Now it is time to begin the process of calling our next Rector, both for today and for an ever-evolving future.

​We, the Discernment Committee of St. John’s, hope that these pages will serve as an information portal to our search.  Our desire is for you to be kept up-to-date on our process, and progress, in a way that is both informative and transparent.

​Please join us on this journey and keep the committee and our search in your prayers.

Your Discernment Committee members are:

Larry Roberson, Sr. Warden and Chair

Alex Germano
Peggy Jackson
Erin Trouba
Melanie Allen
Tom Bathgate
Mitch Holland
Rebecca Clayton
Christine Holt
Julia Kasdorf

Timeline:

1 / Getting Started

• Select Discernment and Parish Profile Committees — complete
• Meet with Bishop — complete
• Distribute Parish survey — complete

2 / Self-Study

• Church members complete survey — complete
• Survey results analyzed and compiled — complete

3 / Preparing

• Discernment Committee completes the Community Ministry Portfolio — complete
• Profile and Community Ministry Portfolio are sent to Vestry and Bishop’s Office for their blessing — April 15
• Rector position is posted — April
• The Bishop’s Office also spreads word of the opening throughout the diocese and The Episcopal Church — April

4 / Discernment

• Receive applications —
• Identify prospective rector candidates —
• Pray a lot and volunteer to help where possible! — Always!
• Interview select prospective candidates — Late April  and on…

5 / Call: With God’s Grace — Late Summer 2024

Creator of all good things, you have blessed our parish with the gifts of a loving community, devotion, and discernment. Grant that we may deepen our commitment to you, to each other, and to the future of our congregation during this search process. May we grow together in grace so that we may be fully prepared to support the ministry of our new rector; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. AMEN