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Embracing Change: Connecting Retired Clergy and Vibrant Communities for Mission

This project facilitates retired clergy to lead vibrant, small worshipping communities, fostering mission and laity ministry. The aim is to support congregations seeking part-time clergy leadership, embracing the retirement surge among clergy and cultivating new opportunities for ministry. The fundamentals include a commitment to non-stipendiary ministry, vibrant community dynamics, and lay leadership development. Congregations need to provide detailed information about their worship style, ministries, financial status, and the clergy's role. The process involves an intensive intake and assessment phase, followed by a discernment process to match clergy with suitable congregations for mutual training and ministry development. This initiative aims to bring about positive change and growth in both retiring clergy and emerging congregations.

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Embracing Change: Connecting Retired Clergy and Vibrant Communities for Mission

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  1. The Episcopal Church’s Connecting Vital Retired Clergy and Vibrant, Small Worshipping Communities for Mission Introduction for Pilot Dioceses and their Congregations

  2. Pilot project: Learning together; not perfect 2-3 congregations per diocese seeking part-time clergy leadership; 2 year NDNV commitment Connecting Vital Retired Clergy Increasing # of clergy retiring as opportunity Some with call to encore ministry Gifts for developing ministry of laity NOT chaplain, interim, place-holder Fundamentals

  3. Fundamentals Vibrant, Small Worshipping Communities for Mission • Some understanding of baptismal ministry & gather around ministry and not minister • Vibrant, basic financial stability; strong lay leadership • Seeking less-than-full-time clergy • 2 year commitment to NDNV project

  4. Next Steps with Congregation • Waiver: Information may be distributed, disseminated and discussed with the principals, partners and other participants in the project. • Congregational Information Intake Worksheet • Vestry discussion and clarity as much as possible about:

  5. Next Steps with Congregation portfolio continued… • Amount of time for clergy person (1/2; 1/3; 1/4; etc.) • Details about: worship, liturgical style, ministries (pastoral care, Christian formation, administration, outreach), staffing and buildings. • Finances: total funds available for clergy related costs, not by category; Need for flexibility; Each situation special. • Narrative (OTM) and Unique Attributes

  6. Next Steps with Congregation • On-Line Congregational Assessment Survey • SurveyMonkey; hard copy possible • Vestry and Congregational perceptions and comparisons • Baptismal Ministry discussion • Where are we on the GAM continuum?

  7. Baptismal Ministry resourcing as needed NDNV & normal diocesan transition process to identify clergy candidates Normal discernment process for call Then, Phase III – mutual training Next Steps with Congregation

  8. Questions and Clarifications • What Questions do you have? Clarifications that are needed? • Remember: Doing something new and different can create anxiety in the “system.” Let’s stay in partnership 

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