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88th and 89th Combined Journal - Volume II
JOURNAL OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION AND THE EIGHTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, SC OCTOBER 15–16, 2010 ~ St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church, Aiken, SC co-hosted by St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, Aiken, SC OCTOBER 22, 2011 CONTENTS Click on title of item to jump to that page in the document. Organizational Chart of the Diocese 1 2010 & 2011 Diocesan Executive Council Directory 2 Convocations of the Diocese 3 Convocation Map 7 Official Clergy List & Directory 8 2010 & 2011 Lay Delegates and Alternates to Convention 33 2010 & 2011 Official Roll of Clergy 46 2010 & 2011 Clergy in Order of Canonical Residence 48 Parishes and Missions 57 2010 Journal of the Convention 58 2010 Standing Resolutions 70 2010 Convention Sermon by the Bishop 71 2010 Address by the Bishop 76 2011 Journal of the Convention 84 2011 Address by the Bishop 96 2010 & 2011 Official Acts of Bishop Waldo, Duvall and Harris 108 2010 & 2011 Ordinations and Letters Dimissory 112 2010 & 2011 Canonical Consents 113 2010 & 2011 Bishop’s Journal 114 2010 & 2011 Clergy Submitting Non-parochial Reports 121 2010 & 2011 Necrology 122 2010 & 2011 Parishes and Missions, with Officers 124 2010 & 2011 Actions of Diocesan Executive Council 156 2009 & 2010 Financial Statistics of the Diocese 158 2009 & 2010 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions 164 2011 Constitution and Canons 168 2010 & 2011 Clergy Transitions 212 2010 & 2011 Postulants and Candidates for Holy Orders 214 Structure of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina The Commission on Ministry Chair: Dr. Norah Grimball Diocesan Staff Liasion: The Rev. Canon d’Rue Hazel The Commission on Congregations Chair: Mr. Ned Badgett The Rev. Mike Schnatterly DIOCESAN CONVENTION Diocesan Staff Liasion: The Rev. Canon d’Rue Hazel The Commission on Convocations Co-Chairs: The Rev. Sally Franklin The Rev. Tula Henson Diocesan Staff Liasion: Canon Julie Price DEC Executive Committee The Commission on the Diocese DEC BISHOP and Strategic Visioning Committee Co-Chairs: The Rev. Harrison McLeod Mr. Rusty Miller Chair: Mr. Bill Thomason Diocesan Staff Liasion: Canon Julie Price The Episcopal Church & National Concerns Co-Chairs: The Rev. Mike Flanagan The Rev. Joseph Smith Diocesan Staff Liasion: Ms. Mary Weston Commission on the Anglican Communion & International Concerns Chair: The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo Co-Chair: The Rev. Furman Buchanan Diocesan Staff Liasion: Ms. Mary Weston DIOCESAN STAFF Deployed in Support of the Comissions and Convocations MIDLANDS PIEDMONT Dean: The Rev. Ned Morris Lay Warden: Mr. Larry Moore CATAWBA Dean: The Rev. Rick Hanners Lay Warden: Mr.David Claytor Dean: The Rev. Sally Johnston Lay Warden: Mr. Hampton Saussy GRAVATT FOOTHILLS Dean: The Rev. Geoff Taylor Dean: The Rev. Leslie Drake Lay Warden: Ms. Mary Anne Park Lay Warden: Mr. Milton Bates 2010 & 2011 Diocesan Executive Councils The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina 2013 The Rev. Furman Buchanan Ms. Suzi Clawson Ms. Melissa Langford The Rev. Harrison McLeod Dr. Rodger Stroup The Rev. Joseph Whitehurst 2012 The Rev. Sally Franklin The Rev. Trey Garland The Rev. Joseph Smith Mr. Ned Badgett Mr. Bill Thomason Dr. Norah Grimball 2011 The Rev. Rob Brown Ms. Beth Hendrix The Rev. Tula Henson Mr. Brooks Knobel Mr. Rusty Miller The Rev. John Nieman 2010 The Rev. Mike Flanagan The Rev. Deedie Phillips-Marshall The Rev. Emmanuel Mercer Mr. Herbert Bynoe Mr. Robert Clawson Mrs. Mary Anne Park Ex-Officio The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo Mrs. Leslie Buzzell Mr. Belton T. Zeigler Mrs. Sarah Montgomery The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr. Page 2 Convocations of the Diocese 2010 MIDLANDS CONVOCATION * The Rev. Charles Davis, Jr., Dean Ms. Sandy Tracey, Lay Warden Batesburg, St. Paul's (unorganized) Camden, Grace Cayce, All Saints’ Chapin, St Francis of Assisi Columbia, Church of the Cross Church of the Good Shepherd St. David’s St. John’s St. Simon & St Jude St. Luke’s St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields St. Mary’s St. Michael & All Angels’ St. Timothy’s Trinity Cathedral Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Sill Hopes (unorganized) Eastover, St. Thomas’ Hopkins, St. John’s Jenkinsville, St. Barnabas’ Lexington, St. Alban’s Ridgeway, St. Stephen’s Winnsboro, St. John’s Newberry, St. Luke's The Rev. Alan Leonard, Dean Mr. Ray Cannon, Lay Warden PIEDMONT CONVOCATION Boiling Springs, St. Margaret’s Gaffney, Incarnation Glenn Springs, Calvary Spartanburg, Advent Epiphany St. Christopher’s St. Matthew’s Union, Nativity * Parish Page 3 (Convocations of the Diocese 2010, cont’d) FOOTHILLS CONVOCATION * * * * * * * The Rev. Jack Hardaway, Dean Ms. Alice Hill, Lay Warden Anderson, Grace Church Easely, St Michael's Greenville, Christ Church Redeemer St. Francis’ St. Andrew’s St. James’ St. Peter’s St. Philip’s Greer, Good Shepherd Simpsonville, Holy Cross Laurens, Epiphany Clinton, All Saints’ Clemson, Holy Trinity Seneca, Ascension Anderson, St. George’s The Rev. Alice Haynes, Dean Ms. Bonnie Orr, Lay Warden CATAWBA CONVOCATION * * * * Chester, St. Mark's Fort Mill, St. Paul's Great Falls, St. Peter's Lancaster, Christ Church Rock Hill, Our Saviour St. Matthias’ York, Good Shepherd The Rev. Joseph Whitehurst, Dean Ms. Kathie Fowler, Lay Warden GRAVATT CONVOCATION Abbeville, Trinity Church Aiken, St. Thaddeus’ Aiken, St. Augustine of Canterbury Beech Island, All Saints’ Graniteville, St. Paul’s Greenwood, Resurrection North Augusta, St. Bartholomew’s CHURCH OF THE RIDGE: Edgefield, Trinity Ridge Spring, Grace Trenton, Our Savior * Parish Page 4 Convocations of the Diocese 2011 MIDLANDS CONVOCATION * The Rev. Sally Johnston, Dean Ms. Sandy Tracey, Lay Warden Batesburg, St. Paul's (unorganized) Camden, Grace Cayce, All Saints’ Chapin, St Francis of Assisi Columbia, Church of the Cross Church of the Good Shepherd St. David’s St. John’s St. Simon & St Jude St. Luke’s St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields St. Mary’s St. Michael & All Angels’ St. Timothy’s Trinity Cathedral Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Sill Hopes (unorganized) Eastover, St. Thomas’ Hopkins, St. John’s Jenkinsville, St. Barnabas’ Lexington, St. Alban’s Ridgeway, St. Stephen’s Winnsboro, St. John’s Newberry, St. Luke's The Rev. Alan Leonard, Dean Mr. Ray Cannon, Lay Warden PIEDMONT CONVOCATION Boiling Springs, St. Margaret’s Gaffney, Incarnation Glenn Springs, Calvary Spartanburg, Advent Epiphany St. Christopher’s St. Matthew’s Union, Nativity * Parish Page 5 (Convocations of the Diocese 2011, cont’d) FOOTHILLS CONVOCATION * * * * * * * The Rev. Jack Hardaway, Dean Ms. Alice Hill, Lay Warden Anderson, Grace Church Easely, St Michael's Greenville, Christ Church Redeemer St. Francis’ St. Andrew’s St. James’ St. Peter’s St. Philip’s Greer, Good Shepherd Simpsonville, Holy Cross Laurens, Epiphany Clinton, All Saints’ Clemson, Holy Trinity Seneca, Ascension Anderson, St. George’s CATAWBA CONVOCATION * * * * The Rev. Rick Hanners, Dean Ms. Bonnie Orr, Lay Warden Chester, St. Mark's Fort Mill, St. Paul's Great Falls, St. Peter's Lancaster, Christ Church Rock Hill, Our Saviour St. Matthias’ York, Good Shepherd The Rev. Leslie Drake, Dean Ms. Kathie Fowler, Lay Warden GRAVATT CONVOCATION Abbeville, Trinity Church Aiken, St. Thaddeus’ Aiken, St. Augustine of Canterbury Beech Island, All Saints’ Graniteville, St. Paul’s Greenwood, Resurrection North Augusta, St. Bartholomew’s CHURCH OF THE RIDGE: Edgefield, Trinity Ridge Spring, Grace Trenton, Our Savior * Parish Page 6 Greer Good Shepherd GREENVILLE Gaffney Incarnation NEWBERRY Newberry St. Luke's YORK Jenkinsville St. Barnabas Winnsboro St. John's Ridgeway St. Stephen's FAIRFIELD Great Falls St. Peter's Chester St. Mark's CHESTER Fort Mill York St. Paul's Good Shepherd Rock Hill York Place Our Saviour Piedmont Convocation Boiling Springs St. Margaret's SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE Laurens Epiphany Simpsonville Holy Cross LAURENS Clinton All Saints Union Nativity Greenville Spartanburg Christ Church PICKENS Advent Christ Church School Epiphany Easley St. Christopher's St. Michael's Redeemer St. Andrew's St. Matthew's St. James Glenn Springs St. Peter's Calvary UNION St. Philip's Clemson Holy Trinity Foothills Convocation OCONEE Seneca Ascension ANDERSON Anderson Grace St. George's ABBEVILLE Gravatt Convocation Beech Island All Saints Catawba Convocation Lancaster Christ Church LANCASTER KERSHAW Camden Grace Midlands Convocation Abbeville RICHLAND GREENWOOD Trinity Greenwood Chapin Resurrection Columbia St. Francis of Assisi Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Still Hopes Irmo SALUDA St. Simon & St. Jude Church of the Cross Good Shepherd Lexington Heathwood Hall School MCCORMICK Ridge Spring St. Alban's St. David's Grace Eastover St. John's Hopkins Batesburg Cayce St. Luke's St. John's St. Thomas St. Paul's All Saints EDGEFIELD St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Edgefield St. Mary's LEXINGTON St. Trinity Michael and All Angels Trenton St. Timothy's AIKEN Our Saviour Trinity Cathedral Aiken Bishop Gravatt Center Graniteville St. Augustine of Canterbury St. Thaddeus St. Paul's Mead Hall School North Augusta St. Bartholomew's The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina Th e Al e x an d e r D io ce s a n Ho u se 1115 Marion Street • Columbia, SC 29201 • (803) 771-7800 • www.edusc.org The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo, Bishop “Serving Christ, not Only with our Lips, but in our Lives” Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Lay delegates and alternates to convention Present at the convening of the 88th Annual Convention on October 16, 2010 Catawba Convocation Robert Horton Maggie McGill Nick Ross Andrew Vorder Bruegge Jim Welsh Elizabeth Bradford Phillips Norment Rick Norment Deborah Shiflet John Cox Lea Gantt Wood Caldwell Gene Meyer Carol Genest Chris Hage Lizann Lutz Becky Traynor Jeanie Yelton Mike Yelton Robert Horton Maggie McGill Nick Ross Christ Church, Lancaster Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Church of the Good Shepherd, York Church of the Good Shepherd, York Church of the Good Shepherd, York Church of the Good Shepherd, York St. Mark's, Chester St. Mark's, Chester St. Matthias, Rock Hill St. Matthias, Rock Hill St. Paul's, Fort Mill St. Paul's, Fort Mill St. Paul's, Fort Mill St. Paul's, Fort Mill St. Peter's, Great Falls St. Peter's, Great Falls Christ Church, Lancaster Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Foothills Convocation Dale Rains JoAnne Rains Milton Bates Ted Hassold Ashley Reynolds Baker Wyche Bob Andrews Donnie Davenport Lou Leffler Pam Whitaker Helen Atwood Marie Milam David Doscher All Saints', Clinton All Saints', Clinton Christ Church, Greenville Christ Church, Greenville Christ Church, Greenville Christ Church, Greenville Church of the Ascension, Seneca Church of the Ascension, Seneca Church of the Ascension, Seneca Church of the Ascension, Seneca Church of the Epiphany, Laurens Church of the Epiphany, Laurens Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer Page 33 (Foothills cont’d) Alice Brenda Karl Meg Carol Steve Melissa Lyn Barbara Al Clara Louise Fred Sue Kevin Beth Wendy Betty Dean Dan Sandra Dan Bertha Bill Janet Royce Ann Bob Maridell Robert Tunkie Donna Beck John Donice Mallorie Hill Hill Moore Coffey Hallman Webb Langford Merchant Scott Sloan Clarkson Tajuddin Whitmire Whitmire Hughes Kunkel Longo Snowden Harbert Hunt Kelley Tollison Sanchez Sanchez Atkins Woody Loomis Loomis Pinkston Stokes Jones Sullivan Wagoner Martin Morrison Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer Church of the Redeemer, Greenville Church of the Redeemer, Greenville Church of the Redeemer, Greenville Grace Church, Anderson Grace Church, Anderson Grace Church, Anderson Grace Church, Anderson Holy Cross, Simpsonville Holy Cross, Simpsonville Holy Cross, Simpsonville Holy Cross, Simpsonville Holy Trinity, Clemson Holy Trinity, Clemson Holy Trinity, Clemson Holy Trinity, Clemson St. Andrew's, Greenville St. Andrew's, Greenville St. Andrew's, Greenville St. Andrew's, Greenville St. George's, Anderson St. George's, Anderson St. James, Greenville St. James, Greenville St. Michael's, Easley St. Michael's, Easley St. Michael's, Easley St. Michael's, Easley St. Peter's, Greenville St. Peter's, Greenville St. Peter's, Greenville St. Philip's, Greenville St. Philip's, Greenville Page 34 Gravatt Convocation Everett Summerall Cynthia Waddell Barbara Brock Carl Brock Allen Hughes Chuck McDonnell Liz Kornaus Lovick Mims Carol Rhoads Kathie Stallworth Larry Vann Maynard Watson Richard Krajewski Tom Williams Meredith Holodak Bill Lesshafft Carol Osteen Mary Anne Park Sandra McGee Martha Melton Amy O’Rourke Sandra Bell Kathie Fowler Jennifer Huff Bob McClure Lewis Ashely Cynthia Jefferies All Saints', Beech Island All Saints', Beech Island Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood Church of the Ridge, Trenton Church of the Ridge, Trenton Church of the Ridge, Trenton Church of the Ridge, Trenton Church of the Ridge, Trenton Church of the Ridge, Trenton St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken St. Bartholomew's, N. Augusta St. Bartholomew's, N. Augusta St. Bartholomew's, N. Augusta St. Bartholomew's, N. Augusta St. Paul's, Graniteville St. Paul's, Graniteville St. Paul's, Graniteville St. Thaddeus, Aiken St. Thaddeus, Aiken St. Thaddeus, Aiken St. Thaddeus, Aiken Trinity Church, Abbeville Trinity Church, Abbeville Midlands Convocation Mark Gilliam Regina Ratterree Candy Sanders M. L. Tanner Todd Bridge Suzi Clawson Wendy Hamilton Hampton Saussy Bill Willoughby Jim Burns George Lane Margie Lane Howard Wallace Cheryl Banks All Saints', Cayce All Saints', Cayce All Saints', Cayce All Saints', Cayce Church of the Cross, Columbia Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Grace Church, Camden Grace Church, Camden Grace Church, Camden Grace Church, Camden St. Alban's, Lexington Page 35 (Midlands cont’d) Dianna Priscilla Bobby Gordon Harriet Bill Royal Joe Calvin Carl Susie Sandy Davis Rodger Marion Dana Jim Bud Rita Sandra Katherine Logan Brenda Rudy Francis DeNell Corliss Ron Theresa Charles Mary Sue Bob Bruce Gwen Jack Jane Jody Sue Mitch Tom Jack Barefoot Brabham Jones Pauling Pauling Elder Roseberry Smoak Yates Saalbach Spencer Whiting Bourne Stroup Swain Turner Fowles McCaskill McCaskill Tracey Doty Doty Miller Canzater Goodwin Hickman Wise Halfacre Halfacre Poole Poole Askins Carter Geidel Myers Bleckley Davidson Netzloff Wyatt Cobb Evans St. Alban's, Lexington St. Alban's, Lexington St. Alban's, Lexington St. Barnabas, Jenkinsville St. Barnabas, Jenkinsville St. David's, Columbia St. David's, Columbia St. David's, Columbia St. David's, Columbia St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin St. John's, Columbia St. John's, Columbia St. John's, Columbia St. John's, Columbia St. John's, Hopkins St. John's, Hopkins St. John's, Hopkins St. John's, Hopkins St. John's, Winnsboro St. John's, Winnsboro St. John's, Winnsboro St. Luke's, Columbia St. Luke's, Columbia St. Luke's, Columbia St. Luke's, Columbia St. Luke's, Newberry St. Luke's, Newberry St. Luke's, Newberry St. Luke's, Newberry St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Columbia St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Columbia St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Columbia St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Columbia St. Mary's, Columbia St. Mary's, Columbia St. Mary's, Columbia St. Mary's, Columbia St. Michael & All Angels', Columbia St. Michael & All Angels', Columbia Page 36 (Midlands cont’d) Lonnie Sherwood Rosalind Elizabeth Donna Blount Donna JoAnne Calvin Shay Elizabeth Linda Byrd Stacey Bill Mary Nela Brett Curtis Rosier Williams Funk McCormick Newton Shepard Guess Palmer Woodard Woodard Chestnut Lucas Matsui Sandberg Belser Edgar Frantz Ott Piedmont Convocation Claude Finney Sidney Shands John Coleman John Dargan Alan Duesterhaus Ellen Richardson Malinda Tulloh Craig Williams Jane Spann Walters Wofford Frank Barnwell Tera Barnwell Tonja Blackwell Kathryn Gough Peggy Graham Mitch Slade Ted Burnett Adam Regonie Shawn Sheppard Caroline Smoogen Gary Horvath Cheryl Neff Norman Neff St. Michael & All Angels', Columbia St. Michael & All Angels', Columbia St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo St. Stephen's, Ridgeway St. Stephen's, Ridgeway St. Thomas, Eastover St. Thomas, Eastover St. Timothy's, Columbia St. Timothy's, Columbia St. Timothy's, Columbia St. Timothy's, Columbia Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Calvary Church, Glenn Springs Calvary Church, Glenn Springs Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Church of the Epiphany, Spartanburg Church of the Epiphany, Spartanburg Church of the Incarnation, Gaffney Church of the Incarnation, Gaffney Church of the Incarnation, Gaffney Church of the Nativity, Union St. Christopher's, Spartanburg St. Christopher's, Spartanburg St. Margaret's, Boiling Springs St. Margaret's, Boiling Springs St. Margaret's, Boiling Springs St. Margaret's, Boiling Springs St. Matthew's, Spartanburg St. Matthew's, Spartanburg St. Matthew's, Spartanburg Page 37 Diocesan Executive Council Belton Zeigler Ned Badgett Herbert Bynoe Norah Grimball Beth Hendrix Brooks Knobel Rusty Miller Bill Thomason Robert Clawson Leslie Buzzell Chancellor Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council Diocesan Executive Council President, Diocesan Executive Council Treasurer General Convention Deputies Scooty Burch Angela Daniel General Convention Deputy General Convention Deputy Youth Deputies Jessica Taylor Austin Ryan Zachary Cawthorne Sam McGill Katherine DuBose Sam Stricklin Becca Brown Catawba Youth Deputy Foothills Youth Deputy Gravatt Youth Deputy Gravatt Youth Deputy Midlands Youth Deputy Midlands Youth Deputy Piedmont Youth Deputy Page 38 Lay delegates and alternates to convention Present at the convening of the 89th Annual