It has been fun profiling our staff for you each month during my newsletter article and I have enjoyed the interviews. However, this month, I wanted to take a paragraph or two and update you on what is happening with your FIRM board in our organization search for executive leadership.
We have spent the months since last December assessing our organizations strengths, challenges, and future. At the same time, we have been building our board capacity and working with staff to re-dream our dream and envision our future.
That has given us a sense of prayerful direction about the sort of Executive Director we need and that person’s job description.
We believe that between now and the end of the year, we will be ready to make a position announcement and start receiving resumes for about two months. At the end of that time, we will begin to study the resumes and narrow the search to some potential candidates.
It is our belief that this process, when complete, will bring us to some time in the mid to late summer of 2014.
Because of the strong leadership of our interim co-directors, Sophia Dewitt and Paula Cha, we have been able to conduct this process prayerfully and methodically while the organization continues to grow and prosper.
I am convinced that there are great days ahead for FIRM as we share the love of Christ to build communities of hope with new Americans!
– Tom Sims, Board Chair, email Tom, 559-647-2203