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1 Glendale, OH , United States Weekly Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) 198 Number of Weekend Worship Services 3 Number of Weekday Worship Services 1 Number of Other per Month Worship Services Current Annual Compensation Cash Stipend Housing / Rectory Detail Utilities SECA reimbursement Compensation Available for New Position $88000 Housing Available for 8 Pension Plan We're in compliance with CPF requirements. Healthcare Options Dental Housing Equity Allowance in Negotiable budget Annual Equity Amount Vacation Weeks Vacation Weeks Details Continuing Education Weeks Continuing Education Weeks One month, including 5 2 (standard) Details Sundays (standard) Continuing Education Funding in budget $501-$1000/year Sabbatical Provision Travel/Auto Account Other Professional Account Cash incl SECA: $62,693 Utilities: $5000 Rectory value: $20,307 TOTAL Pension-based comp: $88000

2 Holy COWE to Wow! Chapel Consecration May 13, 2014 Problem: 2 lovely Victorian buildings connected by a flawed 1959 glass/steel structure, leaky, hot in summer, cold in winter, hindering growth and ministry development. Preparation: 10 years of strategic planning & visioning, all-parish & stake-holder meetings focus on ministries, Community, Outreach, Worship & Education (Holy COWE) not on stone & mortar. Process: Build support, raise $ from all levels, involve many parishioners in 12 committees & teams, respect Glendale concerns. Construction: Develop a great transition plan, save heritage items before demolition, share 1 remaining john in the main church, laugh, communicate often & openly. Result: Wow! A stunning new building supports our homeless ministry w/ family restroom, shower, laundry facilities & air conditioned classrooms & large nursery doubling as sleeping rooms. All new spaces wired for current & future technology. Larger music room = more musicians. Strategically placed parish living room encourages fellowship across 3 services & more use by community groups. A gorgeous chapel inspires our contemporary worship. More possibilities we haven t yet envisioned! How are your preparing yourselves for the Church of the future? Christ Church Glendale has already invested a great deal for the physical Church of the Future: All Saints Hall, with its Chapel of the Holy Spirit and Fisk Organ represent our congregation s commitment to growth in a traditional and tangible sense. While our numbers have grown partly because of church closures in the area, we realize that our new building and incremental numerical growth do not prepare us for the future. We also sense that improving communication, embracing digital media, investigating the idea of transitioning to a program church and exploring new ministries are all possibilities for the Christ Church Glendale of the future to grow in numbers and in our faith. It s going to require a paradigm shift for us but we are beginning to discern how our Christ Church Glendale family will live the Gospel--beyond our campus, the Village of Glendale, the Diocese of Southern Ohio and the Episcopal Church. As we move from Building Our Vision to Living Our Vision, we fervently hope to continue to grow in faith, and, as members of the Body of Christ, to be prepared for whatever changes might occur in the broader Church of the Future. 1. Inspirational Preacher/Liturgist 2. Spiritual, Pastoral Leader 3. Collaborative Manager/Steward 4. Teacher/Evangelist