Convention on October 22, 2011 Catawba Convocation: Christ Episcopal Church, Lancaster Robert Horton Tammy Smith Timothy Smith Church of our Saviour, Rock Hill Maggie McGill Barbara Pierce Andrew Vorder Bruegge Jim Welsh Church of the Good Shepherd, York Claire Addison Barbara Wilson Meade Wilson St. Mark’s Church, Chester John Caldwell Elizabeth Claytor St. Paul’s, Fort Mill Susan Campbell Carol Genest Chris Hage Lizann Lutz St. Peter’s, Great Falls H. C. Starnes Jeanette Starnes Foothills Convocation: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Clinton Oliver Roosevelt Christ Church, Greenville Dexter Hagy Bern Mebane Cecil Nelson Baker Wyche Page 39 (Foothills cont’d) Church of the Ascension, Seneca Bob Andrews Dee Mango Pam Whitaker Wayne Gallimore Church of the Epiphany, Laurens Helen Atwood Donna Babineau Bea Carnes Marie Milam Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer David Doscher Alice Hill Joe Knighton Church of the Redeemer, Greenville Meg Coffey Bill Heizer John Helm Steve Webb Grace Episcopal Church, Anderson Melissa Langford Jerry Powell Holy Cross, Simpsonville Gary Dicer Joe Harrison Sarah Swartz Louise Tajaddin Holy Trinity, Clemson Amy Hixon Betty Snowden Mellie Warner St. Andrews, Greenville Adelaide Gantt Debra Morse St. George’s, Anderson Bertha Sanchez Bill Sanchez Page 40 (Foothills cont’d) St. Michael’s, Easley Dick Dobbins Mac McClure Sue McClure Ponda Stone St. Peter’s, Greenville Kathleen Siegel Skip Stephan Beck Sullivan Lynda Tate St. Philip’s, Greenville Marty Mial Mallorie Morrison Gravatt Convocation: All Saints’ Church, Beech Island Diane Brunson Everett Summerall Church of the Ridge, Trenton Liz Kornaus Carolyn Lovell Carol Rhoads Scotty Scott Kathie Stallworth Resurrection, Greenwood Linda Dolny Allen Hughes St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken Jamie Knudsen Dick Krajewski St. Bartholomew’s, North Augusta Molly Campbell Bill Lesshafft Anne Mayer Mary Anne Park Page 41 (Gravatt cont’d) St. Paul’s Church, Graniteville Kay Bradford Sandra McGee Martha Melton Amy O’Rourke St. Thaddeus Church, Aiken Sandra Bell Kathie Fowler Sam McGill David Nichols Trinity Episcopal Church, Abbeville Lewis Ashley Dick Haldeman Midlands Convocation: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Cayce Mickey Owens Regina Ratterree M.L. Tanner Church of the Cross, Columbia Patte Eastman Bell Gayle Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Hampton Saussy Glyn Smith Jim Stuart Layne Waters Grace Episcopal Church, Camden George Lane Margie Lane Tina Lockhart Jim Wiley St. Alban’s, Lexington Dianna Barefoot Craig Giles Bobby Jones Libba Rhoad Page 42 (Midlands cont’d) St. David’s Church, Columbia Bill Elder Ray Hopkins Margi Scotti Calvin Yates St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin Sandy Whiting St. John’s Church, Columbia Rodger Stroup Marion Swain Dana Turner St. John’s, Hopkins Annie Antley John Clarkson Jim Hiott Rita McCaskill St. Luke’s, Columbia Herbert Bynoe Rudy Canzater Tannie Smith St. Luke’s, Newberry Scotty Cain Charles Poole Mary Sue Poole St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Columbia Suzanne Anderson Bruce Carter Martin McWilliams Jack Myers St. Mary’s, Columbia Bob Cole Jackie Cole David Simmons Elizabeth Simmons St. Michael & All Angles’, Columbia Tom Cobb Charles Cook Karl Long Page 43 (Midlands cont’d) St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo Rosalind Funk Beth Hendrix Elizabeth McCormick Marlene Sheard St. Stephen’s, Ridgeway Donna Guess Kathleen Harwood St. Thomas, Eastover Ralph House Calvin Woodard St. Timothy’s Church, Columbia Ann Barton Elizabeth Chestnut Amy Moore Bill Sandberg Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Nela Edgar Brett Frantz Emilie Guignard Wade Stinnette Piedmont Convocation: Advent, Spartanburg John Coleman John Dargan Alan Dusterhous Ted Gage Larry Moore Craig Williams Calvary, Glenn Springs Sidney Shands Epiphany, Spartanburg Twelvia Davis Jane Spann Incarnation, Gaffney Tonja Blackwell Bobby Love Renee McFalls Page 44 (Piedmont cont’d) St. Christopher’s, Spartanburg Jane Johnson Lathrop Mosley St. Margaret’s, Boiling Springs Jerry McDaniel St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg Gary Horvath Norman Neff Cheryl Neff Mary Margaret Richards Page 45 2010 Official Roll of Clergy Present at the convening of the 88th Convention on October 16, 2010 Abdelnour, Mark Anthony Beasley, Nicholas M Blauvelt, Jeremy David Bridgforth, David E Brown, Robert L Buchanan, Furman Lee Bullock, Michael Byrd, Frederick C Cantrell, Joye Quattlebaum Chalmers, Jon David Chassey, George I Cooper, Jeannette Newell Cope, Marie Davis, Johnnie M Davis, Jr., Charles M Drake, Leslie Sargent Duvall, Theodore W. Edwards, J. Lloyd Ervolina, Timothy Flanagan, Michael Patrick Fleischer, Scott Foss, Charles S Franklin, Sarah C. Galloway, Richard Garland, John Gilbert Gonzalez, Alfredo Pedro Gosnell, Linda King Gould, Glenn Griffin, Calvin R Hamilton, Gordon Hanners, Richard E Hardaway, John B Hardaway, Susan Loutitt Haynes, Alice Smith Hazel, Dorothy M Heath, Susan B Henson, Dimitrula Higgins, Teddy John Holmes, Douglas Lloyd Holmes, Rilla Horowitz, Robert A Horvath, Leslie F Johnston, Sarah V Kinyon, Brice W Kirkland, Robert Leonard, H Alan Lyon, James F Malanuk, Patricia Craig Maltby, Leslie Howard McLeod, Harrison Marvin Montgomery, J. Fletcher Morgan , Mamie Elizabeth Morgan, Harold E Morris, J Edward Neuburger, James Edward Nieman, John S Parlier, Susan T Perrin, Susan Elizabeth Petit, Charles D. Phillips Marshall, Carol Anne Pilat, Ann Ferres Pridgen, J Blaney Prinz, Susan Puckett, Douglas A. Purser, J. Philip Quinn, Carolee S. Retzlaff, Georg Riegel, Robert G. Roberts, George Christopher Ruggles, Roxanne Schnatterly, Michael Smith, Joseph Kershaw Stricklin, Paul Eugene Taylor, David Geoffrey Thompson, David F.O. Todd, Margaret H Jennings Tollison, Henry E von Rautenkranz, Linda Sue Waldo, W Andrew Walters, Fred A Weston, English Hopkins Whitehead, Philip H Whitehurst, Joseph Stewart Wight, Susan M Wight, William W Winters, Rhett Y Wiseman, Grant Buchanan Young, Mary Catherine Page 46 2011 Official Roll of Clergy Present at the convening of the 89th Convention on October 22, 2011 Abdelnour, The Rev. Mark Anthony Blauvelt, The Rev. Jeremy David Bolle, The Rev. Stephen M. Brown, The Rev. Robert L. Buchanan, The Rev. Furman Lee Bullock, The Rev. Canon Michael Cantrell, The Rev. Joye Quattlebaum Cantrell Carter, The Rev. Halcott Chalmers, The Rev. Jon David Chiles, The Rev. Robert L. Cole, The Rev. Roy W. Davis, Jr., The Rev. Canon Charles M. Davis, The Rev. Johnnie M. Deaderick, The Rev. Dianna L. DiMarco, The Rev. Thomas E. Drake, The Rev. Leslie Sargent Edwards, The Rev. J. Lloyd Ervolina, The Rev. Timothy Flanagan, The Rev. Michael Patrick Fleischer, The Rev. Scott Foss, The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Franklin, The Rev. Sarah C. Garland, III, The Rev. John Gilbert Gettys, The Rev. Jeannette Newell Gonzalez, The Rev. Alfredo Pedro Gosnell, The Rev. Linda King Gotautas, The Rev. Patricia G. Griffin, The Rev. Calvin R. Hamilton, The Rev. Gordon Hanners, The Rev. Richard E. Hardaway, IV, The Rev. John B. Haynes, The Rev. Alice Smith Hazel, The Rev. Dorothy M. Heath, The Rev. Susan B. Henson, The Rev. Dimitrula Higgins, The Rev. Dr. Teddy John Hipp, Jr., The Rev. Thomas Al Horvath, The Rev. Leslie F. Hultstrand, The Rt. Rev. Donald Maynard Jennings Todd, The Rev. Margaret H. Johnston, The Rev. Sarah V. Kinyon, The Rev. Brice W. Leonard, The Rev. H. Alan Louttit-Hardaway, The Rev. Susan Lyon, IV, The Rev. Dr. James F. Malanuk, The Rev. Patricia Craig Maltby, The Rev. Leslie Howard McLeod, The Rev. Harrison Marvin Montgomery, The Rev. J. Fletcher Morgan, The Rev. Mamie Elizabeth Morgan, III, The Rev. Harold E. Morris, The Rev. J. Edward Muncie, The Rev. Margaret Ann Neuburger, The Rev. James Edward Nieman, The Rev. John S. Parlier, The Rev. Susan T. Petit, The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Phillips Marshall, The Rev. Carol Anne Pilat, the Rev. Ann Ferres Poisson, OSH, Ellen Francis Prinz, The Rev. Dr. Susan Puckett, The Rev. Douglas A. Purser, The Rev. Canon J. Philip Roberts, The Rev. George Christopher Ruggles, The Rev. Roxanne Schnatterly, The Rev. Michael Smith, The Rev. Charles J. Smith, The Rev. Joseph Kershaw Stricklin, The Rev. Paul Eugene Taylor, The Rev. David Geoffrey Tucker, The Rev. Kenneth M. Turbeville, Jr., The Rev. Norman M. Wagner, The Rev. David W. Waldo, The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Walters, The Rev. Fred A. Weston, The Rev. English Hopkins Whiddon, The Rev. Ennis H. Whitehead, The Rev. Dr. Philip H. Whitehurst, The Rev. Joseph Stewart Wight, The Rev. Susan M. Winters, Jr., The Rev. Rhett Y. Wiseman, The Rev. Grant Buchanan Page 47 Clergy in Order of Canonical Residence, 2010 May 22, 2010 Canonical Residence June 28, 1953 June 17, 1958 September 25, 1959 February 15, 1960 December 15, 1962 June 23, 1968 June 29, 1969 June 29, 1969 February 11, 1970 August 15, 1973 December 5,1973 June 29, 1974 July 15, 1974 June 1, 1977 December 2, 1977 August 1, 1978 September 1, 1978 September 1, 1980 November 5,1980 February 17, 1981 March 1, 1981 M arch 1, 1982 January 1, 1983 March 10, 1983 May 31, 1983 June 11, 1983 December 18, 1983 February 1, 1984 June 9, 1984 July 15, 1985 October 7, 1985 October 7, 1985 April 1, 1986 June 2, 1986 June 7, 1986 William Andrew Waldo 1989 Consecrated Eighth Bishop of Upper South Carolina E. Cannon McCreary, Retired Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Retired Robert G. Riegel, Retired G. Milton Crum, Jr., Retired Rhett Y. Winters, Jr., Retired Frederick C. Byrd, Retired David E. Bridgforth, Retired Henry E. Tollison, Jr. Retired Thomas C. Davis, Jr., Retired Robert E. Libbey, Retired Donald E. Chapman, Retired Charles A. Boland, Deacon, Retired Raymond L. Phillips, Jr., Retired Mellie H. Hickey, Retired David A. Fort, Retired E. Hopkins Weston, Retired Philip H. Whitehead, Retired Kenneth Donald, Retired Prescott E. Nead, III Lathrop P. Utley, Retired Clyde L. Ireland, Retired J. Lloyd Edwards Joe D. Mills, Retired George I. Chassey, Retired William W. Wight, Retired James F. Lyon, IV Susan B. Heath James R. Cullipher, III, Retired Elizabeth W. Libbey, Retired William H. Walters, Retired D. Eric Schnaufer, Retired David F. O. Thompson Grahame Butler-Nixon, Retired Terry R. Cobb John A. Brown, Jr. Page 48 Ordination to Priesthood 1954 1959 1955 1952 1950 1969 1970 1970 1958 1970 1956 1963 1978 1962 1944 1961 1954 1975 1954 1955 1975 1960 1960 1970 1984 1984 1971 1985 1970 1971 1971 1960 1973 1987 (Clergy 2010 cont’d) July 9, 1986 June 16, 1987 August 1, 1987 September 30, 1987 October 1, 1987 September 1, 1988 September 1, 1989 December 1, 1989 December 5, 1989 March 1, 1990 May 1, 1990 July 1, 1990 October 1, 1990 February 11, 1991 June 1, 1991 July 1, 1991 September 13, 1991 September 28, 1991 August 1, 1992 August 26, 1992 March 1, 1993 June 12, 1993 April 20, 1994 September 1, 1994 September 6, 1994 September 16, 1994 January 1, 1995 January 1, 1995 February 1, 1995 February 3, 1995 March 30, 1995 October 1, 1995 October 1, 1995 October 18, 1995 November 14, 1995 November 15, 1995 March 6, 1996 May 14, 1996 May 18, 1996 May 21, 1996 July 1, 1996 A. Charles Cannon, Retired David A. Cooling Richard Crozier Thomas P. Davis, Retired William M. Gilfillin, Retired J. Blaney Pridgen, III Richard Cockrell, Retired C. Layne Smith Lennart Pearson, Retired C. Christopher Clements, Retired William F. Carr, Retired Forrest E. Anderson Clay H. Turner, Retired Wayman Henry Kenneth I. Mosser, Retired Douglas A. Puckett W. Babcock Fitch, Retired Steven R. McDonald, Deacon Michael P. Flanagan Dennis L. Smith, Retired William Parker Marks, Retired Sally F. Parrott Robert H. Long Calvin R. Griffin Carolee E. S. Quinn, Deacon Kenneth M. Tucker, Retired Thomas T. Diggs , Retired Charles M. Davis, Sr., Retired Janet Tarbox, Retired Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr., Retired Robert B. Dunbar, Retired Jeffrey W. Meadowcroft James R. Neill, III, Retired Gordon W. Hamilton Herman Harris, Deacon, Retired Susan L. Hardaway Charlotte E. Waldrop, Retired Patricia C. Malanuk Robert Lee Brown John B. Hardaway, IV Joye Q. Cantrell Page 49 1964 1972 1985 1973 1973 1981 1958 1979 1990 1965 1971 1978 1967 1981 1986 1981 1970 1992 1967 1960 1994 1979 1978 1969 1960 1974 1993 1977 1967 1968 1970 1984 1993 1986 1996 1996 1996 1993 (Clergy 2010 cont’d) August 5, 1996 December 31, 1996 February 4, 1997 August 18, 1997 November 4,1997 June 13, 1998 March 22, 1999 May 16, 1999 June 12, 1999 August 1, 1999 August 10, 1999 July 27, 2000 April 1, 2001 June 16, 2001 September 27, 2001 December 11, 2001 February 21, 2002 February 28, 2002 April 17, 2002 September 23, 2002 September 24, 2002 October 2, 2002 December 3, 2002 December 14, 2002 December 14, 2002 January 9, 2003 February 5, 2003 May 5, 2003 May 13, 2003 June 14, 2003 June 14, 2003 July 18, 2003 September 1, 2003 November 17, 2003 November 18, 2003 August 11, 2004 June 28, 2004 February 23, 2004 December 15, 2004 December 15, 2004 March 22, 2005 Robert L. Chiles Charles M. Davis, Jr. David H. Upton, Retired Preston B. Huntley, Jr., Retired Charles S. Foss Mary Moore Roberson Christopher Bryce, Retired Michael A. Bullock Carol Ann M. Phillips B. Wayne Kinyon, Retired J. Fletcher Montgomery Thomas Carson, Retired Peter Hawes, Retired Susan Moore Wight Sue vonRautenkranz, Deacon Laura Dale White Howard Maltby Robert C. Taylor James C. Blanton, Jr. Carolyn H. West, Retired George N. Gray, Jr. Edward G. Meeks Robert Horowitz Dorothy Massey Hazel, Deacon Susan T. Parlier, Deacon Timothy M. Ervolina, Deacon Marilyn Sanders Anna Rilla Holmes Roy W. Cole, Retired Charles D. Petit Robert Hartley Allan Cole, Deacon J. Philip Purser William Thompson Leslie C. Barker James Kelly Workman Richard B. Grimball, Jr. Glenn Hamilton Gould, Retired Caroline Cox Goodkind Sarah Claire Franklin Douglas Llloyd Holmes Page 50 1991 1986 1974 1969 1979 1999 1976 1979 2006 1962 1995 1954 1978 2002 2001 1987 1981 1999 1992 1989 1979 2001 2001 1999 1974 2004 2003 2001 1974 1985 1980 1993 2002 1977 2002 1995 1985 (Clergy 2010, cont’d) May 18, 2005 June 11, 2005 June 11, 2005 August 9, 2005 October 6, 2005 November 1, 2005 January 21, 2006 January 21, 2006 February 1, 2006 March 29, 2006 April , 2006 April 18, 2006 June 13, 2006 June 22, 2006 June 24, 2006 June 24, 2006 September 30, 2006 December 17, 2006 February 28, 2007 May 26, 2007 May 26, 2007 May 26, 2007 July 26, 2007 November 1, 2007 August 7, 2007 February 19, 2008 May 1, 2008 May 17, 2008 October 1, 2008 November 24, 2008 January 22, 2009 February 24, 2009 March 17, 2009 March 17, 2009 March 17, 2009 April 27, 2009 Michael Dean Schnatterly Teddy John Higgins Linda King Gosnell Theodore W. Duvall Georg Retzlaff Alan Leonard Ann Ferres Pilat, Deacon Susan Elizabeth Perrin, Deacon John S. Nieman Alice Smith Haynes Robert Gaillard Kirkland Emmanuel Ato Mercer Sean Joseph LaBat Paul William Greeley Furman Lee Buchanan James Edward Neuburger Nancy Jones Kenney Harold E. Morgan III Mary Catherine Enockson Mark Anthony Abdelnour Joseph Kershaw Smith Joseph Stewart Whitehurst Alfredo Pedro Gonzalez Dimitrula Tula Henson Elizabeth Morgan Paul Eugene Stricklan John Gilbert Garland David Walter Stricker Harrison Marvin McLeod Jeanette Newell Cooper David Geoffrey Taylor Sarah V. Johnston Fred A. Walters, Deacon Margaret Jennings Todd, Deacon Leslie F. Horvath, Deacon Marie Swann Cope Page 51 1989 2006 2006 1990 1980 1996 1987 2005 2002 1999 1999 1979 2007 2008 2006 1978 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2005 1981 1978 2003 1968 1993 2006 2003 2005 2002 Clergy in Order of Canonical Residence, 2011 May 22, 2010 Canonical Residence June 28, 1953 June 17, 1958 September 25, 1959 February 15, 1960 December 15, 1962 June 23, 1968 June 29, 1969 June 29, 1969 February 11, 1970 August 15, 1973 June 29, 1974 July 15, 1974 December 2, 1977 August 1, 1978 September 1, 1978 September 1, 1980 November 5,1980 February 17, 1981 March 1, 1981 M arch 1, 1982 January 1, 1983 March 10, 1983 May 31, 1983 June 11, 1983 December 18, 1983 February 1, 1984 June 9, 1984 July 15, 1985 October 7, 1985 October 7, 1985 April 1, 1986 June 2, 1986 June 7, 1986 July 9, 1986 June 16, 1987 William Andrew Waldo Consecrated Eighth Bishop of Upper South Carolina E. Cannon McCreary, Retired Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Retired Robert G. Riegel, Retired G. Milton Crum, Jr., Retired Rhett Y. Winters, Jr., Retired Frederick C. Byrd, Retired David E. Bridgforth, Retired Henry E. Tollison, Jr. Retired Thomas C. Davis, Jr., Retired Robert E. Libbey, Retired Charles A. Boland, Deacon, Retired Raymond L. Phillips, Jr., Retired David A. Fort, Retired E. Hopkins Weston, Retired Philip H. Whitehead, Retired Kenneth Donald, Retired Prescott E. Nead, III Lathrop P. Utley, Retired Clyde L. Ireland, Retired J. Lloyd Edwards Joe D. Mills, Retired George I. Chassey, Retired William W. Wight, Retired James F. Lyon, IV Susan B. Heath James R. Cullipher, III, Retired Elizabeth W. Libbey, Retired William H. Walters, Retired D. Eric Schnaufer, Retired David F. O. Thompson Grahame Butler-Nixon, Retired Terry R. Cobb John A. Brown, Jr. A. Charles Cannon, Retired David A. Cooling Page 52 1989 Ordination to Priesthood 1954 1959 1955 1952 1950 1969 1970 1970 1958 1970 1963 1962 1944 1961 1954 1975 1954 1955 1975 1960 1960 1970 1984 1984 1971 1985 1970 1971 1971 1960 1973 1987 1964 1972 (Clergy 2011 cont’d) August 1, 1987 September 30, 1987 October 1, 1987 September 1, 1988 September 1, 1989 December 1, 1989 December 5, 1989 March 1, 1990 May 1, 1990 July 1, 1990 October 1, 1990 February 11, 1991 June 1, 1991 July 1, 1991 September 13, 1991 September 28, 1991 August 1, 1992 August 26, 1992 March 1, 1993 June 12, 1993 September 1, 1994 September 6, 1994 September 16, 1994 January 1, 1995 January 1, 1995 February 1, 1995 February 3, 1995 March 30, 1995 October 1, 1995 October 1, 1995 October 18, 1995 November 14, 1995 November 15, 1995 March 6, 1996 May 14, 1996 May 18, 1996 May 21, 1996 July 1, 1996 August 5, 1996 December 31, 1996 February 4, 1997 Richard Crozier Thomas