The Nominations Committee is beginning to identify a pool of candidates for Vestry approval and election by the parish at the next Annual Meeting.  Members of this year's Nominating Committee include The Rev. Charles Everson, The Rev. Gerry Shaon, Mr. Don Clark, Dr. Michael Frost, and Ms. Sharon Hunter-Putsch.  At the Annual Meeting in January, we will elect the following positions:

• Vestry member - three open positions
  • Definition:  The vestry is the legal representative of the parish with regard to all matters pertaining to its corporate property.  Our parish has nine elected lay members. The basic responsibilities of the vestry are to help define and articulate the mission of the congregation; to support the church's mission by word and deed, to ensure effective organization and planning, and to manage resources and finances.
    
  • Qualifications: vestry members must be chosen from adult members that are communicants  in good standing who have "contributed regularly...to the support of the parish for at least six months immediately prior to the meeting to which they are elected, and who are conscientiously attached to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Church." (Diocesan Canons, p. 22). 
    • An "adult member" is anyone sixteen years of age and older whose baptism has been recorded in the parish register.
      
    • A "communicant " is any member who has received communion at least three times in the preceding year.
    • "Good standing" means a person who has been faithful in corporate worship and working, praying and giving for the spread of the Kingdom, who is not under censure of the Bishop of the Diocese.
      
  • Term: three years
  • Time commitment:
    • A one-day vestry retreat in February or March on a Saturday that is convenient for all new vestry members and the clergy.
    • One vestry meeting per month at a time and date mutually agreed upon by the vestry and clergy.  They generally last no longer than one-and-a-half hours.
    • Other meetings as required.

Despite the fact that convention delegates and alternates were elected at the Annual Meeting last year, the diocesan canons require that the Vestry appoint convention delegates and alternate delegates.  Convention delegates attend a quarterly deanery meeting held on a Saturday, as well as Diocesan Convention, currently scheduled for Friday, October 25th, 2019 and Saturday, October 26th, 2019 in Kansas City. 

Please prayerfully consider nominating yourself or someone else for these important positions.  To nominate someone, fill out the form below.  Nominations must be received by Friday, December 7, 2018.