3 Do you attend 8, 9 or 11? That question shows the distinctive styles of our 3 Sunday services. Those who rise early for 8:00 love the peace, serenity &familiarity of Rite I. Families with young children are drawn to the more casual 9:00 Eucharist. Held in the contemporary chapel of the Holy Spirit, this is always Rite II. Music is provided by the Schola Cantorum (ages 7-14). No acoustic guitars or drums just vested youngsters who learn to read music & sit still. Bulletins are in English & Spanish. Movable altar & chairs allow for flexible configurations for a service that is still evolving. At 11:00 in the main church, a grand organ prelude precedes a formal procession with crucifer, torch & book bearers & the 25+ voice adult choir. We sing lustily from the Hymnal & chant psalms, using Rite II except during penitential seasons. On All Saints & Pentecost we combine the 2 later services. A weekly Wednesday AM Eucharist and monthly Healing Service with Healing Touch have a dedicated following. Special services during Advent, Christmas and Holy Week are an integral part of our members holiday traditions. An Anglican Evensong series features all our musical groups. How do you practice incorporating others in ministry? Our Commissions, committees, choirs, Altar Guild, & special projects are always looking for new blood. Some parishioners actually volunteer on their own. We also post items in the e-chimes and weekly bulletin when a call for help is needed. We provide sign-up sheets for special events. For new parish members, an established CCG member will ask the newcomer to attend a meeting or an event. We host a Newcomers Coffee where the Invitation to Ministry brochure is distributed. We can also involve members by sending out an blast or posting something to Facebook or just calling someone on the phone. We re learning that a face-to-face appeal, citing the skills our target can bring to the project, is our most successful method. As a worshipping community, how do you care for your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being? For Spiritual well being we seek, Healing intercessors each week. If daily prayers are in order The Prayer Chain recorder Will send requests up, so to speak! Fellowship here is a winner, When we gather together for dinner. House Churches do feed us Fun guaranteed us Our spirits only do glimmer! Emotional well-being is important And CCG has an assortment Of people to lean on And much goings-on To make any bad time a bit shortened. Feed My Sheep will provide meals To those that life gave raw deals. New parents with babies, Dog owners with rabies, Their dinners have so much appeal! When life gives you the cold shoulder, feeling like Sisyphus Boulder. Comfort and Joy warms you Prayer shawls to adorn you The Lord will be your heart's holder. In the unfortunate death of a loved one Emotions weigh like a ton Angel Teams there To alleviate cares And their empathy won t be outdone. The Card Ministry always remembers Birthdays from Jan.-Dec. Anniversaries and such It's never too much Mailing good cheer to our members! And finally our physical needs Are met with all manner of deeds From Blood pressure screenings And healthy choice leanings Parish Health in its mission exceeds.

4 How do you engage in pastoral care for those beyond your worshipping community? We want others beyond our parish community to Come and See and Come and Know our Lord and Savior. CCG has participated in the Interfaith Hospitality Network for more than 20 years. What attracts us and drives us is that it offers a hand up rather than a hand out for struggling families. 5 times a year we host and provide meals for families being mentored for employment and housing. Our joy is captured in the faces of a family telling us they will not return the next night because they have found a place to live. We spread our identity with pantry food, school supplies and other services for Valley Interfaith Food and Clothing Center. We provide meeting space for AA and Al-Anon and sponsor a community blood drive and a neighborhood Blessing of the Animals. 9 times a year Music Live with Lunch opens our doors to share our Music Ministry with the Community. Our Angel Team provides funeral receptions & assistance for parishioners and non-parishioners alike. CCG welcomes and incorporates worshipers of all backgrounds. 10 parishioners will complete Stephen Ministry Leader Training in March and we anxiously await the blossoming of this new Pastoral Care focus. CCG has a vigorous outreach ministry impacting lives far beyond our campus. Our best efforts come when we have personal connections & members who are passionate about a charity & engage us in their work. We provide 40% of the volunteers for the Diocesan Latino Ministry, started by a CCG parishioner. This ministry offers after-school tutoring, Adult Conversational English & Spanish for first responders. Bi-annually we join city-wide efforts to help low income homeowners. We provide people, products & funding to Valley Interfaith Food & Clothing Center. We budget funds for agencies such as the Episcopal Community Service Foundation, Lincoln Heights HealthCare Connection & Fernside Center for grieving children. Several Diocesan committees benefit from our expertise. We host Safe Church training for the Diocese & invite the community to retreats and Vacation Bible School. Beyond our shores we support El Hogar Orphanage in Honduras (5 trips there), Friends of Tubeho (education for orphans of Rwandan genocide) & Charity Water building wells in African villages. In the past 9 years, week-long choir residencies brought our American Evensong tradition to 3 English Cathedrals. CCG has recently shifted the emphasis of our Vacation Bible School from focusing on the youth to an inter-generational event. This shift has greatly increased the popularity of the event & many guests from outside the parish enjoy participating in our VBS every summer. Our numbers have grown over the last several years and we now serve 70 kids of all ages. An annual theme is picked that is appealing to all ages, such as Narnia, Wizards & Wonders, & Ohana Means Family. Each participant is given a t-shirt & for 4 days they work in groups according to age. All join together for lots of singing, wonderful food, & fellowship. The culmination of VBS is a final Eucharist for the entire group. It is a wonderful way for whole families to participate in group fellowship & it is wonderful to see different groups learn from each other & interact as a family. Our Director of Christian Formation, Joe Snavely, along with support and help from the Education Commission, does a brilliant job organizing our VBS every summer.

