Clerical titles can cause considerable confusion.

IN THIS PARISH, WE USE FIRST NAMES WITHOUT TITLE.

For more information about clerical titles in the Episcopal church, check out Frequently Asked Questions.

 

ASSISTING CLERGY:                                       WORSHIP LEADER:                                       EUCHARISTIC MINISTER:

The Rev. Fred Stevenson                                                                                                           

The Rev. Janice Yskamp                                                

The Rev. David Bateman                                                Deb  Muthler                                                              Valerie  Jewell

The Rev. Lauri Kerr                                                      Steve Muthler

The Rev. Jim Robertson

The Rev. Kerry Aucker, PhD

 

                2022 VESTRY

SENIOR WARDEN: Deb Muthler        2021

JR WARDEN: 

SECRETARY:  Gloria DeParsis             2022

                                                            TREASURER: Steve Muthler                2022  

                                                            Chad Hoffman      

Scott Bennett                                          2020

Harry Overdorf                                       2022

 

 

 Who is responsible for what?

The governance of the Parish relies on  an effective relationship  between vestry members and rectors. Working together to provide healthy parish leadership, specific canonical responsibilities are as follows:

The vestry’s role: 

  • To be agents and legal representatives of the parish in all matters concerning corporate properties; and the relations of the parish to its clergy;
  • To ensure that standard business methods, as outlined in Title I, Canon 14, Section 2, will be observed;
  • When a parish is without a rector, to see that worship continues and to call a new rector;
  • To nominate persons for holy orders and other offices as appropriate.

The rector’s role: 

  • Worship and spiritual life;
  • Selection and oversight of assisting clergy;
  • Use and control of all buildings and furnishings
  • Education of all ages in the scriptures...and in the exercise of their ministry as baptized persons;
  • Stewardship education for all ages;
  • Preparation for baptism, confirmation, reception and reaffirmation;
  • Announcing the bishop’s visit with the warden and vestry, and providing information about the congregation’s spiritual and temporal state; 
  • Applying “open plate” offerings from one Eucharist a month to charitable use;
  • Reading communications from the House of Bishops at worship;
  • Recording baptisms, marriages, confirmations and burials in the parish register.

By Leonard Freeman, part of the Vestry Papers issue on Vestry Orientation (May 2008)