P. Davis, Retired William M. Gilfillin, Retired J. Blaney Pridgen, III, Retired Richard Cockrell, Retired C. Layne Smith Lennart Pearson, Retired C. Christopher Clements, Retired William F. Carr, Retired Forrest E. Anderson Clay H. Turner, Retired Wayman Henry Kenneth I. Mosser, Retired Douglas A. Puckett W. Babcock Fitch, Retired Steven R. McDonald, Deacon Michael P. Flanagan Dennis L. Smith, Retired William Parker Marks, Retired Sally F. Parrott Calvin R. Griffin Carolee E. S. Quinn, Deacon Kenneth M. Tucker, Retired Thomas T. Diggs , Retired Charles M. Davis, Sr., Retired Janet Tarbox, Retired Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr., Retired Robert B. Dunbar, Retired Jeffrey W. Meadowcroft James R. Neill, III, Retired Gordon W. Hamilton Herman Harris, Deacon, Retired Susan L. Hardaway Charlotte E. Waldrop, Retired Patricia C. Malanuk Robert Lee Brown John B. Hardaway, IV Joye Q. Cantrell Robert L. Chiles Charles M. Davis, Jr. David H. Upton, Retired Page 53 1985 1973 1973 1981 1958 1979 1990 1965 1971 1978 1967 1981 1986 1981 1970 1992 1967 1960 1994 1978 1969 1960 1974 1993 1977 1967 1968 1970 1984 1993 1986 1996 1996 1996 1993 1991 1986 1974 (Clergy 2011 cont’d) August 18, 1997 November 4,1997 June 13, 1998 March 22, 1999 May 16, 1999 June 12, 1999 August 1, 1999 August 10, 1999 July 27, 2000 April 1, 2001 June 16, 2001 December 11, 2001 February 21, 2002 February 28, 2002 April 17, 2002 September 24, 2002 October 2, 2002 December 14, 2002 December 14, 2002 January 9, 2003 February 5, 2003 May 5, 2003 May 13, 2003 June 14, 2003 June 14, 2003 September 1, 2003 November 17, 2003 November 18, 2003 August 11, 2004 June 28, 2004 February 23, 2004 December 15, 2004 December 15, 2004 March 22, 2005 May 18, 2005 June 11, 2005 June 11, 2005 October 6, 2005 November 1, 2005 January 21, 2006 January 21, 2006 Preston B. Huntley, Jr., Retired Charles S. Foss, Retired Mary Moore Roberson Christopher Bryce, Retired Michael A. Bullock Carol Ann M. Phillips B. Wayne Kinyon, Retired J. Fletcher Montgomery Thomas Carson, Retired Peter Hawes, Retired Susan Moore Wight Laura Dale White Howard Maltby Robert C. Taylor James C. Blanton, Jr. George N. Gray, Jr. Edward G. Meeks Dorothy Massey Hazel, Deacon Susan T. Parlier, Deacon Timothy M. Ervolina, Deacon Marilyn Sanders Anna Rilla Holmes Roy W. Cole, Retired Charles D. Petit Robert Hartley J. Philip Purser William Thompson Leslie C. Barker James Kelly Workman Richard B. Grimball, Jr. Glenn Hamilton Gould, Retired Caroline Cox Goodkind Sarah Claire Franklin Douglas Llloyd Holmes Michael Dean Schnatterly Teddy John Higgins Linda King Gosnell Georg Retzlaff, Retired Alan Leonard Ann Ferres Pilat, Deacon Susan Elizabeth Perrin, Deacon Page 54 1969 1979 1999 1976 1979 2006 1962 1995 1954 1978 2002 2001 1987 1981 1999 1989 1979 2001 1999 1974 2004 2003 1974 1985 1980 1993 2002 1977 2002 1995 1985 1989 2006 2006 1980 1996 (Clergy 2011 cont’d) February 1, 2006 March 29, 2006 April , 2006 April 18, 2006 June 13, 2006 June 22, 2006 June 24, 2006 June 24, 2006 September 30, 2006 December 17, 2006 May 26, 2007 May 26, 2007 May 26, 2007 July 26, 2007 November 1, 2007 August 7, 2007 February 19, 2008 May 1, 2008 May 17, 2008 October 1, 2008 November 24, 2008 January 22, 2009 February 24, 2009 March 17, 2009 March 17, 2009 March 17, 2009 April 27, 2009 June 25, 2009 June 25, 2009 June 25, 2009 September 10, 2009 December 11, 2009 March 17, 2010 June 3, 2010 June 3, 2010 July 29, 2010 November 4, 2010 November 4, 2010 March 18, 2011 May 21, 2011 May 21, 2011 John S. Nieman Alice Smith Haynes Robert Gaillard Kirkland Emmanuel Ato Mercer Sean Joseph LaBat Paul William Greeley, Retired Furman Lee Buchanan James Edward Neuburger Nancy Jones Kenney Harold E. Morgan III Mark Anthony Abdelnour Joseph Kershaw Smith Joseph Stewart Whitehurst Alfredo Pedro Gonzalez Dimitrula Tula Henson Elizabeth Morgan Paul Eugene Stricklan John Gilbert Garland David Walter Stricker Harrison Marvin McLeod Jeanette Newell Gettys David Geoffrey Taylor Sarah V. Johnston Fred A. Walters, Deacon Margaret Jennings Todd, Deacon Leslie F. Horvath, Deacon Marie Swann Cope Grant B. Wiseman Johnnie M. Davis Jon David Chalmers J. Edward Morris George Christopher Roberts Caldwell Alexander Barron, Retired Manney Carrington Reid, Retired Susan Moore Prinz Roxanne Rugggles Jeremy Blauvelt Scott Fleischer Tommy Hicks Tipton Dianna LaMance Deaderick, Deacon Patricia Marie Gotautas, Deacon Page 55 1987 2005 2002 1999 1999 1979 2007 2008 2006 1978 2008 2008 2008 2008 2005 1981 1978 2003 1968 1993 2006 2003 2005 2002 2001 1997 2007 2001 2009 1971 1951 2011 2010 2008 2002 1992 (Clergy 2011 cont’d) June 1, 2011 June 1, 2011 June 4, 2011 June 4, 2011 September 24, 2011 September 24, 2011 November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 Ellen Francis Poisson Mark Werner Thomas Edgar DiMarco David Christopher Sibley Thomas Al Hipp, Deacon Ennis Whiddon David William Wagner Norman McKeithan Turbeville Thomas Lee Dudley Jane Hostetter, Deacon Page 56 2000 1991 2011 2011 2011 2008 1983 Parishes and Missions in Union with the 85th Convention A.D. 2008 with Dates of Organization or Incorporation (1812) Trinity Cathedral (1826) Christ Church, Greenville (1827) St. John’s, Winnsboro (1830) Grace Church, Camden (1836) Trinity Church, Edgefield (1839) St. Stephen’s, Ridgeway (1842) Trinity Church, Abbeville (1844) St. Thaddeus, Aiken (1846) Church of the Epiphany, Laurens (1846) St. Luke’s, Newberry (1847) Church of the Advent, Spartanburg (1848) Calvary Church, Glenn Springs (1851) Grace Church, Anderson (1855) Good Shepherd, York (1857) St. Mark’s, Chester (1858) St. John’s, Hopkins (1859) Church of the Nativity, Union (1869) Christ Church, Lancaster (1870) Our Saviour, Rock Hill (1871) St. Thomas, Eastover (1871) St. Luke’s, Columbia (1873) Grace Church, Ridge Spring (1876) Church of the Incarnation, Gaffney (1876) Church of the Ascension, Seneca (1878) Our Saviour, Trenton (1883) Good Shepherd, Columbia (1885) St. Paul’s, Graniteville (1889) St. Barnabas, Jenkinsville (1892) St. Timothy’s, Columbia (1892) Resurrection, Greenwood (1894) Epiphany, Spartanburg (1899) Holy Trinity, Clemson (1900) St. Andrew’s, Greenville (1904) St. James, Greenville (1912) St. John’s, Columbia (1913) Good Shepherd, Greer (1914) St. Philip’s, Greenville (1922) St. Peter’s, Great Falls (1947) St. John’s, North Augusta (1950) All Saints’ Church, Beech Island (1950) St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Columbia (1950) All Saints’ Church, Clinton (1951) Church of the Redeemer, Greenville (1951) St. Bartholomew’s, North Augusta (1954) St. Michael’s, Easley (1956) Holy Cross, Simpsonville (1957) St. Francis, Greenville (1957) St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg (1959) All Saints’ Church, Cayce (1959) St. Michael and All Angels’, Columbia (1960) St. Christopher’s. Spartanburg (1962) Church of the Cross, Columbia (1964) St. Simon and St. Jude, Irmo (1969) St. Peter’s, Greenville (1970) St. Paul’s, Fort Mill (1974) St. Mary’s, Columbia (1974) St. Alban’s, Lexington (1977) St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin (1982) St. David’s, Columbia (1985) St. Margaret’s, Boiling Springs (1987) St. George’s, Anderson (1990) St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken UNORGANIZED (1820) St. Paul’s, Pendleton (1908) St. Paul’s, Batesburg Page 57 88th Diocesan Convention Becoming – Discerning - Living October 15-16, 2010 Hosted by: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Columbia, South Carolina Friday October 15, 2010 2:00 – 4:30pm Registration Satterlee Hall 5:00pm The Welcoming and Seating of the Bishop with Holy Eucharist The Cathedral 6:30pm Dinner Averyt Hall During dinner, convention delegates were seated at assigned tables. Conversations related to Bishop Waldo’s sermon were centered around questions prepared in advance by the Bishop. 8:00pm Ministry and Mission Session I The Cathedral The Right Rev. Andrew Waldo, President of Convention, called the 88th Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina to order, welcoming all to our annual family gathering. He then introduced The Rev. Canon Charles M. Davis, Jr., acting dean of Trinity Cathedral, who welcomed delegates to convention on behalf of the host parish, and expressed his gratitude to parish volunteers and diocesan staff for their efforts in planning convention. Certification of Quorum Mrs. Angela M. Daniel, Secretary to Convention, certified a quorum present, pending the official report. Report of Committee on Agenda and Dispatch of Business The Rev. Canon Michael A. Bullock moved that the agenda found in the delegate packets be the agenda for this 88th Convention of the Diocese. The motion passed. Report of Committee on Credentials The Rev. Robert Horowitz, member of the Credentials Committee, certified that 82 clergy delegates and 153 lay delegates were registered and in attendance. Page 58 In addition, Horowitz+ submitted The Right Reverend Donald M. Hultstrand, retired Bishop of Springfield, for seat and voice at this convention. The motion carried. A motion was offered and passed granting seat at convention for: The Rev. Dr. Donald McPhail The Rev. Margaret A. Muncie The Rev. Todd Oswald The Rev. Charles D. Pollak The Rev. Louie G. Scales The Rev. Dr. Mark Scott The Rev. David B. Thames The Rev. Dr. Arthur Turfa The Rev. Robert Underwood The Rev. Bradley Wilson The Rev. Sr. Sophia Woods, OSH The Rev. William Anderson The Rev. Sr. Carol Andres, OSH The Rev. Herscel R. Atkinson The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Batkin The Rev. Allan Belton The Rev. Withers Caldwell The Rev. Miles Cooper The Rev. Robert W. Eldridge The Rev. Elizabeth Evans The Rev. Randolph Ferrebee The Rev. Daniel Hank The Rev. Dr. Daniel N. Karanja Horowitz moved seat, voice and vote for The Rev. Stephen Bolle, and the motion carried. Delegates also approved motions from The Rev. Horowitz to grant vote for all officers of the Diocese; to grant seat and voice for Young Adults present; and to seat the members of the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee who were present. Election of Secretary Mr. Rusty Miller, Secretary of Diocesan Executive Council, nominated Angela M. Daniel to serve as Secretary of Convention. There being no further nominations, the floor was closed; motion to elect Ms. Daniel was carried. Election of Treasurer The Right Reverend W. Andrew Waldo Bishop Waldo nominated Ms. Leslie Buzzell to serve as treasurer. A motion was made and seconded to elect Ms. Buzzell by acclamation. The motion passed. The Report of the Nominating Committee and possible nominations from the floor The Rev. Susan Loutitt Hardaway, Chair of the Nominating Committee, presented the following nominations received in advance by the Nominating Committee. The floor was opened for additional nominations following the reading of each election. Page 59 Election #1 – Diocesan Executive Council, Clergy Order, to elect three persons for a term of three years: The Rev. Furman L. Buchanan The Rev. John “Johnnie” M. Davis The Rev. Harrison M. McLeod The Rev. Michael Schnatterly The Rev. David “Geoff” Taylor The Rev. Joseph S. Whitehurst Election #2 – Diocesan Executive Council, Lay Order, to elect three persons for a term of three years: Mrs. Suzanne Hulst Clawson Mrs. Melissa M. Langford Ms. Mary Margaret Richardson Lt. Col. J. Glyn Smith, ret. Mr. Rodger E. Stroup Mr. Craig R. Williams Election #3 – Ecclesiastical Court, Clergy Order, to elect one person for a four year term: The Rev. J. Edward “Ned Morris Election #4 – Ecclesiastical Court, Lay Order, to elect one person for a three year term: Mr. Bruce D. Carter Mr. Norman A. Neff Election #5 – Trustee of the University of the South, Lay Order, to elect one person for a three year term: Mr. Thomas H. Coker III Mrs. Elizabeth S. Johnson Mr. Charles W. Minch Mr. John B. Pullin Election #6 – The Episcopal Church Home for Children (York Place), to approve the trustees nominated by the board of York Place for election by convention: January of 2010, four for a three year term: Ms. Miranda G.S. DiMarco Ms. Grace Dixon Keller Dr. Margaret Leslie Pierce Jeter Mr. Frank J. Wideman III January of 2011, three for a three year term: Mr. John H. Boyd, Jr. Mr. Kirby D. Shealy III The Rev. Grant B. Wiseman Election #7 – The Board of Directors, Still Hopes, to be confirmed by convention: Mrs. Lisa Courson Mrs. Elizabeth Van Doren Gray Dr. Ronald E. Gregory Ms. Rhonnie Newton Page 60 Election #8 – General Convention 2012 Deputies, Clergy Order, to elect four for a term of three years: The Rev. Michael P. Flanagan The Rev. Calvin R. Griffin The Rev. John B. “Jack” Hardaway IV The Rev. Sarah V. “Sally” Johnston The Rev. H. Alan Leonard The Rev. John S. Nieman The Rev. Joseph K. Smith The Rev. Grant B. Wiseman The Rev. Mary Catherine Young Election #9 – General Convention 2012 Deputies, Lay Order, to elect four for a term of three years: Mrs. Scooty W. Burch Mrs. Angela M. Daniel Mrs. Mary Ann Park Mrs. Barbara C. Scott Ms. Melinda M. Tulloh Mr. Belton T. Zeigler Introduction of Resolutions for Referral The Rev. L. Howard Maltby, Chair of the Committee on Resolutions, introduced the following resolutions: (attached) Introduction of Proposed Changes to the Constitution and Canons Mr. Daniel Hunt, Chair of the Committee on Constitution and Canons suggested canonical changes to be considered by Convention: (attached) Reading of Resolutions from General Convention 2009 Mrs. Angela Daniel, Secretary to Convention, read those General Convention 2009 resolutions that were referred to dioceses as information regarding changes to the Constitution of The Episcopal Church: Resolution B015 Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That lines 3 and 4 and 11 of Article I.4 of the Constitution (page 2) be amended to change the name of the "Convocation of the American Churches in Europe" to "Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe" as follows: Page 61 Sec. 4 . The Church in each Diocese which has been admitted to union with the General Convention, each area Mission established as provided by Article VI, and the Convocation of the American Episcopal Churches in Europe, shall be entitled to representation in the House of Deputies by not more than four ordained persons, Presbyters or Deacons, canonically resident in the Diocese and not more than four Lay Persons, confirmed adult communicants of this Church, in good standing in the Diocese but not necessarily domiciled in the Diocese; but the General Convention by Canon may reduce the representation to not fewer than two Deputies in each order. Each Diocese, and the Convocation of the American Episcopal Churches in Europe, shall prescribe the manner in which its Deputies shall be chosen. EXPLANATION At a regular meeting on October 17, 2008 at All Saints Church in Waterloo, Belgium, the Convocation of the American Churches in Europe, with the consent of the Presiding Bishop, officially changed its name to the "Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe." The references to the Convocation in the Constitution are merely descriptive of the name; the General Convention did not create or name the Convocation. Resolution B029 Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 76th General Convention amend Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of The Episcopal Church as follows: Sec. 2. No one shall be ordained and consecrated Bishop until the attainment of thirty years of age; nor without the consent of a majority of the Standing Committees of all the Dioceses, and the consent of a majority of the Bishops of this Church exercising jurisdiction. But if the election shall have taken place within one hundred twenty days before the meeting of General Convention, the consent of the House of Deputies shall be required in place of that of a majority of the Standing Committees. No one shall be ordained and consecrated Bishop by fewer than three Bishops. EXPLANATION The provision for consents to be sought through the House of Deputies for episcopal elections having taken place within one hundred twenty days of General Convention was reasonable and expedient in an era when communications were not as facile as today. In our time, Standing Committees are engaged in the consent process on an ongoing basis and develop consistent discernment practices whereby they respond to the dozen or so requests for consent they receive annually. General Convention deputies, because they answer such requests at only one time every three years, because their legislative committee responsibilities and other hearing commitments conflict with consent hearings during the General Convention, and because of the competing demands of legislation on their attention, do not have the luxury of a familiar process as do their colleagues on Standing Committees. As we continue to have higher numbers of episcopal elections each year, it would be good stewardship of leadership resources and would Page 62 help the consent process to have it consistently carried out by those who exercise this responsibility on a regular basis. As well, it has been very beneficial in some recent episcopal elections to allow Standing Committees and their bishop colleagues to explore together the attendant issues when considering consent requests, something that is difficult to accomplish during the triennial conventions of The Episcopal Church. Resolution D029 Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the last paragraph of Article VIII of the Constitution is amended by the addition of a final sentence as follows: No minister of such a Church ordained by other than a Bishop, apart from any such ministers designated as part of the Covenant or Instrument by which full communion was established shall be eligible for licensing to officiate under this Article. EXPLANATION A small number of clergy in the ELCA since the commencement of full communion status with The Episcopal Church have chosen to be ordained by other pastors, rather than by bishops; the same may be true of some clergy of other churches with which the Episcopal Church enters into full communion in the future. The Covenants by which full communion relationships are established