4512 College Avenue, College Park, MD 20740, United States Weekly Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) 170 Number of Weekend Worship Services 2 Number of Weekday Worship Services 1 Number of Other per Month Worship Services 0 Current Annual Compensation Cash Stipend Housing / Rectory Detail Utilities $53692 $30385 SECA reimbursement $6965 Compensation Available for New Position $81150 Housing Available for 0 Pension Plan We're in compliance with CPF requirements. Healthcare Options Dental Housing Equity Allowance in Clergy+1 Yes budget No Annual Equity Amount Vacation Weeks Vacation Weeks Details Continuing Education Weeks Continuing Education Weeks 4 2 (standard) Details Continuing Education Funding in budget $501-$1000/year Sabbatical Provision Travel/Auto Account Other Professional Account Yes Yes No $75K + 6150 (8.2%, i.e., ½ SECA)= $81150; final comp depends on experience and EDOW guidelines
The lay minister for Christian Formation resigned just as the Vestry was planning the budget for the following year. After several years of opaque deficit spending the church was facing financial difficulty. The vestry decided to cut the position. This decision was communicated through back channels, resulting in outrage and hurt feelings. Several members took it upon themselves to open lines of communication between parish leadership and less active families. The finance committee planned a parish-wide budget meeting. Parents of young children were heavily represented at the meeting and several had coordinated statements. Representatives of other groups, notably the Jubilee commission, also spoke. After an open and honest discussion, the membership was asked to increase their pledges if possible. Enough money was pledged to secure a 20hr/week minister for Christian Formation. The additional dollars came from all segments of the congregation. The congregation felt a renewed dedication to minister to children and families. Additionally, Vestry felt a clear call from the congregation to focus on fiscal responsibility and transparency, which it has maintained. How are your preparing yourselves for the Church of the future? We are a welcoming congregation across the street from a major university. We have our own rich traditions amid a diverse, suburban, and increasingly dense population. We are open to change; we need leadership to guide us. St. Andrew s is spiritually rich, warm, welcoming, and inclusive. We look optimistically to the future. Children s formation is growing. Soon there will be more teenagers, and we will need to serve their needs. We encourage young people to become worship leaders; we need to improve adult formation and social connections, including for people aging in place. We look to renew the bond between the university, with its international and intercultural emphases, and the parish. We have a strong intellectual bent. The university encourages staff to live near us. Commercial development nearby brings increasing numbers from Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Our interactions with these communities are primarily through our local outreach efforts. We have a social media presence for communication and information. Although not easy, we work to keep our buildings in good repair; we need to make them more accessible. Preaching skills Pastoral care Collaborative style Good communicator
8:00 Sunday: Rite 1 contemplative, warm, traditional,intimacy of silence, more meditative (although there is music). A smaller gathering with its own identity. 10:30 Sunday: Rite 2 traditional Anglican service; structured but not rigid. We like tradition but are open-minded. The service is joyful, festive. We accept flexibility with the liturgy as long as it encourages sacred practice together with social inclusion. The Sunday 10:30 service is most inviting to families and children, though some find them too noisy. Noon Wednesday: informal Rite 2 followed by potluck. Traditional music is very important. We are a singing congregation with a fine adult choir and a burgeoning children s choir. Sermons are very important to the congregation. Ours is an intellectual community in a university town that likes analysis of the scriptures. We also like sermons that connect to current events and challenge us to serve Christ more fully in our daily lives, that speak to social justice, or that provoke new thoughts. There is room to push change yet there is also appropriate resistance to change. We accept variety in worship and the liturgy. During prayers, some stand, some kneel, some sit. How do you practice incorporating others in ministry? We are most successful at this when parishioners and clergy specifically ask others to come or serve. The personal relationship is important to both established parishioners and newcomers. In a formal sense, people are invited to participate in events by verbal announcements during services. Also, events and volunteer opportunities are posted in the service leaflet, the monthly newsletter, and on bulletin boards. The parish also has a website and is on Facebook. The reverse side of the annual pledge card provides an opportunity to learn about and sign up for volunteer ministries. Nonetheless, in practice, it has often been