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Search Committee Members:
Steve Ezell, Chair
steve.ezell@landcorp.com
H: 292-8683
B: 292-1040, ext. 1
Charlie Cook III, Junior Warden
charlie.cook@arlaw.com
H: 383-5415
B: 259-1456
Susan Dupont
susan.dupont@comcast.net
H: 298-2711
Paul Elledge
w.paul.elledge@vanderbilt.edu
H: 297-1005
David Graves
dgraves@gravesimport.com
H: 383-7014
Jay Graves
jaybna@comcast.net
H: 279-8254
B: 399-9931, ext. 223
Michael Hasty
michaelhasty@comcst.net
H: 370-8220
Gary Kimball III
gkimball7@comcast.net
H: 665-8998
B: 401-6441
C: 480-9900
Jamie Kyne
jamiekyne@comcast.net
H: 665-2663
Julia Landstreet
frystreet@aol.com
H: 297-9628
B: 383-9400
Jere Myers
jeremyers@comcast.net
H: 353-0901
Sandy Sanders
danssanderiii@comcast.net
H: 352-6683
B: 340-4731
Katy Varney
kvarney@mpf.com
H: 297-9254
B: 259-4000
Scott Viebranz
viebranz@comcast.net
H: 783-1856
B: 320-9800, ext. 1274
David Wilson
davidkeywilson@yahoo.com
H: 292-5309
B: 279-0088
Tyler Yarbro
tyleryarbro@jis.nashville.gov
H: 385-5715
B: 880-3703
Pete Stringer, Senior Warden and
Ex Offico Member
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SEARCH COMMITTEE NOTES --
KEEPING YOU INFORMED!
Click
HERE to access
Rector/Dean
Nomination Form.
Thank you.
April 8, 2008
CHRIST CHURCH
CATHEDRAL'S SEARCH FOR A NEW DEAN
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS...
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What is a Search Committee?
The Search Committee is a representative group of parishioners
appointed by the Cathedral Vestry operating under a charge from that
body to coordinate a comprehensive search for the person God is
calling to become the next Rector and Dean of Christ Church
Cathedral.
The Committee's tasks include collection of extensive data on
the parish's perceptions of itself, its aspirations, its concerns
and its expectation of our next Dean. Information gathered
from parishioners by a variety of means will be processed by the
Committee and developed into a Parish Profile for the benefit of
candidates for the Deanship, and for the instruction and guidance of
Committee members seeking the best match between Cathedral
requirements and candidate credentials.
In due course, the Committee will evaluate applications, interview
selected candidates on their home turf and locally, and ultimately
recommend one name to the Vestry, which then decides whether to
issue a call.
The Search Committee is keenly aware of our dependence upon, and
responsibility to, the parish, and of our need to maintain a
transparency of process insofar as respect for confidentiality
permits. We humbly ask for parishioners' continued prayers,
views, counsel, cooperation and support, as together we seek to
discern God's will for our Cathedral leadership.
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Who is on the Search
Committee?
Members of the Committee represent many different constituencies
of Cathedral life and a wide range of ages, backgrounds,
occupations, expertise, length of parish membership, and
particularly experience at the Cathedral.
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How can I contribute to the
search process?
The committee is eager to hear from all parishioners. To
that end, it will host up to three "Town Hall" meetings on three
consecutive Sundays at the Church School hour, during which time
parishioners will be invited to offer their views on various aspects
of parish life and on how our next Rector/Dean may address them.
Additionally, members of the Search Committee will conduct a random
telephone survey of a representative number of parishioners.
Finally, all parishioners will be urged to complete a questionnaire
about the state, direction and objectives of the Cathedral, and
about the human, pastoral, theological, homiletic and liturgical
ideas to be modeled in our next Rector/Dean.
Congregants are, of course, encouraged to contact individual members
of the Committee with opinions and advice.
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When will the Cathedral have a
new Rector/Dean?
The Committee estimates that our process will take up to a year,
perhaps slightly longer. We intend to move as expeditiously as
possible without sacrificing the need for thoroughness in
representing and preparing the parish, and for prayerful
deliberation in evaluating candidates.
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Who is leading the Cathedral
now?
The Reverend Canon Anne Stevenson is our Priest-in-Charge while
the search proceeds. She is ably assisted by the Reverend
Canon Geoffrey Butcher and the Reverend Canon Matthew Corkern and a
number of priest associates, and by the Wardens and Vestry.
Our large administrative and clerical staff continues to keep
the shop running smoothly day by day.
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Does the Bishop have a role in
the Cathedral's search for a new Rector/Dean?
Yes. The Bishop must approve the Cathedral's choice of its
next Dean.
As consultant to the Search Committee, Bishop Bauerschmidt has
appointed his Canon to the Ordinary, the Reverend Pamela Snare, who
has carefully explained to the Vestry and to the Committee the steps
we are expected to follow in searching for our new Rector/Dean.
Candidates selected for close investigation by the Committee will be
vetted by the Bishop's office before contact is initiated, and
finalists will meet with the Bishop on their visits to Nashville.
Relations between the Search Committee and the Bishop and his staff
are now, and expected to remain, cordial and mutually complementary.
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Where does the Committee find
candidates for the Deanship?
A primary source is the Church Deployment Office, a unit of the
national church that maintains files of employment opportunities and
of priests seeking new positions, and, when asked, produces
computer-generated matches between them. The Search Committee
will request the assistance of the CDO and then follow up with
plausible candidates.
Additionally, our Bishop will probably provide names to the
Committee, as will priests in our diocese and elsewhere.
Candidates may nominate themselves in response to advertisements in
Episcopal publications.
And, in due course, the Committee will solicit nominations from
Cathedral parishioners, on a form to be provided.
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Why are candidates' names
confidential?
Until very late in the search process, candidates' names must
remain confidential within the Search Committee. This is less
a matter of secrecy than of privacy. Most, if not all, of our
candidates will be employed in other parishes where disclosure of
their candidacies might be embarrassing, disruptive, even damaging.
While respecting the privacy concerns of our candidates, the Search
Committee will keep the parish informed at every step of our general
progress.
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What are the costs of
searching?
The Vestry has allocated a modest budget to the Search Committee
to cover the costs of advertising, of selected members' travel to
the parishes of finalists and/or their travel to Nashville, and of
administrative tasks.
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Can Cathedral clergy be
candidates for the Deanship?
No. Like many others, our diocese forbids current
clergypersons employed at the Cathedral from becoming candidates for
the next Deanship.
How will we be informed of the
Search Committee's progress?
The Search Committee will provide appropriate updates in the
weekly Cathedral bulletin, in the Cornerstone newsletter and in a
link devoted to the search on the Cathedral website. Of
course, Committee members will make themselves available to
parishioners for questions and discussion.
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