normally "grandfather" ministers already ordained, but do not address postcovenant exceptions. When this situation with the ELCA came to their attention, the House of Bishops agreed that they would not license such ministers to serve in The Episcopal Church on a temporary basis under Article VIII; however, there is no explicit language in the Constitution to prevent it. The present amendment would clarify how best to handle these anomalous situations. The amendment echoes the current language of Canon III.10.4.a., and would have no effect on present or planned full communion relationships. Feedback with the Bishop regarding table discussions on Sermon Bishop Waldo facilitated a conversation based on discussions held at delegate tables during dinner. Copies of his sermon were provided to delegates, along with prepared questions. Adjournment Following announcements, convention was recessed until 9:00am on Saturday morning. Saturday, October 16, 2010 7:30am Registration Page 63 9:00am Ministry and Mission Session II Averyt Hall The Right Reverend Andrew Waldo called to order Session II of the 88th Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. The Rev. Grant Wiseman led the Convention in Morning Prayers. Updated Report from the Committee on Credentials The Rev. Robert Horowitz certified that there were 87 clergy delegates and 240 lay delegates in attendance at this convention. First Ballot The Bishop recognized The Rev. Susan Loutitt, who called for a voice vote for elections #6 and #7. Her motion was seconded and passed. The Rev. James Neuberger, Head Teller, requested that the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee distribute ballots for elections, noting that ballots would be given only to those wearing delegate nametag. After the appropriate amount of time, the first ballot was closed. Father Neuberger then introduced Mr. Robert C. Clawson, President of Diocesan Executive Council who, in turn, introduced Bishop Waldo for the Bishop’s Address. The Bishop’s Address The text of the Bishop’s address is printed in Journal Volume II following the minutes of convention. Report of the Committee on Resolutions (resolutions attached separately) The Rev. L. Howard Maltby brought each resolution to the floor in order, with recommendations from the committee regarding action. All resolutions carried. Proposed Changes to the Constitution and Canons (attached separately) Mr. Dan Hunt, Chair of the Committee on Constitution and Canons brought the resolution on the change to canons to the floor, informing delegates that the changes involve conforming amendments to align with Title IV as amended by General Convention 2009. Friendly amendments were offered to Section 2: eliminate “by majority vote;” and Section 1: “church attorney should be appointed and serves at pleasure of the Bishop.” The resolution passed. Presentation of UTO Grant to World Mission Committee Mrs. Phyllis Webb, Diocesan ECW President, and Mrs. Joyce Fauntleroy, Diocesan UTO Thank Offering Chair, presented a $34,057 grant to the Diocese of Haiti for Cange. Mr. Earl Burch accepted on behalf of the World Mission Committee. Page 64 Presentation of Check to Stop Hunger Now Mickey Horner and Brandon Faulkner of Stop Hunger Now reported that 24,000 lunches(roughly corresponding to the number of communicants in our diocese) will be packaged by delegates and other volunteers during the lunch break. The Rev. Susan Heath presented them with a check for $6,000 from the MDG Fund. Noonday Prayers An Order of Service for Noonday was led by The Rev. Mary Catherine Young. Following a blessing for the upcoming meal, Ministry and Mission Session I was adjourned. During a twohour lunch break, all delegates had an opportunity to pack meals to be delivered to Haiti by Stop Hunger Now. 2:00pm Ministry and Mission Session II Bishop Waldo called the meeting to order and announced that 24,048 lunches were packaged during the break. The Rev. Bob Horowitz, Chair of the Credentials Committee confirmed that 210 lay and 87 clergy delegates were in attendance. Report of 1st Ballot and 2nd Balloting The Rev. Jim Neuberger reported on the results of the first ballot: Election #1: Furman Buchanan+, Harrison McLeod+, and Joseph Whitehurst+ elected as clergy members to DEC. Election #2: Suzi Clawson, Melissa Langford, and Rodger Stroup elected as lay members to DEC. Election #4: Bruce Carter elected to Ecclesiastical Court Election #5: run-off between Elizabeth Johnson and Tom Coker for Sewanee Trustee Election #8: Mike Flanagan+ elected clergy deputy to General Convention Election #9: Scooty Burch, Angela Daniel, Mary Ann Park, Belton Zeigler elected lay deputies to General Convention Plenary Response to Bishop’s Address Delegates to Convention were given the opportunity to respond to the Bishop’s Address. Deacon Tim Ervolina thanked the Bishop for his call to justice, and others responded with thanksgiving for the Bishop’s remarks. Report of the Treasurer: Presentation and Approval of the Statement of Mission Ms. Leslie Buzzell, Diocesan Treasurer, presented the Treasurer’s report and a motion was made to accept. The Rev. Paul Strickland expressed his hope that clergy insurance would go back to what it is currently, and Ms. Buzzell explained that all options still are available, but clergy would pay for those options. The report was accepted and a motion was made to reject the Statement of Mission and return it to committee to find money to fund staff position for Christian Formation/Youth. Bishop Waldo pointed out that if approved, DEC would have to fund. The Rev. Bob Riegel expressed concern over directing a position and the Bishop suggested that the Page 65 best way to fund is for each parish to dig deep and accept full diocesan assessments. The motion to reject was defeated. A motion was then made to adopt the SOM. Canon Ann Pilate reported that there was a 50% reduction in funding for Hispanic Ministries. Bill Sanford of St. Timothy’s pointed to other places in the budget that are in support of those ministries. It was noted that DEC was presenting St. Matthias with a one-time grant of $25,000 contingent upon receipt of a Strategic Management Plan. The Statement of Mission was adopted. Report of the 2nd Ballot and 3rd Balloting The Rev. Jim Neuberger reported that Elizabeth Johnson had been elected Trustee to the University of the South at Sewanee. Ballots were distributed for the 3rd balloting. Special Announcement – The Outreach Fund issued a challenge for a grant for Hispanic Ministries. St. Mary’s, St John’s, and St. Martin’s responded immediately. Approval of the Nominating Committee Chair for the 89th Convention Bishop Waldo recognized the appointment of Robert Clawson as Chair of the Nominating Committee. Recognition of the Diocesan Staff At this time Bishop Waldo recognized and thanked Diocesan Staff: Ms. Mary Weston Executive Assistant to the Bishop The Rev. Canon Michael A. Bullock Canon to the Ordinary Canon Julie W. Price Canon for Finance and Administration The Rev. Canon L. Sue von Rautenkranz Canon for Liturgy, Leadership Development and Formation The Rev. d’Rue Hazel Directory of Ministry Development Ms. Roslyn B. Hook Assistant Dean for the School for Ministry Ms. Cynthia L. Hendrix Director for Finance and Insurance Ms. Bethany L. Human Director of Information Technology Page 66 Report of the Committee on Courtesy The Rev. Dr. Charles Foss thanked Trinity Cathedral and all who helped to make the 88th Convention of DUSC a wonderful success. He recognized Mitch Slade, Senior Warden of St. Christopher’s in Spartanburg, who thanked the Diocese for its loving support over the past two years. Invitation to the 89th Convention The Rev. Grant Wiseman of St. Thaddeus, Aiken and The Rev. Leslie Drake of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken cordially invited all to Aiken for the 89th Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, October 22, 2011. Report on 3rd Ballot The Rev. Jim Neuberger reported that The Rev. Jack Hardaway, The Rev. Sally Johnston were elected deputies to General Convention 2012. The Rev. Calvin Griffin was elected first alternate and The Rev. Mary Catherine Yound was elected 2nd alternate. In the lay order, Barbara Scott was elected 1st lay alternate and Melinda Tulloh was elected 2nd alternate. This concluded the elections. Recognition of Service Bishop Waldo expressed his deep appreciation for the dedication and support given to the DUSC by The Rev. Canon Sue von Rautenkranz and The Rev. Canon Michael Bullock. Report on Agenda and Dispatch of Business The Rev. Canon Michael A. Bullock, reporting that the agenda had been completed and all business dispatched, moved the adjournment of the 88th Convention of the DUSC until October 22, 2011. The motion passed unanimously. After a final hymn, Bishop Waldo offered blessings upon all present and dismissed the delegates. Respectfully submitted, Angela M. Daniel Secretary to Convention Page 67 RESOLUTIONS BECOMING DISCERNING LIVING The 88th Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina October 15-16, 2010 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC RESOLUTION #1 This resolution was removed from the floor by the Catawba Convocation. RESOLUTION #2 Date: September 26, 2010 Offered by: The Rev. Grant Wiseman Church: St. Thaddeus, Aiken Subject: Gravatt Sunday Whereas, The Bishop Gravatt Camp and Conference Center is an institution of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina providing a sanctuary for the ministry of Christian formation and hospitality; Whereas, Lives have been changed and people brought to Christ through the work at the Bishop Gravatt Camp and Conference Center; Whereas, The Bishop Gravatt Camp and Conference Center currently receives no funding from the Diocese to sustain and grow its ministry; Whereas, The Bishop Gravatt Camp and Conference Center currently receives no funding from the Diocese to sustain and grow its ministry; Whereas, The 87th Diocesan Convention resolved that the first Sunday in February be designated “Gravatt Sunday” and that Diocesan congregations celebrate by educating individuals about Gravatt’s ministry and encouraging individuals to support Gravatt’s ministry through prayer and special offering; Be it Resolved, That the congregations of Upper South Carolina designate one Sunday in February “Gravatt Sunday”. Page 68 RESOULTION #3 Offered by: St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Church, Columbia Submitted by: the Lay and Clerical Delegates of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Church, Columbia Subject: Call for end to negative partisanship and greater civility and justice in the public arena Whereas, The State of South Carolina has been significantly affected by the continuing economic situation as evidenced by continuing high unemployment rates and the escalating rate of enrollment in the Medicaid program, which currently serves more than 820,000 South Carolina residents; and Whereas, The South Carolina General Assembly has been faced with significant difficult choices in balancing the state budget for the last several years; and Whereas, The economic forecast for the coming year is not expected to show more than gradual improvement; and Whereas, The State faces difficult choices as we approach the coming state-wide elections in November which will greatly affect the manner in which these difficulties are managed; and Whereas, The current circumstances in South Carolina have created a climate distrust and anger, to the detriment of all citizens; and Whereas, The existing climate fosters electoral campaigns that are highly partisan and appear to concentrate on blaming one’s opponent (or some generalized other group) without offering solutions; and Whereas, our Baptismal Covenant calls upon us to proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ; to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbor as ourselves; and to strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being; and Whereas, Our Lord has commanded us to love one another as He has loved us; therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, That the 88th Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina calls those who seek election to office, those who support candidates for office and those who will be affected by the elections and subsequent actions of the General Assembly, to put aside partisan politics; refrain from unnecessary or inappropriate personal attacks upon the character of those running for office; be guided by our Lord’s call for justice for all and heed the wisdom of our founding fathers who sought “to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”; and reach out to find workable, honorable and lasting ways to weather the current storm and do justice by and for all the citizens of this state, most especially those who are dependent on their more fortunate brothers and sisters for a helping hand. Page 69 Standing Resolutions of The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina 88th Convention on October 16, 2010 1. RESOLVED, that when any clergy of the Diocese shall depart this life, the Minister’s record shall be inscribed on a Memorial Page of the Journal of the Convention. 2. RESOLVED, that one copy of the Journal be mailed to each Deputy separately by the Secretary as soon as it is printed and ready for distribution. 3. RESOLVED, that the stated offerings be as follows: The Episcopal Church Home for Children - Thanksgiving Day, The Bishop’s Discretionary Fund - Bishop’s Visitation, Finlay House and Still Hopes - the second Sunday in May. 4. RESOLVED, that unless otherwise designated by the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese, all voting or balloting at the Diocesan Convention shall be as follows: (a) any person or persons receiving a majority of the votes cast on the first ballot shall be declared elected; and (b) if all of the places being voted on are not filled on the first ballot, then the number of candidates on the second and subsequent ballots, shall not exceed double the number of places remaining to be filled, the names on the second and subsequent ballots to be made up of those candidates receiving the highest number of votes short of a majority on the preceding ballot or ballots. 5. RESOLVED, that all Resolutions or motions pertaining to Special Assessments or the raising of funds for any purpose which would affect individual Parishes and Missions be reduced to writing and placed in the hands of the Secretary in time for distribution among the delegates and Clergy prior to the Convention, and that all such Resolutions and motions be made separately and not a part of any other motion; provided, that two-thirds vote of each order voting separately, may override the requirements of this Resolution. 6. RESOLVED, that any person or persons proposing an addition to the Diocesan Budget at Convention shall be required to state the source of the additional funds or shall propose a decrease of an amount equal to the proposed addition from another item or items within the Diocesan Budget. 7. RESOLVED, that the biblical tithe is commended to the members of the Episcopal Church, and be it further understood that the duty of all Christians is to follow Christ; to come together week by week for corporate worship; and to work and pray for the spread of the kingdom of God in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina as the minimum standard on which Christians ought to base the return of their material possessions to God through the Church. 8. RESOLVED, that Robert’s Rules of Order shall be the Standard of Procedure for the transaction of business at each Diocesan Convention. 9. RESOLVED, that the Episcopal university and college students of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina be represented by a seat and voice at this and future Diocesan Conventions; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the representation of the Episcopal university and college students of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina be determined as follows: (A) Each organized Episcopal college group shall be entitled to one representative. (B) In the absence of such group, the Episcopal chaplain may nominate the campus representative. 10. RESOLVED, that the Sixty-third Annual Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina discourage the serving of alcoholic beverages at church-sponsored social functions on church property. 11. RESOLVED, that reflecting the concern expressed by the 1985 General Convention for the medical needs of retired clergy and spouses, and continuing the practice the Diocese of Upper South Carolina has been carrying out, medical/hospitalization insurance will be provided, as resources permit, the clergy and their spouses who have carried out a ministry in this Diocese and retired while Canonically resident in the Diocese. 