00:13:10 Dawn Mitchell: Central New York 00:13:20 Della Wager Wells: Della Wager Wells, Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI 00:13:20 Gillian Barr: Gillian Barr, Calvary Church, Stonington, CT 00:13:24 Keith Fallis: Keith Fallis - Good Shepherd Sapulpa, OK. Priest in Charge here. 00:13:32 Ryan Hawthorne: Ryan Hawthorne, Palmer, Houston 00:13:35 Steve Norcross: Steve Norcross. Portland, Oregon. Pension chaplain 00:13:41 Raul Ausa: Raul Ausa - Trinity Church, Allendale, NJ 00:13:42 Scot McComas: Scot McComas, Nativity, Scottsdale 00:13:43 Maribeth Manoff: Maribeth Manoff Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Fort Oglethorpe, GA 00:13:47 Marian Moon: Marian Moon, St. Augustine’s, OKC, OK 00:13:54 Corinne Danielli: Deacon Corinne Danielli, Emmanuel church, Houston TX 00:13:54 Cody Maynus: Cody Maynus, All Saints, Northfield, MN 00:13:55 Robin Reeves Kautz: St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Lake Jackson Texas 00:13:59 Matt Overturf: Matt Overturf, St. Anne's, Jacksonville, NC 00:14:03 Peggy Newby: Peg Newby, St. Paul's Episcopal, DeKalb, IL 00:14:05 Peggy Lo: Peggy Lo, St. Alban's, Austin 00:14:07 Verne Sutton: Sandy Sutton Senior Warden Emmanuel Episcopal Petoskey Michigan 00:14:09 Jim Mogensen: Jim Mogensen St. Aidan's Ann Arbor Michigan; convener of the Province 5 lay-led congregations network 00:14:14 Joe Swimmer: Good afternoon and welcome! Thanks for joining us for this conversation about working as a solo priest in this challenging time. EPN is pleased to present this program and invites you to learn more about our work at www.episcopalparishes.org. Please know we recognize that the experiences discussed in this workshop might not represent the breadth of experiences in all churches. However, we hope you garner insights that will spark conversation within your teams and leadership groups. We ask that you post your questions or comments in the CHAT feature here and our panel will try to get to them throughout the session. 00:14:16 Amy Spagna: Amy Spagna, St. James, Woodstock, VT 00:14:22 Andrew Ellison: Andrew Ellison, St. Catherine of Sienna, Missouri City TX 00:14:22 Edwin Beckham: Edwin Beckham, St. Mark’s Episcopal, Islip, NY (on Long Island) 00:14:24 Joe Swimmer: We invite you to put your name, parish name, and location in the CHAT for the benefit of our panelists. If you must leave early, we are recording it and will send the recording and the PowerPoints to everyone registered for this session in the next couple of days. If your parish is not a member of Episcopal Parish Network, we invite you to join our work. Our 240+ members make programs like this one possible. More about membership can be learned by e-mailing us at info@episcopalparishes.org or https://episcopalparishes.org/epn-members. 00:14:33 Laurel Coote: Laurel Coote, St. Dunstan’s Carmel Valley, CA 00:14:34 Joanna Hollis: Joanna Hollis, Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ 🙂 00:14:47 Maureen-Elizabeth Hagen: Maureen Hagen, Deacon at St Stephen’s Portland, solo clergy past 20 months 00:14:50 Mark Wilkinson: Mark Wilkinson, Rector St. Paul’s Katy TX 00:15:06 Shaun Joynt: Shaun Joynt, researcher in clergy wellbeing, South Africa 00:15:09 Sybil Fisher: Hi, I'm an AI assistant helping Sybil Fisher take notes for this meeting. Follow along the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/Ydb641yzlkwwHNLzvUp-OXNJTAU?utm_source=va_chat_link_1 You'll also be able to see screenshots of key moments, add highlights, comments, or action items to anything being said, and get an automatic summary after the meeting. 00:15:35 Iain Luke: Iain Luke, College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Saskatoon (Canada) 00:15:52 Robin Reeves Kautz: Question: are there clergy groups to think through challenges and programs with other solo pastors? Also, interested in resources. 00:17:33 Ashley Cook: Ashley Cook, supply, East Texas. 00:18:08 Gillian Barr: Understatement of the decade that! 00:19:33 Jim Mogensen: How do we promote laity wellness as solo and part-time priests manage their time by "empowering' the laity? ;-) 00:20:33 Annie Calhoun: Annie Calhoun, St. Anne’s Washougal, WA 00:28:57 Annie Calhoun: When a supply priest isn’t available lay leaders offer morning prayer during the time of Sunday worship. It’s gone over well as new for some and a good experience for those who remember that as the standard Sunday worship. 00:29:13 Jim Mogensen: We give laity tasks without the backstop - "sorry out of hours". Also, sometimes the roles that clergy have Eucharist, preaching, pastoral care can leave "less fun" tasks to laity. Nobody says "we'll do morning prayer and I'll spend all my time on committees with complex interpersonal dynamics.l 00:30:57 Annie Calhoun: I’m on my own - priest and office administrator! Everything is shared with people in the congregation based on their skills and interests including liturgy planning and selecting music, making worship slides and booklets, planning and hosting events, etc 00:33:35 Shaun Joynt: Yes, how do you practice renewal in 1) mind, 2) body, 3)soul/spirit, and 4) socially? 