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I believe in the local congregation. I also feel excited and eager to find new ways of organizing the church so that congregations and communities flourish. The Standing Committee seems at the forefront of addressing challenging situations.
I am in my twenty-seventh year of ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church, during which I have served five parishes in four dioceses, including as Rector and/or Priest-in-Charge in three.
For two years, I served as Executive Director of the Capital City CIRCLES Initiative in Carson City, Nevada, an organisation working to break cycles of generational poverty by building healthy, supportive relationships across class lines. That experience broadened my understanding of community organising and deepened my conviction that the Church is at its best when it brings people together across the boundaries that can otherwise divide us.
I have been elected five times as a Deputy to General Convention, where I have served on legislative committees addressing matters ranging from liturgy to social justice. Earlier in my ministry, I served on the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Indianapolis. In that diocese, I also served on the Executive Council, on a Bishop Transition Committee, and on the Convention Resolutions Committee, eventually serving as its chair. These experiences exposed me to the breadth of the Church’s common life and to the complexity of making decisions that affect congregations, clergy, and lay people across a diocese or the wider Church.