About Renewal Evaluations

Basic Criteria: To be eligible for renewals your ministry needs to meet the criteria defined in Rule 18 of the MFC Rules and Policies .

Time Frame: MFC Rules specify that no person in Preliminary Fellowship shall remain in any one renewal period (First Renewal, Second Renewal or Final Renewal) for more than three years, so movement to Final Fellowship status can take anywhere between three and nine years.  There is an expectation that the process will move ahead as steadily as is possible.

Evaluation Forms and Process: In order to be evaluated, you must supply the Committee with evaluation forms from the following persons or groups. It is important that you promptly complete and return your own self-evaluation and distribute other forms as well, checking to insure their prompt return. Please be sure that each committee or group files only one form:

• Yourself
• Governing Board, or Supervisory Board, or Supervisor
• Committee on Ministry

As a guide to completion of the evaluation forms, we recommend that:

1. The committees prepare a consensus report.
2. ( The column "area for growth" be used to indicate areas where additional study would be helpful. 
3. Comments be made, both positive and to mark areas of inadequate performance.
4. Supervisors should indicate both their name and title.

Other Information Needed: Forms are available.

• Church/Organization Profile
• Development Agreement
• Mentor Declaration Form
• Statement of Endorsement/Affiliation (To be filed if your employer is other than a UU congregation or organization.)

All forms must be returned in duplicate. The text portions must be typed. Failure to do so delays and jeopardizes the review and renewal of your Fellowship Status.

Please contact Leslie Staples, mfcassistant@uua.org, if you have questions.

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