00:34:32 Jim Mogensen: I'm trying to be provocative on purpose.... I live in a world where there are no clergy 00:35:01 Robin Reeves Kautz: Somatic spiritual direction 00:36:09 Matt Overturf: How do you prioritize ministries that need to be enriched or enlivened in the parish while also maintaining the boundary that it is all our work together? Especially when laity have become tired from a year and a half search process? Currently Deacon in Charge and soon to be Rector and it is overwhelming to see all that could be done or improved while not feeling the pressure to do it all because people are exhausted. 00:36:18 Annie Calhoun: The newly ordained in this county both priests and deacons get together for lunch monthly 00:36:38 Gillian Barr: I have zero family and am single—so…. 00:37:04 Peter Schellhase: I've dumped the smartphone and gone back to a chunky flip phone. I'm still reachable most of the time but it gives me a "sabbath" from the internet/emails 00:39:38 Jim Mogensen: Hope there is a way to get access to the chat.. Can't save as participant in webinar format... 00:40:08 Ryan Missel: As a solo priest, can you share an experience where the weight of responsibility felt particularly heavy? 00:40:14 michael sells: yes! thank you for affirming our need for creativity through film. 00:42:20 Annie Calhoun: I fell into feeling like I was the only one to carry the weight of everything - just needed to let my senior warden and others know…. Give up the concern to those who could really hold this and they can handle it 00:43:22 Rev Wendy Huber: We are in a patch of relocations of key volunteers and deaths. People are in big nostalgia places!! 00:49:01 Peggy Lo: Trusting is hard! Especially since I know that they're tired and navigating their own transitions. At the same time, I'm recognizing the need/importance of sharing the weight. My spiritual director just encouraged me to sit with what feeling disappointed and discouraged is saying to me. 00:51:27 Peggy Lo: She also encouraged me to recognize and celebrate and talk about the "wins." 00:52:27 Mark Wilkinson: A wise facilitator for strategic planning said “Take your victories where you find them.” Celebrate them. 00:53:40 Joe Swimmer: For those who have to leave us early, thanks for joining today. The conversation will continue a bit longer. Please post questions and comments in the CHAT feature. The workshop is being recorded and will be available in the next day. If registered, you will receive a link to the recording and materials. You will also find it in our Workshop Library at: https://episcopalparishes.org/digital-workshop-library/ Thanks, again, to our panel for sharing their time and helping us understand the demands of serving as a solo priest today. We hope you found this a useful conversation. There are additional digital workshops on stewardship, building maintenance, security, finance, and communications coming up in the next month. We hope you join us as you are available. You can see a list here: www.episcopalparishes.org/upcoming-workshops/ More workshops are added regularly. 00:54:10 Rev Wendy Huber: Love love nostalgia and story— great lens!! 00:55:43 Mark Wilkinson: If the story you were told when you were called doesn’t seem to be in alignment with what you are experiencing a great resource is the Holy Cow survey. I’ve found this helpful in finding some underlying stressors that were present. The diocese of Texas has all parishes in search use this so that the incoming rector and the parish are clear about their real story. This really helps with the nostalgia issue. 00:56:12 michael sells: ive been thinking the older people may need a place to grieve about the past they loved 00:56:51 Dawn Mitchell: A drawback to HC is that it is expensive. Not all congregations can afford it- especially if they are small. 00:56:57 Shaun Joynt: I like your point about the older folks @Michael 00:57:48 Matt Overturf: Yes!! Full time single dad here and this resonates so much. Balancing it all can be so hard. Trying to cultivate rest is a challenge. 00:58:25 Charles Graves: I’m all about helping a congregation to feel inspired, excited and hopeful about a future vision that God is dreaming in them. That helps to free folks of the nostalgia when they see an exciting future ahead. 00:58:30 Jim Mogensen: Laity have all those obligations as well... 01:08:36 Peggy Newby: Sr. Warden at parish with no priest (over a year already). Congregation not interested in part-time or shared priest. Reality sometimes takes a long time to sink in. 01:09:33 Jim Mogensen: Macedonian Initiative so that larger congregations help smaller congregations or others under pressure - like Paul 01:10:20 Joe Swimmer: Many thanks to everyone for joining us today. Hope you found this conversation inspiring and helpful. And, a special thanks to our panel.

We look forward to welcoming you to another digital workshop soon (www.episcopalparishes.org/upcoming-workshops). And, do let us know if you have ideas for additional content - send an e-mail to info@episcopalparishes.org 01:10:39 Rev Wendy Huber: Thank you to all