12. RESOLVED, that any person serving in an elective or appointed position which may cause that person to be an adult before the laws of the State of South Carolina while acting on behalf of the Church shall be a confirmed communicant in good standing and shall have reached his/her age of majority as defined by the laws of the State. Page 70 The Convention Sermon of the Rt. Rev. William Andrew Waldo to the 88th Diocesan Convention October 15, 2010 Wrestling with Rocks On behalf of all the people of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, I have one word for the leaders and membership of Trinity Cathedral – Wow! It is with profound gratitude to God that we gather in this place today. The whole diocesan community has watched with awe as you have undertaken all that you have these past 2½ - 3 years to restore this magnificent Cathedral. Our joy in the new beginnings springing up around here is abundant and we thank you for your hospitality. A special thank you from all of us is due to Wilson Farrell, the project manager for the cathedral restoration and to all the skilled craftspeople who have worked extra hard to make it possible for us to be here this day. Know that you will all be in our prayers throughout the Diocese when, on October 31st, the whole Cathedral community will gather when all the work is finished to worship again in this sacred space. Our readings for this evening’s Eucharist are from the Proper of the Holy Spirit. And it is fitting as we gather from all corners of the Diocese to read from the 12th chapter of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. For as chosen leaders, lay and ordained, we each bring to our work this weekend those gifts for the common good the Holy Spirit has made manifest in us. So many varieties of gifts, and yet the same Spirit. So many varieties of service, but the same Lord. A year ago, before the election, when I was beginning to form a broad impression of this Diocese, I was made aware of both the realities of the tensions that have been as active here as throughout the Church, but also of your persistence in staying together in the midst of them. The more I come to know you, the more I sense how “activated” by the Holy Spirit you are in offering your gifts for the common good. Since we are now bound to one another on this journey in faith, discipleship and service, it’s important that we continue to know each other more deeply, in prayer, in fellowship, and in the stories that shape and guide us. We have urgent and critically important work to do in bearing witness by word and example to the good news of God in Christ Jesus. Tomorrow, I’ll talk more about that work in my address to convention. —The Quaker author, Parker Palmer, has said that “we teach who we are.” And I would say that my own call to ordained ministry has been one of finding ways to enter the dissonances and contradictions in the lives of the people whom I serve in ministry—and my own noisy places for that matter—and to walk through them together toward wholeness in Christ. There’s a story I like to tell about one long-ago event in my life that has formed my sense of vocation and leadership in the Church, and even more so my life and my relationship to Jesus Christ. It’s a story that a few of you have heard before in another version, but I want to tell it here because it provides an important structure for a deeper truth I want to convey. Page 71 —When I was a boarding student at Indian Springs School back in the late 60’s the area around the school had not yet become a suburb of Birmingham. It was still an all-boys school on 700 acres adjacent to Oak Mountain State Park. On weekends, it was a teenage boy’s paradise—so much so that on most weekends I preferred to stay on campus rather than catching the bus to Montgomery. Adventure and (mostly) innocent mischief often filled the spaces between studying and eating. In the fall of my junior year, a friend and I got word that over in the state park there was a “secret” cave that only a few alumni and none of the current students knew about. One of those alumni, swearing us to eternal secrecy of course, imparted to us the general whereabouts of the cave. So one Saturday morning my friend and I set out to find it, fully equipped—we firmly believed—with 150 feet of good climbing rope and a flashlight. Once we got into the park we found the entrance to the cave within about an hour, nearly obscured by seasons of fallen leaves. My friend—filled, as he claimed, with experience in these matters—thought it would be a good character-building experience for me to go in first. Doubtful but nonetheless game, I tied the rope around my waist, and shimmied in through the narrow entrance on my back. His job was to hold on to the other end of the rope and to pull me back up if I tugged the rope or yelled that I wanted to come back up. Not unlike my entry into the ordination process many years later, I had no idea what really lay ahead—wonder, danger, or both. Going into the cave, I had my thread of a rope with someone at the other end of it and my trusty flashlight. Going into ordained ministry, I had people behind me holding me up in prayer and my light was my faith. The cave opened up as the natural light faded in the distance and I turned on the flashlight. That was when I discovered that the batteries were not exactly fully charged. “Well,” I thought, “I can’t get more than 150 feet away and the rope can lead me back if necessary.” So off I went, climbing down a steep drop off into the darkness of a larger open area. Finding a small tunnel at the back of the open area, I got on my hands and knees and began crawling deeper into the cave, led by the yellow, gradually dimming light of my flashlight. The tunnel was tightish, only about 18” wide and 30” high. But I was a little guy in those days, and figured I could go in at least a bit further. What I didn’t know was that I had gone so far in that I couldn’t hear my friend shouting that he was running out of rope. Nor could I feel his tugging back on the rope, with all the bumping and scraping I was doing against the sides of the tunnel. And without knowing it, I had forced him to let go of the rope. In retrospect, this would become a powerful metaphor for me in life and community, a metaphor that has to do with staying in touch and being careful about going it alone— spiritually and vocationally. What followed became a metaphor for what happens when I forget the other metaphor. Just for the heck of it, I turned the light off for a moment to see just how dark it was in there, and for that moment, I found myself in utter, complete blackness. My hand, held inches from my nose, was invisible to me. No sound. No movement of air. It was like the stillness of the grave, and I shuddered, quickly turning the light back on. “Maybe it’s time to back out of here,” I thought. Page 72 But then, just ahead of me was a bend in the tunnel, a corner around which I could not see. Maybe it opened into a magnificent room filled with stalagmites and stalactites! Oh, the temptation of discovery! —Never mind the maternal voice in the back of my mind muttering, “Andy, I just can’t think of enough things to tell you not to do!” —The corner was a little tighter than it had looked—maybe 10-12” wide instead of 18-20”— but I pushed ahead. I got around it just enough to see that the tunnel didn’t open up but went on. So I decided to go back. My flashlight was getting dimmer by the minute and I really had seen enough for the time being. The problem was, when I tried to back up, I couldn’t. I soon discovered that I was quite stuck. And my yells for help fell dead on the nothingness ahead. Turning off the flashlight to conserve energy, I struggled in utter blackness to back out of my predicament. Had only I known the words of the words of the psalmist: “Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; darkness and light to you are both alike!” But I did not know them, and at that tender age, I might not have understood or appreciated them. —Marcus Borg, borrowing a metaphor from Søren Kirkegaard, has written that “Faith as trust is like floating in a deep ocean…If you struggle, if you tense up and thrash about, you will eventually sink. But if you relax and trust, you will float. 1” For some 45 minutes, I struggled tensely in the blackness of that cave, fear and panic scraping at my heart even as hard rock scraped at my sides. — And then I just collapsed and cried—sobbing, desparate tears. Only then, in the limpness of exhaustion, did I feel myself begin to slip out of the sedimentary noose around my waist. “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,” St. Paul wrote to the Philippians, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself… Like a heart transformed by love when I give myself to God, my freedom in the cave came only when I emptied myself and stopped wrestling with rocks. “Don’t wrestle with rocks” has since become a kind of mantra for me. —Henri J. M. Nouwen has written that “the spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it.”2 In the sense of which Nouwen speaks, we have all by our vocation ventured into a cave by offering our lives and leadership on journeys into the depths of the world. People to whom I’ve told my cave story unadorned by theological or spiritual interpretations often think of it as simply frightful, claustrophobic and terrifying—a worst case scenario. And without metaphorical translation, it certainly is all that, but I haven’t finished the telling yet and, like Henri Nouwen’s comment on the spiritual life, going deep bears the possibility of danger and a hope for reward.. 1 Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003), p. 31. 2 Uncertain where the quote is from. I discovered it in the Franklin‐Covey Planner for fall of 2005 as a quote of the day. Page 73 In the opening verses of his gospel account, John the Evangelist establishes the fundamental character of the One in whom our lives are centered, God’s only-begotten; our Christ and our redeemer: “What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” This proclamation that there is a light which darkness did not and cannot overcome assures me that getting stuck is not the worst thing that can happen to a person, however dark and hopeless it may seem at the time. It’s important to know that the friend I went into the cave with was not a close friend. In fact, he was a person I usually tried to avoid. It just happened that we went together that day because we were both around on the weekend, had nothing to do, and someone had offered us an interesting challenge. But without knowing it, I would most definitely have need of him that day—just as St. Paul assures us of our need for one another in the Holy Spirit. —When I crawled my way out of the cave, I didn’t have to get all the way to the entrance to find my friend. When I had gone too deeply in, he had held on to the rope for as long as he could and I had dragged him down into the cave over loose rocks and dirt. He only let go when he reached the steep drop off, beyond which he could not see. So the first thing the light of day illumined for me as it gently entered from the small entrance above us was my friend’s silhouette. Not my best friend in the world, but there was no one I wanted more to see at that moment. Had I remained stuck in the darkness, only he could have brought help. I had been lost, but now was found. And with his help, his reaching into the darkness below the drop off to my outstretched hand, we scrambled our way together up to the entrance, steeped in light that grew brighter and brighter the closer we moved towards it. For those of us, lay and ordained, who venture deeply into the challenges of nurturing and living in spiritual communities, a fear of getting stuck or hurt or disillusioned is always lurking back in our minds somewhere—sometimes on the smallest of issues. But the practice of self-emptying, the practice of trust, and above all, the practice of hope in the promise of life given to us by God in Christ Jesus continually show us the rewards of discipline on that journey. You see, my cave story doesn’t end with our having crawled out of that entrance into the bright light of a crisp autumn day in Alabama. Just a few months later, I went back. This time I took a trusted friend. (Not to mention a couple of flashlights with fresh batteries.) — In spite of the fear I had felt when I was stuck, I never stopped wanting to know what was, in fact, around that corner and out of sight. With this friend, and a good bit of care, we went in all the way to the back, where we did find a room. Not a magnificent cavern, but a little jewel of a room with glistening water running down the walls from a shelf above our heads. A room with subtle signs of others who had made the journey before. And a room we filled with laughter as we tussled and became caked with the damp clay on the cave floor and spooked low-hanging bats. It was a moment of delight and discovery, of risk rewarded with joy. And covered with all that slippery clay, I just squirted through the spot that had so tightly held and frightened me before. My spirit was reborn in the thrill of adventure, in the companionship of a trusted fellow-traveler, and in the reward of our persistence. Page 74 As I look ahead at this journey we’re now on together, I know that it’s one of our critical tasks in this Diocese to imagine what “splendid rooms” are there for us to discover. A Christian should indeed always be moving in the directions of God’s promise of abundant life. I’ll begin to point to some of the possibilities I see tomorrow in my Convention address. At your table discussions tonight, I hope you will begin to describe for each other what a splendid room to which we all want to go will look like. By definition, we will have to risk going through places that have been hard for us in the past, but we will also go to new places of discovery for Christ’s sake and for the sake of the Gospel. And we will go together. The only way we can do that is to be his Body for one another—in the daylight and in darkness. Let us pray. O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Small Group Discussions during Dinner During dinner tonight, there will be three questions for discussion on your tables. I’m asking you to talk with each other about them as you eat. Then after our brief opening business session, we’ll have some time in plenary to engage directly with each other in response to these questions. Questions: 1) With what rocks do we still struggle as a Diocese? 2) Of what must we let go in order to become more faithfully the Body of Christ as Paul describes us? 3) What would constitute a “splendid room” for you, a new discovery on our common journey in faith? Page 75 The Address of the Rt. Rev. William Andrew Waldo to the 88th Diocesan Convention October 16, 2010 Yesterday evening, I shared with you my story about getting stuck in a cave when I was a teenager. I described the rich metaphorical meanings of being stuck, getting free and even going back in weeks later that that experience has offered me for many decades since. In our plenary conversations later yesterday evening, you several recurring themes emerged as we discussed how my story might be metaphorically related to our common life in this diocese: fear of change; getting out of our own way, focusing on how we are unified in Christ Jesus, and our need to do more teaching and spreading of the Gospel were the primary ones. Today, I’ll move that metaphor and our discussions around it into some of the realities of our common life. I’ll talk about what I perceive to be the opportunities before us in the years ahead as we seek to become ever more faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. One thing is as true for me today as it was more than forty years ago when I shimmied on my back down into an unknown, dark and dangerous place: I knew then that an adventure was ahead of me. As I stand before you this morning, I know that an adventure of a different kind is once again ahead of me. And I am thrilled to be on it with you. What else, in fact, could a journey into Christ, into God himself, be but the ultimate adventure? Since arriving in South Carolina in early April, much of my work has been spent understanding the ways in which you’ve already been off on this journey—where you’ve discovered glimpses of the Kingdom and where you’ve gotten stuck. I’ve been discerning how we might prepare ourselves for the next stage—how our structures can move us forward and where they might be holding us back; who are the current and future leaders among us who can be counted on to lead us beyond places and issues that have halted us in our tracks and who instead will lead us into deeper and richer glimpses of the Kingdom of God; what resources and support do we need for this journey, and how does the Statement of Mission—our budget for 2011—address these needs? Before I go into that, though, I offer a few personal comments. In more ways than you can know, I’m aware of being your new bishop. The “overhangingcliff-of-a-learning-curve” that new bishops were warned about last January has already made its presence known several times over. The reality of my newness means that we still don’t know each other well enough for me to offer too specific a vision for the diocese yet. But I do have some clear ideas about changes that will create a fruitful environment for a vivid and focused missional vision to emerge. Some of those changes are already underway. I’ll say more about them in a few minutes, but first I want to describe some of what I see so far. We are clearly a diverse people—theologically, politically, economically, and ethnically to name just a few facets of the breadth of this community. We are also passionate about faith, politics and mission. And yet, with all the turmoil of recent years, this diocesan community has remained committed to the Episcopal Church. Since the walkabouts last November, I’ve Page 76 noted all this with a strange mixture of fascination, fear and trembling—fascination because, as my cave story yesterday suggested, I believe that the richest rewards of faith and life most often come to us after authentic and persistent struggle and toil; fear and trembling because one can get hurt in the struggle. But fascination virtually always wins with me—hence the maternal voice that mutters in my conscience from time to time saying, “Andrew, I just can’t think of enough things to tell you not to do.” Parents are often cautious on behalf of their children; but out of their deep and abiding faith in the sacrificial love of God in Christ Jesus, my parents know well that the richest rewards are virtually always accompanied by some level of risk. To be made new in Christ is never without cost. So one thing you can expect from me is a challenge to take risks for the sake of the Gospel. But, I will never ask it without being willing to take the same risks myself. That being said, my fascination is also bound up with the adventure of this journey we’ve set out on together. You will frequently hear me say that I’m all about having fun, a comment that isn’t remotely glib for me—it is about nothing less than entering into the abundance of life promised to us by God through his Son Jesus. The Kingdom of God may not be here in its fullness yet, but I sure enjoy the glimpses of it that we do get! Already for me, glimpses of that Kingdom have been visible in the fellowship you share with one