a challenge to incorporate new people into established ministries. We have a robust ongoing music program with an all-volunteer choir and a professional organist choirmaster and routinely host outside musicians and groups to perform in the sanctuary. We recently created a children s choir with a part-time choirmaster and volunteer accompanist. This effort is supported by a Wednesday night potluck before the children s practice. We welcome others to join in this and other programs. As a worshipping community, how do you care for your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being? We care for parishioners with a variety of services, including midweek and special services. We pray for those who need comfort, courage, healing, and hope. We recognize and pray for those having birthdays and anniversaries. We have children s and adult-formation programs: Education for Ministry and Daughters of the King. Hospitality is a strength used to emotionally care for parishioners: the weekly coffee hour and our annual parish retreat are significant for community-building. Currently our Congregational Care Commission is well intended but disorganized. In the past, individuals and groups have provided pastoral ministries such as: writing letters of condolence or congratulations; knitting prayer shawls for the sick; bringing casseroles to those in need. Pastoral care (home and hospital visits) for the older generation is very important and much appreciated; we expect the rector to take a lead role in this. We are working to make our facilities and services more accessible: handicapped parking spaces; a ramp to the sanctuary; hearing devices; a wheelchair lift to the Parish Hall; large-print bulletins. We are working on bathrooms that are accessible to those with disabilities.
How do you engage in pastoral care for those beyond your worshipping community? St. Andrew s provides pastoral care to those outside of our Parish in many ways. We allow the use of our facilities, at no or reduced cost, for Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings; the College Park Nursery School and the College Park Community Choir. We allow the use of our church for funerals and weddings (on a rental basis for non-parishioners) and we perform baptisms for all who ask as part of our regular worship services. We participate in global and local efforts to care for all through special offerings for relief efforts and participation in letter-writing campaigns. Locally we have 3 main outreach efforts: the week-long Warm Nights shelter, the Loaves and Fishes hot-meal program (1st and 5th Sundays), and Langley Park McCormick Elementary support. We organize a community-wide Easter egg hunt and a rehearsal-free Christmas pageant. We participate in Ashes to Go, a diocesan program designed to bring ashes to people on the street on Ash Wednesday. We also have a thrift store in our basement that provides low-cost clothing and household items to those in need. St. Andrew s is active in our neighborhood and community. The Jubilee Commission allocates funds in support of ministries locally and around the world and identifies recipients of special offerings several times a year. They organize outreach efforts, including the Warm Nights shelter and collecting winter coats and school supplies for Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School, whose students are mostly Central American immigrant or refugee children. Donations on Absalom Jones Day support the Bishop Walker School for Boys in DC.We donate Christmas bags through Samaritan Ministries for people living with AIDS. Our music program includes well-received public concerts with the National Orchestral Institute and the Rockville Brass Band. In fall and spring St. Andrew s has a picnic and buffet to welcome back returning students. Interfaith include providing volunteer and financial support to a day shelter run by an interfaith consortium and donations of goods to an interdenominational food bank (Help by Phone).St. Andrew s clergy and parishioners have served on diocesan committees and council. Our former rectory has been used as student housing and as a center for campus ministry. We have initiated several new ministries to build up our relationship with the community and add vibrancy to our worship. On St. Francis day, St. Andrews hosts a blessing of the animals service intended to be outside. Our new organist/choir master has initiated events with the University of Maryland Music, the National Orchestral Institute, and the Rockville Brass Band. Joyful Noise, our children s choir is open to community families. We have picnics on the front lawn several times a year in full view of the neighboring sororities. Thanks to a parishioner s initiative, St. Andrew s hosts an annual Absalom Jones Sunday celebration for the diocese. We have recently received a gift of 35 artworks largely by African American artists and are working on how they can be displayed and integrated into the life of the parish. Over the past five years, St. Andrews has created the first phase of a columbarium to improve pastoral care. Spearheaded by a lay leader, we are now planning a second phase. We give welcome bags as a way to systematically recognize visitors and newcomers.
