Rector Search Process

​We invite all who visit this page to join us in a prayer:

Lord of Creation, as we embark on this journey to find a new Rector, help us to perceive your divine presence in every step.

Help us to embrace the unfolding of your plan with open  hearts, trusting in your wisdom to guide us to a leader who will unite and inspire our community in love.

 Amen.
January 6, 2025: We are now accepting applications.

To apply: Please send a cover letter expressing your interest along with your current resume and Office for Transition Ministry (OTM) Profile to The Rev. Canon Christopher Craun, Canon to the Ordinary, [email protected]. Please submit your materials by February 17, 2025.

Below, view our profile, which tells our story and describes the position (or open it in a new window by clicking here):

Questions about the search process?  Check our FAQ or email Search Committee Chair Holly Bullock-Denniston via the office at [email protected].

Winter 2025 
  • January 6, 2025: Diocesan approval and official posting of the vacancy, OTM form/Q&A’s, parish profile
2024 - Completed
  • December:
    • ​Vestry approval of parish profile, OTM form/Q&A’s, vacancy notices
    • Profile team coordinates final profile draft with search team and vestry
  • November:
    • Search team is commissioned; begins to meet and develop their applicant review procedures
    • Profile team, vestry, and newly-formed search team gather in a facilitated meeting to review first draft of the profile and share feedback/vision of the final position description ("Who We Seek") within the profile document
    • Website updates to be made in alignment with new parish profile (including gathering new photos for the profile)
  • October:
    • Small group discussions held as follow up to survey, focusing on key priorities for the future
    • Questions-on-the-wall: Invitation for feedback, via sticky-note; questions posted in the Parish Hall
  • September:
    • 22 September:  All Parish Meeting  - Profile team briefs survey results (note: see briefing slide presentation below.
    • 18 September:  Holy Cow briefs survey analysis to vestry and profile team
    • 08 September:  Survey closes, data to be analyzed by Holy Cow (Note: 80 out of 110 surveys sent were completed—FANTASTIC!)
  • August and September:
    • Holy Cow survey is launched
    • Profile team members conduct interviews with staff, past and current leaders of ministry teams, past and current senior wardens
    • Finance Committee (separate from profile team) prepares budget reports and data to support the call for a rector​
  • Early July:
    • First meeting of the profile team is called; meeting with Diocesan Canon to the Ordinary, Rev. Chris Craun, held; research begins
  • ​​Late June:
    • Diocese notifies us that we may form a profile team, and the vestry appoints a team

2023

  • June 2023: Our previous rector, Kerlin Richter, departs;  Priest in Charge, Dennis j. Parker+, is appointed.

Slides from the All Parish Meeting where the Profile team briefing about survey results

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