another—in BBQ, chili, and oyster fellowship; in food, bread and water, youth, medical, and educational mission work; and in prayer and worship. The truth is I’m really loving this. The challenge is to turn the fellowship, mission and prayer that so feed us, especially at local levels, and to transform a larger church and world that live in fear into a powerful witness to the peace of God that passes understanding. This possibility is particularly poignant in light of the heightening conflict between our brothers and sisters in the Diocese of South Carolina and the Episcopal Church. We may be next door. We may care profoundly that these tensions might be turned toward reconciliation, but it is not our task to get stuck in the same tensions. Again and again, Jesus assures us that in him we are made one. St. Paul repeatedly points out that it is precisely in our diversity that we find fullness in the Body of Christ. Especially now, especially here, we are called to bear witness to those scriptural promises! And, it is precisely in light of these tensions that I’m calling us to new norms of dialogue and relationship. That we have already engaged in dialogue during this convention and will do so again before the day is out is intended to be a sign that our koinonia, which is the Greek word for sharing in one another, will be the mark of our common life. Last March, on my first gathering with the clergy of this diocese we began this dialogue by talking about the norms by which we are called to be in relationship with each other. Among the norms I named were some that are intended to shift the way we talk about the difficult theological issues in the church. For example, it is not acceptable for left-of-center Christians to scoff or speak sarcastically or dismissively of their more conservative brothers or sisters. Nor is it acceptable for right-of-center Christians to dismissively judge their more liberal brothers and sisters as having abandoned scriptural authority. There will always be persons on both sides of an issue who have long since lost interest in reconciliation or the ability to let go of what they believe to be an unalterable scriptural or sociological principle. To those, I say that church history is itself a witness to the need for deep humility regarding such claims. To the rest of us, I say that in a spirit of trust and transparency let’s put those things Page 77 that make us stuck out on the table and speak of them together with evident and disciplined love and respect for one another. This, I think, is true discipleship! To give evidence that such norms offer the possibility of transformation, I offer a couple of vignettes from our clergy conference two weeks ago, at which we began a dialogue precisely on those places of tension that have dogged our beloved Church. At one point in our morning-long discussion, a conservative priest stood up to say that for years he had felt the need to build walls around himself in order to protect himself from those who would excoriate him for bearing witness to the truth as he understood it. That morning’s dialogue, he said, had given him hope that there is a safe place for him in this church. Later that evening, when I having a private discussion with another priest in the dining hall at Gravatt, I heard a call from across the room. Looking up, I saw a very conservative and a very liberal priest, arm-in-arm, both smiling broadly, and jokingly pointing at each other as if to say, “Look, see what’s going on here!” Now, these two vignettes are not transformation in and of themselves. There is still work to be done. But let me tell you, this is absolutely the direction I want us to go! As a caveat, I must add that the one voice missing so far from this conversation so far is the open voice of brother and sister Christians who are gay or lesbian. As we move into further scriptural and theological discussions in the coming months and years, their voice will be needed and invited to the table, and the same norms of evident and disciplined love and respect will apply. There are of course other areas of tension—how we prioritize our money, how we develop our congregations and evangelize for new membership and new Christians, how we address questions on the relationship between baptism and eucharist, and so forth. There are any number of other things that may or may not make us feel especially stuck, but which do represent challenging opportunities for us to be faithful to Christian koinonia, to our sharing in fellowship and mission within the Body of Christ. From where I sit, then, how we are in relationship with one another is the canvas upon which our common life is painted. It is utterly fundamental and colors all the claims we make to the world about the loving grace and salvation of Jesus Christ as Lord of the universe. Getting right with each other is at the very heart of our diocesan vocation. It is a sign of our relationship with Jesus himself. —So what about the changes I mentioned earlier that are already underway. The primary changes are a group of structural changes affecting discernment for lay and ordained ministry, clergy deployment, and parishes in transition. All of these changes are being made with the goals of strengthening leadership, streamlining processes, and, above all, increasing your capacities to be effective in ministry. The first structural changes are occurring in discernment for ordained ministry. In this as in many dioceses, discernment for ordination processes have been based on a particular series of steps and stages, the successful completion of which has assured ordination. This approach leaves out an essential dimension of discernment: what is the Church’s call to an individual? What particular charisms are needed by the church in this time? In order to bring this discernment into play, the Commissions on Ministry, on the Ministry of the Baptized, Page 78 the Bishop’s Interview and Discernment and Standing Committees have all begun asking new questions to those in ordination processes and of themselves. The Long-Range Planning Group of Diocesan Executive Council is already taking this direction into account as it looks forward. These new processes bring a deeper balance between the identification and affirmation of an individual’s call and the church’s needs. And it is a critical movement. For it not only helps us raise clergy leaders from the ground up who are skilled in disciplines of prayer, study, liturgy and pastoral care, but also in evangelism, teaching, advocacy, stewardship, and congregational development. The same principles will be at work to greater and lesser extents, depending on the situation, in clergy deployment processes. But the long-range goal is to begin leadership formation and training as early as upper elementary ages, and continue it through adolescence and young adulthood, and into the full life-cycle. This is not just for ordained ministry, but for any vocation lived in response to God’s call. There are strong models for this in the Church and we’re already beginning conversations with Camp Gravatt, Canterbury, Vocare, Diocesan Recruitment for Young Vocations (a.k.a. “DRYV”), and the Commission on Ministry to put people and processes in place to strengthen our overall leadership development. I’ve already heard a couple of joking references to the fact that I sure do talk about the Diocese of Alabama a lot, and I’m about to do it again. But in light of those references (and other recent events…), I’d like to say that a bit of good, healthy competition between South Carolina and Alabama is good for Alabama, and, apparently, even better for South Carolina! Now that that’s out of the way, I want to remind you of a point I’ve made before about leadership development in the Diocese of Alabama. At Camp McDowell, upper elementaryaged children at camp are identified as potential counselors for when they grow older and they are encouraged to take up those roles. Then, from among counselors, potential staff members for the camp are identified. When young people get to college, a network of seven full-time and four part-time college chaplains throughout the state continues discernment for life and for leadership with young adults. Some of them move into discernment for ordained ministry; some choose lay vocations that honor and develop their particular call and gifts for ministry. This vision of leadership development should firmly draw our attention to Camp Gravatt and our youth, college and young adult ministries. Another structural change underway has to do with parish transitions. When a priest leaves a congregation, the transition time is a sensitive and critical period in the life of a parish community and requires the right leadership for the situation. Some interim periods can be relatively short, especially when a community is not conflicted, lay leadership is broad and deep, and the parish has a clear sense of purpose and a long-range plan. Some interim periods require the skilled work of clergy whose primary call and training is to help congregations with more complex situations to move forward with deliberateness and prudence. We are now working on a discernment process for those called to this specialized ministry of interim work. We are also developing guidelines through which we can determine how to create the most effective and nimble transitions for congregations. Page 79 The changes I’ve mentioned so far do not radically affect the Statement of Mission. So this represents an excellent opportunity to do some of this restructuring within the tighter limits of our budget. As you know, I’ve also begun re-ordering the structure of the Diocesan staff with regard to the primary tasks of Canon staff, and office support available to them. Job One for all Canon staff will be to support parishes as trainers, transition support, leadership and congregational development resources and communications training and support. This means that you will be seeing even more of diocesan staff members than you already do. It also means that we will be using Convocational meetings and Leadership days as opportunities for you to grow in skill and perspective as you continually increase your capacity for effective evangelism, stewardship, communication and leadership development. The first thing you’ll notice in the Statement of Mission is that in a spirit of financial transparency compensation expenses are now listed in detail for each staff member. The second thing to note is that the Statement of Mission reflects a decrease in overall staff expenses, though we have added a lower-level administrative position. The purpose of this position is to provide administrative support to Canon staff precisely so that they can be out among the congregations more, instead of tending to more mundane administrative tasks. A key Canon staff position that remains very much in the plan is a Canon for Christian Formation, Discipleship and Youth. We just don’t have the financial resources to support it yet. We do however need this position, which will also fundamentally oriented to training and support for congregations. My prayer with regard to this is that, with additional proactive support from staff members and an improving economy, both your will and your ability to support these changes financially will increase. That being said, my long-term vision for staff size does not include expansion beyond what I’ve already described. I do believe that there are essential roles that diocesan staff members play in facilitating not only your local parish needs and goals, but also the collaborations and sharing of resources among parishes that will build up our church. I am convinced that a staff that is fully oriented to serving you will bear fruit in your congregations and also represent faithful stewardship of the resources you are committing for the support of diocesan staff and program. You will see, however, that another reality of the Statement of Mission is reflected in several cuts in the program budget. At this moment in our common economic life, the cuts were fundamentally connected with economic realities. Even so, the Commission on Congregations worked hard to fund our priorities as well as possible. My own perspective on these hard times is simply that they are what they are and it belongs to all of us to discern creative ways to effectively proclaim the gospel, serve the world and administer the sacraments of the church. As we look at program cuts, some of you will be looking at our financial commitment to the work of the larger Episcopal Church as a source of funding. I offer an acknowledgement and a comment about that: I acknowledge that frustration with decisions at General Convention have raised the profile of our own funding of the Episcopal Church as a target for some of you. My comment comes out of my experience at the past two House of Bishops meetings. Among the first thing one realizes at the House of Bishops is that we are truly an international church, comprised of churches in 18 different nations. These include continental Europe, many Caribbean and Latin American nations, Micronesia and Federal Ministries encompassing prison, military, and veteran ministries throughout the world. Page 80 Few people realize, for example, that the Diocese of Haiti is in fact the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church. Substantial portions of the Episcopal Church budget are spent in supporting work in dioceses, including Haiti, which need mission monies. At one point in our September meeting, John Tarrant, the new Bishop of South Dakota, rose to thank the Church for its support of his diocese. “47% of our budget comes from the General Convention budget,” he told us, “and it supports critical ministries. It pays for several of our Native American clergy who minister in contexts virtually unknown in most dioceses. One of our priests, for example, serves 11 congregations on a large reservation. He performs as many as 6-10 funerals per month, too many of which are a result of suicides. He has even had to cut the rope which had been used by a young woman to end her life only three weeks away from her graduation from college. This ministry to a deeply impoverished people and many like it,” he concluded, “would simply be impossible without your support. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart.” My own belief is that our contribution to the budget of General Convention is simply part of being who we are and we need to be full participants. Going back to the norms for how we are in relationship with one another in this diocese and in our roles with the larger Episcopal Church, I believe there is a profound opportunity for us to bear witness to life in Christ that is not so freighted with alienation and discord. I think this is a far better place to direct our energies. For myself, the burgeoning and rich relationship that Bishop Mark Lawrence and I have been building is one that we both hope can become such a witness to the larger church. There are many things on which Mark and I don’t agree theologically, but we share a new friendship as well as a mutual and growing commitment to deep theological, biblical and ecclesiological dialogue. Once again, when we focus on relationships there is no telling what graces of God will shower upon us. When it comes to our long-range Statement of Mission thinking, one thing is certain: as we move further into my episcopate, our stewardship of our financial and human resources will need to be expressed in the context of a larger vision for how we can live most fully into God’s mission. This is as true for God’s mission in this part of the world as it is in those places beyond Upper South Carolina to which God has already called us to invest ourselves and our resources. The long-range planning committee of the Diocesan Executive Council has already begun listening in prayer with a heart for developing a strategic shape for our work in the years to come. While there is much work yet to be done, we are giving much attention to encouraging collaborative connections among congregations that develop along shared needs, passions and energies. We want to be able to identify key people whom God has gifted with key skills in parishes of whatever size who can participate in sharing those gifts. We want the sharing of those gifts to affirm those individuals and to build up our congregations in creative ways. By next year’s convention, we should be able to paint a clearer picture of this vision One thing I do know is that the purposeful fellowship we share is emerging as an important “glue” in bringing and holding us together. The recent Chili Cook-Off sponsored by the Foothills Convocation, our work together in just a little while to pack meals for those who are hungry, and a growing intentionality in our fellowship to support our mission collaborations in Haiti and Ecuador are good examples. And next week, my hope is that many of you will attend the auction and fundraiser for Camp Gravatt next week here in Page 81 Columbia—not just to support Gravatt, but also simply to be together in common fellowship and purpose. I have long believed that food ministries are about the most important starting places for relationships that become deeper in friendship, prayer and mission. The more of these we organize together, the better. And at one or another of such events in the coming year, I will submit—with fear and trembling—my Alabama-style Bishop’s BBQ to the judgment of South Carolina-biased palates! We just need to be together as often and as joyfully and as purposefully as we can. That, I think is part of what Jesus promises by way of abundant life. One final item before I begin to close. The time is coming for us to begin diocesan-wide conversations on the proposed Anglican Covenant. The Episcopal Church has begun disseminating some methods by which dioceses might engage with the proposed Covenant. Our own Commission on the Anglican Communion and International Concerns will soon begin work on creating a structure for our conversations within this diocese. Note that when I spoke earlier about diocesan norms for being in relationship, that the proposed Anglican Covenant is about nothing if it is not about norms. As you are beginning to learn, I consider that it’s always more fruitful to have conversation about relationships when there are real relationships at stake. So in February, I plan to attend a 9-day course at Canterbury Cathedral for new bishops in the Anglican Communion. The course will include bishops from throughout the worldwide communion, and my assumption is that our discussions about the Covenant will be marked by the new relationships I form there. It is for this reason that I want us to begin those conversations this coming spring. —So there is much ahead of us that is sure to engage us in doing the work that God has sent us out to do. But I must confess that I do not feel in the least overwhelmed by it all. In fact, in my visitations around the diocese so far, I’ve heard from vestries, Confirmands and persons being received into the Episcopal Church about the rich spiritual transformations taking place in your congregations. I see commissions and committees deeply engaged in and inspired by the work they’re doing. I see parishes creating really interesting and innovative ideas for ministry. Occasionally, when I actually get to hear a sermon, I’m inspired by what I hear. In fact, I feel inspired simply to be in the presence of the clergy of this diocese. I find all that completely energizing. