00:16:13 Episcopal Parish Network: Good afternoon and welcome! Thanks for joining us for this conversation about reimagining parish and cathedral structures to meet the evolving needs of the community today. EPN is pleased to host this conversation. We invite you to put your name, parish name, and location in the CHAT for the benefit of our panelists. 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. 00:16:39 Episcopal Parish Network: 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. This session will last for about an hour. If you have to 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 emailing us at info@episcopalparishes.org or https://episcopalparishes.org/epn-members. 00:17:57 Episcopal Parish Network: For those who just joined, we're glad you're here. Please post your questions or comments in the CHAT. Also, if you just joined, please post your name and parish/location in the CHAT! 00:22:40 Julie Butcher: Julie Butcher, Deacon., Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Wales, FL 00:23:31 Holy Family Church: Horace ward, holy family, Miami gardens, fl 00:23:55 Bruce Cory: Bruce W. Cory, transitional deacon, St. John's, Corbin, KY 00:23:59 Lauren Lukason: Lauren Lukason, Priest-in-Charge, Collaboration of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Foxborough, MA & Trinity Episcopal Church, Wrentham MA 00:25:29 Robin Kozlowski: Revs. Joe & Robin Kozlowski, Genesee Regional Initiative in the Diocese of Western New York. 00:26:18 Edna Johnston: Edna Johnston, The Episcopal Project, Richmond, VA 00:26:42 Angela Rae: Hello! Angela Rae, Senior Warden at Church of the Epiphany in San Carlos, CA (on Ohlone land) 00:26:53 Sean Leonard: Sean Leonard St. Dunstan's Dover 00:27:15 The Rev Maureen-Elizabeth Hagen: Maureen Hagen, Dioceses of Oregon and Virginia 00:27:26 Cara Modisett: Cara Modisett, associate rector, Trinity Staunton in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia 00:27:37 Tina Pickering: Greetings! Tina Pickering, Canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Church of New Hampshire 00:28:19 Mary Jeffers: Mary Jeffers Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina 00:34:44 Rev. Mary Blessing: Rev. Mary B. Blessing, Diocese of El Camino Real, California living in Santa Clara Co (Silicon Valley) semi-retired serving multiple congregations in El Camino and and Diocese of California. Lead member of Social Justice Committee 00:50:36 Deanna K Anderson: Does either group do smaller home church for fellowship and study? 00:51:12 Rev. Mary Blessing: For Good Shepherd/The Hill: It looks like you are in a transitional period since Rev. Stanford is called "Acting Rector". Can you help us understand your process for having a search process that gives full perspectives from both congregations. 00:54:18 Rev. Mary Blessing: I absolutely agree with Melinda's description of how every PERSON is called with gifts to contribute and none of us should think the ordained ministers "do it all". Challenge for Episcopal Church is convincing those who feel called to be ordained to let go of "doing it all" and being the "final decider". 00:54:26 Episcopal Parish Network: As a reminder, please post questions and comments in the CHAT feature. The panel will get to them as time permits. Thanks again for joining. 00:57:00 Liz Wilcox: Does St. Marks offer the Eucharist every Sunday? Do lay leaders offer reserve sacrament? Do they require Diocesan education? Do you resort to morning prayer on occasion? 00:57:05 Jeremy Godwin: How did the leadership of St. Mark’s and the Cathedral “sell” the idea of Erie Episcopal to the respective congregations? (Or: how did you generate buy in?) 00:59:58 Jenny Holden: Have there been activities that have been particularly useful or really not useful in getting open and fruitful conversations happen between the two groups in each partnership (e.g. Outreach groups in Erie Episcopal, vestry members from different location at Good Shepherd/The Hill)? 00:59:59 Jeremy Godwin: Thanks. Very helpful. 01:05:49 Episcopal Parish Network: 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. 01:06:01 Episcopal Parish Network: The workshop is being recorded and will be available in the next day or two. You will receive a link to the recording and other materials when they post to our Workshop Library at: https://episcopalparishes.org/digital-workshop-library/ Thanks, again, to our panel for sharing this time and educating us on reimagining parish and cathedral structures to meet the evolving needs of the community. We hope you found this a useful conversation. Thanks to our partners at The Church of the Good Shepherd & The Hill (Austin, TX) and The Episcopal Collaboration (Erie, PA) for participating in this important conversation. 01:06:12 Episcopal Parish Network: There are additional digital workshops on liturgy, technology, finances, communication, and current affairs coming up in the next few months. We hope you join us as you are available. You can see a list of upcoming workshops here: www.episcopalparishes.org/upcoming-workshops/ More workshops are added regularly. We also hope to see you at our 2026 Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, March 3-6. Keep an eye out on our website for more information: https://episcopalparishes.org/ 01:10:36 Rev. Mary Blessing: Question: As you were creating Erie Episcopal was there strong leadership from your Bishop and/or Cathedral Dean and your diocesan leadership? 01:11:12 Lauren Lukason: This has been SO HELPFUL with some great challenges for us to wrestle with as well as some affirmations that were so good to hear. Thank you! 01:14:12 Rev. Mary Blessing: H 01:15:28 Rev. Mary Blessing: THANK YOU Dean Melinda for your enthusiastic response. SOOOOO grateful N. W. Pennsylvania had this vision and the talent/dedication of you, Carly Rowe and other strong leaders to make it happen! 01:15:43 Episcopal Parish Network: Thank you so much, everyone! 01:15:51 Episcopal Parish Network: And thank you all for attending! 01:15:53 Cara Modisett: Thank you!