What is your practice of stewardship and how does it shape the life of your worshipping community? We understand stewardship as the sum of the gifts each parishioner brings to the life of the church. Yet we recognize that it is a challenge for us to talk about money. We need to work on this. We currently emphasize pledging only during our stewardship season and need to work on expanding awareness of financial giving throughout the year. Volunteer work is easier to discuss, though it is a challenge to expand the number of people who are active. Many people offer their time to support programs like Warm Nights and Loaves and Fishes, to work in the kitchen for coffee hours and buffets, to maintain church property on workdays, and in roles in church services. Our talents are offered up in obvious ways by those who sing in our choir, teach Sunday School, and greet people at each service. Less apparent are those who offer their talents on the altar guild, on the endowment board, on the finance committee, or as treasurer. Pledges and other monies given to the church are for both the parish and specific causes, including altar flowers. Gifts to mark birthdays and anniversaries go to an international children s support fund. Recent conflicts around the implementation of Safe Church guidelines as well as some major budget decisions have resulted from what seemed like authoritarian decisions that did not include sufficient lay input or overrode lay concerns without proper consultation. St. Andrews has a long tradition of strong lay leadership, residing in the Vestry, heads of church committees, and the numerous volunteers who have special expertise in areas like budget, finance, and engineering. To be successful, the rector will take this expertise into consideration when making decisions. Some divisive issues were never fully resolved, and some tension still exists. Another area of challenge is that we do not directly and fully address conflict when it does arise. St. Andrews sometimes shies away from the hard work of reconciliation. It has sometimes fallen to outside mediators or parishioners working on their own initiative to keep these conflicts from growing into divides and by bridging communication gaps. We need to develop a more systematic and holistic way of airing grievances and working through them. 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? We are a community that is open to change and improvement, while committed to preserving its traditions. After the Windsor Report was issued along with the national church s response, the parish studied the issue of welcoming the gay community, and was largely open to such changes, including celebrating gay marriages and welcoming gay clergy (although a few individuals chose to leave). We have had both men and women rectors. We recognize the need to make our building more accessible and have the will to do so, but there are physical and budgetary constraints. We also change the little things: switching to using mugs rather than Styrofoam cups during coffee hour. We are a growing and adaptable community, not a declining one but systematic efforts to address future challenges can be difficult to achieve, e.g. a long-range planning committee created by our most recent rector collapsed with little success. Effective leadership (both lay and clerical) is necessary to make these efforts successful.
Prior Incumbents Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended Glenna Huber Interim 2016-08 Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended Carol Jablonski Rector / Vicar / Priest-in-Charge 2009-01 2016-01 Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended Karla Woggon Rector / Vicar / Priest-in-Charge 2001-01 2008-01 To apply, please send resume and full OTM to rectorsearch@saeccp.org. Church School Number of Teachers/Leaders for Children School 11 Number of Students for Children School 30 Number of Teachers/Leaders for Teen/Young Adults School 0 Number of Students for Teen/Young Adults School 0 1 Number of Teachers/Leaders for Adults School Number of Students for Adults School 7 Day School Number of Students for Day School Number of Teachers for Day School Day School
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Worshipping Community Web site: http://www.saeccp.org Media Links: Online References: > https://www.facebook.com/saeccp/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel English Provide Worship or Classes in: English To apply, please send resume and full OTM to rectorsearch@saeccp.org. References Bishop: Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde Diocesan Transition Minister Rev. Canon Paula Clark ; 202-537-6552 Current Warden/Board Chair Keith Arnaud seniorwarden@saeccp.org Previous Warden/Board Chair Mike Miller mmillervt@comcast.net Search Chair William Gilcher wgilcher@me.com, 301-495- 6356 Parish/Institution Local Community Leader Rev. Kristen Pitts Kristen is the Assistant Rector and also UMd Campus Minister; assistant@saeccp.org; 443-333- 9738