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things for us to do that will stretch our knowledge, capacity and perhaps especially, our courage. Because there is anxiety and alienation in the world, Jesus calls us to be on missions of reconciliation. And that’s dangerous work! “See,” Jesus said to his disciples, “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” There are far too many people in the world and even in the church who don’t care one whit about reconciliation, but only about winning. You and I are called by the Lord Jesus to be and do differently. This is in fact our primary vocation and it takes considerable discipline and courage. Page 82 The thing is, it’s not really all that hard. God is always with us. And when we work at staying in touch, when we keep ourselves grounded in the Word of God incarnate, when we eat and play and pray together, and above all when we serve the world in Christ’s name, we are with each other. I can hardly imagine a more joyful challenge. Thank you. Small Group Discussions following Address During your small group discussions, please use the following questions to guide your conversations. We’ll use those table discussions as the basis for our plenary dialogue later this afternoon. Questions: 1. What surprised or encouraged you in the Bishop’s address? 2. For what do you especially need courage in your life in Christ? What would it take for you to step beyond your fear? 3. What one interest/passion for ministry do all of you at your table share? What would you be willing to do together for the sake of that passion? 4. What do you think is our next step in this common mission and ministry? Page 83 The 89th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina Hosted by the Parishes of St. Thaddeus, Aiken and St. Augustine of Canterbury October 22, 2011 The 89th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina was called to order at 9:00am by The Right Reverend W. Andrew Waldo with “A Collect for a Church Convention.” The Bishop recognized The Rev. Grant Wiseman, Rector of St. Thaddeus, and The Rev. Leslie Drake, Rector of St. Augustine of Canterbury, who welcomed delegates and guests on behalf of the host parishes. The chair then recognized Ms. Angela Daniel, Secretary to Convention, who certified the presence of a quorum. Ms. Beth Hendrix, member of Diocesan Executive Council, moved the acceptance of the agenda as printed in convention packets. The motion carried. To report for the Committee on Credentials, Bishop Waldo acknowledged Mr. Belton Zeigler, Chancellor of the Dioceses. The Chancellor certified the attendance at convention of 61 clergy and 131 lay delegates with seat, voice, and vote. He then moved seat and voice for The Right Rev. Donald M. Hultstrand, retired of Springfield. Motion carried. In accordance with TITLE I, CANON 1, SECTION 1. (a) (2), the Chancellor requested that the Convention grant seat and voice to those clergy providing extended service as rectors, vicars or assistants to congregations of the diocese with the approval of the Bishop: The Rev. Stephen Bolle (Trinity) The Rev. Halcott Carter (Advent, Spartanburg) The Rev. Keith Turbeville (Christ Church) The Rev. David Wagner (St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Columbia) The Rev. Jeremy Smith (St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg) Motion carried. In accordance with TITLE I, CANON 1, SECTION 3 (a), Mr. Zeigler requested that the Convention grant seat and voice to non-canonical clergy who are licensed to serve in Upper South Carolina: The Rev. William Anderson, Atlanta The Rev. William Barbee, Texas The Rev. Jeffrey Batkin, Florida The Rev. Miles Cooper, Central Florida The Rev. Robert Eldridge, Georgia The Rev. Elizabeth Evans, El Salvador The Rev. Daniel Karanja, Springfield The Rev. Donald McPhail, South Carolina The Rev. Margaret Muncie, New York Page 84 The Rev. David Pittman, North Carolina The Rev. Charles Pollak, South Carolina The Rev. Frank Sawyer, Georgia The Rev. Louis Scales, Georgia The Rev. Mark Scott, ELCA The Rev. David Thames, Texas The Rev. Arthur Turfa, ELCA The Rev. Robert Underwood, Central Pennsylvania The Rev. Bradley Wilson, Pittsburgh The Rev. John Zellner, Western North Carolina Motion carried. In accordance with Title I, Canon 1, Section 4.g, the Chancellor requested seat and voice for additional delegates from our Resource congregations: • Trinity Cathedral: Bob Crooks Ty Davenport Kirby Shealy • Christ Church, Greenville: Tom France Ashley Reynolds Chris Cunningham Milton Bates Motion carried. Mr. Zeigler moved that the Convention grant seat and voice for Young Adults present, and that motion carried. In addition he moved that the Convention grant seat for the members of the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee present, and that motion also carried. This concluded the report of the Committee on Credentials. Bishop Waldo called for nominations for Secretary to Convention, and recognized Ms. Kathie Fowler, Chair of the Convention Committee. Ms. Fowler nominated Ms. Angela M. Daniel to serve as Secretary. There was a motion offered and seconded to close nominations and motion passed. The chair recognized Mr. Bill Thomason, Vice President of Diocesan Executive Council, who placed the name of Mr. Rusty Miller, as nominated by the Bishop, on the floor for approval as Treasurer. The motion carried. The chair recognized The Rev. Rob Brown, President, Diocesan Executive Council, who placed the name of Mr. Belton Zeigler, as nominated by the Bishop, on the floor for election as Chancellor. Motion carried. Fr. Brown then placed the name of Mr. Kirby Shealy, as nominated by Bishop Waldo, on the floor for election as Vice-Chancellor. Motion carried. Page 85 The Rev. Michael Flanagan, having been recognized by the Chair, reported on behalf of the Nominating Committee. The following nominees were submitted for positions to be filled by election, and information about the nominees was placed in delegate packets. Fr. Flanagan informed delegates that additional nominations could be made from the floor at the appointed time. Those persons being nominated from the floor would have agreed to nomination, have a signed nomination form which would be given to the Secretary of Convention, and would provide a copy of his/her biography for each member of the convention. ELECTION # 1 Diocesan Executive Council (DEC) ‒ Clergy Order Elect three (3) for a term of three (3) years. The Rev. Johnnie Davis The Rev. Michael Schnatterly The Rev. Paul Stricklin There being no nominations from the floor, a motion to close nominations was made and carried. ELECTION # 2 Diocesan Executive Council (DEC) ‒ Lay Order Elect three (3) for a term of three (3) years. Mr. Kevin J. Hughes Ms. Marie Milam Mr. Stephen F. Peterson Mr. William “Bill” R. Sandberg Mr. Stewart “Chip” Harrington Smith, III Mr. James “Jim” H. Wiley Mr. Craig R. Williams There being no nominations from the floor, a motion to close nominations was made and carried. ELECTION # 3 Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board‒ Clergy Order Elect one (1) for a term of four (4) years. The Rev. Lloyd Edwards There being no nominations from the floor, a motion to close nominations was made and carried. ELECTION # 4 Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board‒ Lay Order Elect one (1) for term of three (3) years. Mr. Alan P. Duesterhaus There being no nominations from the floor, a motion to close nominations was made and carried. ELECTION # 5 Trustee of the University of the South ‒ Clergy Order Elect one (1) for a term of three (3) years. The Rev. Carol “Deedie” Phillips Marshall There being no nominations from the floor, a motion to close nominations was made and carried. Page 86 ELECTION # 6 The Episcopal Church Home for Children (York Place) ‒ Trustees The following has been nominated by the board of York Place for election by the Convention. January of 2012 Elect for a three (3) year term The Rev. Jack Hardaway This concluded the report of the Nominations Committee. The chair recognized Mr. Belton Zeigler, on behalf of the Committee on Constitution and Canons. Mr. Zeigler reported that there were no proposed changes to the Constitution and Canons to come before the 89th Convention. The Rev. L. Howard Maltby, chair of the Committee on Resolutions introduced resolutions for consideration pointing out that they could be found printed on the green paper in the convention packets. [ Resolutions are found in Appendix A.] The first two resolutions, having been submitted by the August 15th deadline, were automatically accepted for consideration. Father Maltby recognized The Rev. Geoffrey Taylor who moved acceptance of a third resolution that was not submitted by the August deadline. Resolution #3 was accepted for consideration. A fourth resolution was submitted by the Vestry of Christ Church, Greenville and was accepted for consideration by vote of convention. The chair recognized The Rev. Jim Neuburger, Head Teller for this Convention, who called for a voice vote for election # 6, the election of The Rev. Jack Hardaway for the Board of York Place. The vote was affirmative. Father Neuburger guided delegates through the first ballot, reminding them to mark only the number for each election. The Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee collected the ballots and the first ballot was then closed. The Liturgy of the Word continued with all attendees participating. Bishop Waldo delivered his address [Appendix B], followed by table discussions. Mrs. Nela Edgar, Chair of the Strategic Visioning Committee, introduced the questions for discussion [Appendix C]. The Rev. Jim Neuberger delivered the report of the first ballot, informing the Convention that there will be no need for a second ballot: Election #1 – Diocesan Executive Council, Clergy Order The Rev. Johnnie M. Davis The Rev. Michael D. Schnatterly The Rev. Paul E. Stricklin Election #2 – Diocesan Executive Council, Lay Order Mr. Stephen F. Peterson Mr. William R. Sandberg Mr. Stewart Harrington “Chip” Smith III Page 87 Election #3 – Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board, Clergy Order The Rev. Lloyd Edwards Election #4 – Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board, Lay Order Mr. Alan P. Duesterhaus Election #5 – Trustee of the University of the South, Clergy Order The Rev. Carol “Deedie” Phillips Marshall Election #6 – The Episcopal Church Home for Children (York Place) Trustee The Rev. Jack Hardaway Following a noon lunch prepared by the host parishes, Diocesan Convention reconvened at 1pm. The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo recognized by name those who served on: Diocesan Executive Council: • The Rev. Rob Brown • Ms. Beth Hendrix • The Rev. Tula Henson • Mr. Brooks Knobel • Mr. Rusty Miller • The Rev. John Nieman Deans and Lay Wardens who have served this year: • The Rev. Gordon Hamilton • The Rev. Leslie Drake • The Rev. Alan Leonard • The Rev. Jack Hardaway • Mrs. Bonnie Orr • Mrs. Kathie Fowler • Mrs. Sandy Tracey • Mr. Ray Cannon • Ms. Alice Hill The Bishop introduced Newly ordained priest: • The Rev. Susan Prinz Deacons : • Patricia Gotautas • Ennis Whiddon • Al Hipp • Dianna Deaderick Page 88 Transitional deacons : • Tom DiMarco • David Sibley Bishop Waldo welcomed clergy in new ministries: • The Rev. Susan Prinz (St. Michael’s) • The Rev. Stephen Bolle (Trinity Cathedral) • The Rev. Scott Fleischer (St. John’s, Columbia) • The Rev. Sister Ellen Francis (All Saints’, Beech Island) • The Rev. Alice Haynes (York Place) • The Rev. David Wagner (St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Columbia) • The Rev. Halcott Carter (Advent, Spartanburg) • The Rev. Charles Jeremy Smith (St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg) • The Rev. Bob Chiles (Christ Church, Greenville) • The Rev. Keith Turbeville (Christ Church, Greenville) • The Rev. Tom DiMarco (Church of the Ridge, Trenton) • The Rev. Michael Bullock (Grace, Camden) • The Rev. Susan Heath (Trinity Cathedral) • The Rev. Dudley Thomas (St. Michael’s, Easley ‒ Begins November 27) • The Rev. Susan Parlier (Canon for Diaconal Formation) • The Rev. Joseph Whitehurst (Canon for Liturgy) • The Rev. Fred Walters (St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields) • The Rev. Patricia Sexton (All Saints, Cayce) • The Rev. Patricia Gotautas (Incarnation, Gaffney) • The Rev. Ennis Whiddon (Foothills Convocation) • The Rev. Al Hipp (Foothills Convocation) • The Rev. Dianna Deaderick (St. Luke’s, Columbia) • The Rev. John Zellner (St. Philip’s, Greenville) Thanking them for their exemplary service, the Bishop recognized clergy who have retired in the past year: • The Rev. Blaney Pridgen (St. Mary’s, Columbia) • The Rev. Charlie Foss (Our Saviour, Rock Hill) • The Rev. Georg Retzlaff (All Saints’, Cayce) The Chair recognized Earl Burch who reported on activity in Haiti. Mr. Burch reported that thanks to the Campaign for Gifts of Bread and Water, the projects at Cange to rebuild the water system and to build a vocational school both are near completion. The initial goal of the Campaign was to raise $1,000,000, but the Diocese of Upper South Carolina raised more than $1,700,000. Mr. Burch shared slides from recent visits to Haiti and reminded everyone of our relationship with Cange that has grown over 30 years. Page 89 Bishop Waldo recognized The Rev. Howard Maltby, Chair of the Committee on Resolutions, who brought each resolution to the floor with recommendations from the committee regarding action: Resolution #1 [Appendix A] – Motion to pass resolution regarding Holy Habits for Stewardship carried. Resolution #2 [Appendix A] – Motion to pass resolution regarding dissolution of St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Rock Hill carried, with corrections: first “Whereas,” date should be 1997 rather than 1977; fourth “Whereas” and final resolve, the correct canon is Canon VIII.6.7.8. Resolution #3 [Appendix A] – Motion to pass resolution regarding structural reform of the Episcopal Church carried. Resolution #4 [Appendix A] - Motion to pass resolution regarding An Invitation to Conversation between The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Right Reverend Mark Lawrence carried. Mr. Rusty Miller, Treasurer, presented the Treasurer’s Report and the Statement of Mission [Appendix D]. He pointed out that the Statement of Mission is based on 78% pledge acceptance by diocesan parishes. If there were 100% acceptance, there would be an additional $460,000 available for programs and ministries. The Rev. Chuck Petit moved that $5,000 be added to the SOM for revitalizing the Committee on Race Relations and pointed out that a resolution by convocation was submitted prior to the resolution deadline and should have been dealt with, but was not. The motion carried. Mr. Miller moved acceptance of the Statement of Mission and discussion followed. Ms. Suzy Clawson stated her strong objection to adopting a deficit budget, and Mr. Ned Badgett also spoke against accepting the SOM. The Rev. Harrison McLeod spoke in favor of the motion, indicating that Christ Church, Greenville, wants to increase its participation in the diocesan pledge. The motion to accept the Statement of Mission carried. Convention recessed for 15 minutes before the beginning of the Plenary Session. Questions for discussion tables were introduced [Appendix C] and the Diocesan Youth Leadership Committee distributed them. Following the Plenary Session, the Liturgy continued and delegates and guests together celebrated the Holy Eucharist. With Convention drawing to an end, Bishop Waldo appointed The Rev. Rob Brown to be Chair of the Nominating Committee for the 90th Diocesan Convention. The Rev. Geoff Taylor reported for the Committee on Courtesy, thanking all who helped to make the 89th Diocesan Convention possible. Page 90 The Rev. Ned Morris of Church of the Advent, Spartanburg issued an invitation to the 90th Convention at his parish. The Rev. Leslie Drake reported on the Agenda and Dispatch of Business, confirming that all items on the agenda had been covered, and The Rt. Rev. Andrew Waldo adjourned the 89th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. Respectfully Submitted, Angela M. Daniel Secretary to Convention Page 91 Exhibit A THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA 89TH DIOCESAN CONVENTION ST. THADDEUS EPISCOPAL CHURCH AIKEN, SC OCTOBER 22, 2011 PROPOSED RESOLUTION #1 Resolution offered by the Rev. Grant Wiseman and the Rev. David Thompson Subject: Holy Habits for Stewardship Whereas, The Diocese of Upper South Carolina at its 86th Convention established a Commission on Stewardship and stated that “Stewardship is the main work of the Church”, and Whereas, The 2003 General Convention of the Episcopal Church approved resolution A135 calling on all members of the Episcopal