What is your experience with Policy Governance?
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So the Unitarian Church of Lincoln is not a policy governance congregation. It was, they actually shifted away from policy governance as their primary governance model about a year before I started in Lincoln. So I know policy governance primarily on paper, and I really appreciate the clarity it brings, right? To have clarity around who is responsible for within what boundaries is counterintuitively a source of real freedom for somebody working in church leadership. It's a thing that has been a central part of governance for a lot of Unitarian Universalist churches over the last 10 or 15 years that I've been active. So I know it through that. I also read Laura Park's book and have spent time studying the model, and I'm really looking forward to being on a team that knows the system well. I'm a relatively quick study and somebody deeply interested in governance systems, and so I'm excited at the opportunity to work within a system that has as well developed an understanding of governance as Unity does.