=================================================================
A Joint Nomination Committee has been convened and a first report was received at the
last General Meeting. The process is a long one, but, we have made a start.
=================================================================
Our minister, Rev. Peter Hobson, has resigned, effective from 31.10.2011.
The Glebe Road Uniting Church Church Council is currently undertaking preparation for the calling of a new minister.
Rev. David Baker, as Synod’s representative to us from the Bremer Brisbane Presbytery, has held information sessions with the Council and has commenced the process with us, of re-writing the congregational profile and identifying the primary strengths, goals and needs here at Glebe Road.
While this transition process is as all encompassing as possible and may, by some standards, be lengthy, no time is being lost in achieving a position from which a call can be made to well matched candidates.
For the immediate future, Dr John Roulston will continue providing pastoral leadership and ministry oversight for the Glebe Road UC community. He can be contacted at
johnroulston@gleberd.com.au 
Dr John Roulston AM has been the Executive Director of The Association of Independent Schools of Queensland and a Past Moderator of the Queensland Synod of The Uniting Church in Australia. He has been involved with DRUG ARM, and is Chair of the Drug Awareness and Relief Foundation [Australia].
Dr Roulston has also been active over several years in peak Drug Education committees established by the Australian Government and has over 20 years experience in working with non government associations.
Dr Roulston has been awarded a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia and has been awarded for his service to education, particularly through administrative and teaching roles in the independent schools sector, to the development of schools-based drug prevention programs and contributions to professional organisations.
Some of the highlights of this journey have been his many years of teaching and principalship within the State Department of Education, followed by a position as Principal of Cromwell College at the University of Queensland in 1973. This was followed by two years as Assistant to the Office of the President of the University of Idaho in the United States, eight years as Senior Lecturer at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education and 11 years, from 1984 to 1995, as Director of the Department for Education and Communication of the Uniting Church in Australia (Queensland Synod), including his two years as Moderator of the Synod in 1990 and 1991. Finally, John led Independent Schools Queensland from July 1995 to April 2010 .