5 What is your practice of stewardship and how does it shape the life of your worshipping community? Stewardship is approached from multiple directions. The Every Member Canvass (EMC) is conducted in the fall to support the Operating Budget. There is also solicitation for Extraordinary needs (capital campaigns), Legacy Giving (wills and trusts), Environmental Stewardship and Time and Talent. We have a tradition of doing well with capital giving (recent building campaign $4.5MM pledged, <1% attrition) but we battle a degree of disconnect with the EMC. The Procter Foundation, our endowments and lack of debt tend to produce an ill-perceived sense of financial security. We need to educate our parishioners that the EMC is the source of funds for operating expenses and a balanced budget. We must break through the barrier that separates a fund raising campaign from devotional giving. We will be using personal testimonies, enhanced electronic communications and messages directly from the pulpit to build toward a significant increase in devotional and sacrificial giving. We need to inspire our parishioners that giving should be in response to the blessings of this life. Gifts of treasure must come from the heart, not just the wallet. We are Episcopalians. Of course we disagree! We have the same potential for conflicts as many other congregations including strongly held opinions & viewpoints from ultra conservative to liberal on difficult social issues. We are high church lovers to low adherents, history buffs to modernists, champions of classical music to Taize fans. However, conflict at CCG stays at a low level because we ve gotten pretty good at speaking the truth in love. Many of us have work or professional backgrounds which schooled us in appropriate assertiveness. We try to address differences among ourselves when they occur with honest, respectful dialogue. We can agree to disagree. We remind ourselves that the cantankerous old know-it-all who won t see our point is still a child of God. When hard feelings linger, we try to remember our primary identify as the Body of Christ. Our strong shared worship experiences help heal our differences. We re not perfect, but we more than get along! What is your experience leading/addressing change in the church? When has it gone well? When has it gone poorly? And what did you learn? Change has been embraced only when it has come about very Slowly and with much discussion and consideration. As with all large institutions, we only want change when we deem it is absolutely necessary and only then proceeding with due caution. Many of us are content to leave things just the way they are and see no reason for change. We rely on a core group of parishioners to initiate and facilitate change. It is those parishioners that are responsible for the changes that have taken place such as the new Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Interfaith Hospitality Network hosting, the family friendly 9:00 am service and many more. When done properly with good communication and insightful planning, changes have been generally well accepted. When done hastily and without due consideration, they have been met with resistance. Lesson Learned? SMEAC: Situation, Mission, Evaluation, Action, Critique.

6 Prior Incumbents Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended The Rev. John Keydel Interim Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended The Rev. Roger Foote Rector / Vicar / Priest-in-Charge Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended Re-opened when rector-elect withdrew due to personal/family issues. Speak to DTM w/questions or concerns. STRENGTHS: Strong lay participation/leadership; commission structure. Successful capital campaign w/new & renovated facility including new chapel. Excitement re new facilities & interest in possibilities for ministry. Talented staff. Successful interim following retirement of rector after 22 years. Church School total of 70 students Number of Teachers/Leaders for Children School Number of Students for Children School Number of Teachers/Leaders for Teen/Young Adults School Number of Students for Teen/Young Adults School Number of Teachers/Leaders for Adults School Number of Students for Adults School Day School Number of Students for Day School Number of Teachers for Day School Day School

7 Powered by TCPDF ( Worshipping Community Web site: Media Links: Online References: English Provide Worship or Classes in: English References Bishop: Thomas E. Breidenthal, DPhil Diocesan Transition Minister Lynn Carter-Edmands / tbreidenthal@diosohio.org Canon for Formation and Transitions; / Current Warden/Board Chair Penny Young Previous Warden/Board Chair Search Chair Parish/Institution Local Community Leader