after which the congregation will be invited to vote on whether to call Alex as minister. This will take place on Sunday 11 January, when Alex will conduct two services:

·       Fossoway Church at 9:45am

·       Orwell Church at 11:15am

There will be no service in Kinross Church that Sunday, and we warmly encourage everyone who usually worships in Kinross to join with one of our other worshipping communities that morning. It’s an important moment for us as one church family, and your presence – wherever you usually worship – really matters.

At the close of each service, members and adherents on the Electoral Register will be invited to vote. All votes will then be brought together and counted collectively by our Interim Moderator, Marc Prowe, at Orwell Church. All who wish to attend to hear the vote outcome are invited to do so and refreshments will be provided at Orwell. We will also make every effort to ensure that those members and adherents who worship online are able to take part in the vote, where it is impossible to attend one of the services in person. More information on this will follow in due course.

 

10 October

Applications closed today at 6pm. Continue to keep the Nominating Committee in your prayers as they consider any applications that may have been received for the vacancy in our united parish, that the process of discernment may be guided by the Holy Spirit.

 

11 September

Vacancy information is now available on all three church websites: Orwell & Portmoak, Cleish & Fossoway and also on the Church of Scotland website (vacant charges).

 

29 August

The Kirk Session has approved the Parish Profile and the Nominating Committee can now move to the next phase in the search for a second minister. Final arrangements are being made for advertising the role in the coming weeks. The Nominating Committee will appreciate continued prayers for the process. Further updates will be shared as the process continues.

 

27 April - extract from Minister's Letter (Rev Alan Reid)

The task of the Nominating Committee will be"to look for the right person to be the second full-time minister for Kinross-shire who will work from the Manse in Crook of Devon (with primary responsibility for the worshipping congregation at Fossoway) but will also exercise ministry in the wider community across Kinross-shire.

The Committee will first meet with the Presbytery Advisory Committee to discuss the process of searching for a minister. They will decide whether to advertise and/or to seek recommendations for suitable candidates. In due course they may set a closing date for applications and then may decide to hold interviews and/or to go and hear ministers preach in their own church or in a neutral venue. We should not expect the process to be a hurried one and their deliberations must remain absolutely confidential, so we should not expect anything more than the most general of updates in the coming months.

In due course, when the Nominating Committee is satisfied that they have been led to the right person they will invite them to be Sole Nominee. The Nominee will then conduct worship at one or more services in Kinross-shire and you as a congregation will vote on whether or not to elect them. A Call will then be made available for signing and the Presbytery will be asked to sustain the Call and induct the new minister.

Please be patient but above all be prayerful in the months ahead."   

 

23 April - Nominating Committee elected at Congregational Meeting.