church to be encouraged to develop a personal spiritual discipline that includes, at a minimum, the Holy Habits of tithing, daily personal prayer and study, Sabbath time, and regular corporate worship. Be it resolved that, That as Christian Stewards and leaders of the Episcopal Church we affirm that we are tithing, or have adopted a plan toward tithing, and that if we are not already doing so, we are committed to give priority to corporate worship, personal daily prayer and study and Sabbath time in our own lives; and we invite all members of the Episcopal Church to join us in these holy habits, and Be it Further Resolved, That we call upon the congregations of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina to set aside a Sunday during Easter committing to the Stewardship of the Holy Habits and Renewal of Baptismal Vows, and make a visible sign of placing those commitments at the feet of God at the Altar. Page 92 (Exhibit A cont’d) PROPOSED RESOLUTION #2 Resolution offered by: Diocesan Executive Committee Subject: Dissolution of St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Rock Hill, SC Whereas, in 1977, by act of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, St. Matthias, Rock Hill was admitted into union with the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina as a mission of the diocese. Whereas, after lengthy study and discernment with the active support of Diocese Staff, and with the concurrence and blessing of the Bishop, the wardens and mission committee of St. Matthias has determined in July of 2011 that it is in the best interest of the people of St. Matthias and the mission of the Diocese that the St. Matthias suspend worship and other functions and that its parishioners affiliate with other Episcopal churches in the area. Whereas, this decision by the wardens and mission committee has been made freely and voluntarily in dialogue with the congregation at large. Whereas, the wardens and mission committee of the St. Matthias have petitioned the Diocesan Executive Council, and the Convention of the Diocese for a formal dissolution of the congregation under EDUSC Canons VIII.7 & 8. Be it Resolved, therefore, the Diocesan Executive Council, in deepest gratitude for the faithful ministry of all who have served Christ at St. Matthias, Rock Hill, hereby exercises its authority under EDUSC Canon VIII.7 to authorize the dissolution of the parish and recommends that the Eighty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Diocese take similar action under EDUSC Canon VIII. 8. PROPOSED RESOLUTION #3 Resolution offered by: Subject: The Rev’d D. Geoffrey Taylor St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville Resolution for Diocese to submit a resolution for structural reform to the 77th General Convention WHEREAS structural reform of the Episcopal Church governance, administration and staff has been before the attention of the leadership for some time and WHEREAS The Right Reverend Stacy F. Sauls, Chief Operating Officer of the Episcopal Church, presented the seeds of a plan for such restructuring to the House of Bishops meeting in Ecuador in September of 2011 and Page 93 (Exhibit A cont’d) WHEREAS this plan calls for a re-envisioning of the Church so that a significantly larger portion of the Church budget can be applied to the mission and ministry of the Church BE IT RESOLVED: That the Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina directs that the following resolution be filed with the Secretary of the General Convention for consideration by the 77th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: Resolved, the House of _______ concurring, there shall be a Special Commission on Missional Structure and Strategy, the composition of which shall be at the discretion of the Presiding Bishop and the President of the House of Deputies and the members of which shall be appointed jointly thereby not later than thirty days following the adjournment of this 77th General Convention. The Special Commission shall be charged with presenting a plan to the Church for reforming its structures, governance, administration, and staff to facilitate this Church’s faithful engagement in Christ’s mission to proclaim good news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed, and the acceptable year of the Lord (Lk. 4:18) in a way that maximizes the resources available for that mission at all levels of this Church. Resolved, the Special Commission shall endeavor to issue its report and recommendations along with resolutions necessary to implement them, including proposed amendments to the Constitution and Canons of this Church, so that they might be considered by a special General Convention prior to the convening of the 78th General Convention in 2015, but in any event, not later than February 1, 2015. Resolved, the General Convention requests the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $100,000 for the implementation of this resolution. Explanation The administrative and governance structures of The Episcopal Church have grown over the years so that they now comprise approximately 47% of the churchwide budget and sometimes hinder rather than further this Church’s engagement in God’s mission. Reform is urgently needed to facilitate this Church’s strategic engagement in mission and allow it to more fully live into its identity as the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society in a world that has changed dramatically over the years but that also presents extraordinary missional opportunity. Page 94 (Exhibit A cont’d) PROPOSED RESOLUTION #4 WHEREAS: God’s very essence and nature is revealed to us in the community of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, “Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of persons;” and WHEREAS: Jesus Christ himself entered into fully human community by calling faithful disciples and by promising he would be with us to the end of the ages, and WHEREAS: we, as Episcopalians, affirm St. Paul’s teaching in our Baptismal liturgy that “[t]here is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,” and WHEREAS: any injury endured or experienced by a member of our community of the church as the Body of Christ affects the whole Body of Christ, and WHEREAS: the Diocese of South Carolina formerly encompassed the territory and parishes that now comprise the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, such that the communicants of the two dioceses are significantly interrelated and bound by faith, fellowship and family, Therefore be it RESOLVED: that we, the people of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, gathered together at the 89th Diocesan Convention in a spirit of unity and reconciliation, invite The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church and The Right Reverend Mark Lawrence, Bishop of South Carolina to come together in person at a mutually convenient time and place in order to strengthen the bonds of our community; and be it further RESOLVED: that The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Right Reverend Mark Lawrence engage in healing conversation regarding the ongoing tensions between The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of South Carolina; and be it further RESOLVED: that The Right Reverend Andrew Waldo, Bishop of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina hand deliver a copy of this resolution to The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori and The Right Reverend Mark Lawrence with our warm regards and collective prayers. Page 95 The Address of the Rt. Rev. William Andrew Waldo to the 89th Diocesan Convention October 22, 2011 Not only with our lips, but in our lives Last February, I was in Canterbury, England with thirty other bishops attending a course at Canterbury Cathedral for “Anglican Bishops in the Early Years of Episcopal Ministry”. Near the end of the course we gathered for prayer in the Chapel of St. Augustine on the campus of The King’s School, only yards away from the ruins of the abbey that St. Augustine founded in Canterbury in the late sixth century. Underneath the main chapel is a smaller chapel dedicated to missionaries trained at a Church of England seminary that was nearby from 1848 until 1976. The names of these many missionaries and where and when they went to serve cover the walls of the chapel. Looking at these names and the places throughout the world to which they went, it’s easy to see British colonialism in full play. But one is also struck by the commitment and sheer courage of individuals who give up everything to bring the word of God and a relationship with Jesus Christ. St. Augustine of Canterbury was himself a missionary, having been sent by Pope Gregory the Great to establish Christianity in Britain, and is known as one of the founders of the English church. When I think about what one person can do in the name of Christ, I become zealous thinking about what 26,000 can do. In particular, I become zealous thinking about what 26,000 Episcopalians in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina can do now in the name of Christ. So our task this morning, within the bounds of our celebration of Holy Eucharist, is to reflect on God’s call to us, the 26,000 Episcopalians in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. a) Preamble Some of what I say this morning will ring familiar; it will put things we’ve already talked about in a larger context. Some of it will be new. What you hear has come out of many sessions and a retreat with members of the Strategic Visioning Task Force, whose members are listed on one of today’s handouts. My goal is to not to present a plan of specific actions, but to articulate an emerging vision of a critical response for a critical time. I’m going to break this vision down into four main parts, which you’ll have before you on the screens here in the room. First, I’ll talk about the “Diocese as a Community of Dialogue, Worship and Prayer.” Second, about “Teaching, Formation, and Vocation within the Diocese.” The third part will address our “Witness, Common Mission and Service to the World.” And the fourth part will address our “Stewardship of People, Place and Money.” Finally, I’ll conclude with a Page 96 pastoral note about this time in the life of our diocesan community. Under each of the major areas of vision, I’ll offer broad-brush principles followed by questions that are intended to bring the principles to life in practical ways within your communities. In the course of my address, it will be important for you to listen for, and even make note of things I say that speak of why particular things we may do actually matter. Take note of where your own energy and enthusiasm connect with mission opportunities, because we’ll be discussing them in small groups and plenary. It will be important for you to notice and be prepared to discuss how what I’ve said aligns with your current parish practices and mission and in what ways it inspires you to re-align your priorities. My hope is that the table dialogues and plenary discussions will sharpen and inform this emerging vision, but more important, give you the beginning outlines of specific ways that you can engage these mission priorities personally, and in your parishes and convocations. All of what I am about to offer as an emerging vision is guided by those words from the General Thanksgiving: that we are called to praise God “not only with our lips, but in our lives.” These words of prayer are the lens through which I’m seeing the larger principles of our common work, and my challenge to you is to look at the specific aspects of your daily faith and mission through this same lens. Everything I will say assumes that the front lines of mission in the Church are local—in parishes, convocations, institutions and with individuals and small groups of individuals. b) The Diocese as a Community of Dialogue, Worship and Prayer The first major area of this emerging vision is “The Diocese as a Community of Dialogue, Worship and Prayer.” When Jesus tells Nicodemus in chapter three of the gospel according to John, that “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life,” he is placing all human life in the context of a relationship with God—and that relationship is given to us through Jesus himself. Unequal partners that we are, it is by definition a dialogic relationship. We pray with our heart, soul, mind and strength and in important ways we “hear” God’s voice in our lives. We are known to God by name and through Christ, we are literally God’s children, and not just children, but heirs of God’s kingdom. We “live and move and have our being” in this relationship and in the plain sight and hearing of the one “to whom all hearts are open, all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid.” Jesus gave his life for the sake of his relationship with us, and calls all who would follow him to be willing to give up their lives for each others’ sakes. Page 97 It’s against this background that I would put the various dialogues we have already had in this diocese—in meetings, clergy conferences, and conventions—our worship, our spiritual and prayer lives, and our common mission in a larger visionary context of what it means to be in a transformative relationship with God and each other. In this age of 24/7 communications, it is obvious on a daily basis that we live in an alienated world. Our political, economic, theological and ethnic alienations stubbornly refuse to go away. Even we as Christians seem to trust more in secular answers to our conflicts than in God’s transforming love. I see this as a long-term missionary opportunity. That is to say, I believe that we act on each other’s and the world’s behalf when we develop our habits, our competence, and our capacity for dialogue in a disciplined way. Disciplined dialogue teaches us how to be fruitful around hard things so we can teach the world to be fruitful around hard things. I cannot think of more deeply-needed spiritual guidance that Christians can offer an alienated world. So my questions—which you don’t need to write down: we’ll be handing them out to you later—my questions are, “How can we create opportunities to learn and practice respect and reconciliation in ways that transform us and others as a witness to Jesus Christ? How can we make sure all voices are heard? How can we practice respect and reconciliation not only with our lips, but in our lives?” We can open ourselves to sacrificial relationships with each other only if we open ourselves to God in prayer. We have neither the courage nor the strength to change ourselves. Only God can provide us with what we need, and we receive what we need from God only when we pray. Becoming a people who practice both personal and common prayer asks us to be disciplined in intention, attentiveness and honesty. Though there are many ways to pray, opening ourselves to God regularly in prayer is the beginning of real transformation in our relationships with God and each other. We may make the assumption, “of course we’re a praying people! We’re the church!” To make that assumption would be to forget that many who either find their way to our faith communities, or who are a part of, or whom we go out into the streets to invite into our communities really have no idea what it means to pray. Which means we need to teach prayer constantly. So my questions to you are, “In what ways can and do we teach prayer in our congregation? How can we form members of our community so that they shape their Page 98 lives around prayer? How can we teach intention, attentiveness and the need to be completely honest with God in prayer (the God who already knows the secrets of our hearts anyway!)?” If we express our personal relationship with God through prayer, and if our fellowship in Christ is characterized by substantive and respectful dialogue over a long period of time, we come to know what we can sacrifice for the sake of the unity, well-being, and vibrancy of the Body of Christ. We will begin to understand in the depths of our souls that being of one mind does not mean agreeing—it means sacrificing for the sake of love. Being a community of dialogue and a community of prayer go hand-in-hand. It is impossible to predict the precise results of disciplined dialogue and prayer, but faith and experience tell us that the results will, at a minimum, be faithful and lifegiving. And it will be visible in our worship, which will show forth the fruits of renewed relationships. Indeed, our worship should not just be our nourishment for bearing witness to God’s love in the world; it should also be the truest indicator of the depth of our love for one another, and of our trust in and love for God. My questions for you are, “In what ways does our worship most authentically express our love for one another? How does our worship convey what is actually true—in day-to-day life—about our community? How might new disciplines of prayer and dialogue convey most authentically that we love each other not only with our lips, but in our lives?” c) Teaching, Formation, and Vocation within the Diocese The next major section of my address has to do with “Teaching, Formation, and Vocation within the Diocese”. —I have often heard it said we have essentially two generations of churchgoers who are either illiterate in relation to the Bible or barely literate. At a minimum, we are painfully far from being a community of Christians who are both familiar with the text that bears witness to God’s saving work in history and also able to interpret the text with nuance. As a body, we have proportionately few members who have the knowledge and skill to engage the intersection of our faith story with traditional teachings, with personal knowledge and experience, and with contemporary life and culture. Everything we talked about earlier with regard to prayer, dialogue and worship is affected by this corporate lack of knowledge of the foundational stories of our faith and the Church’s struggles over the centuries to interpret them and live life faithfully as God would have us do. And yet, any of us who have been engaged in Bible study Page 99 with other brothers and sisters can speak to the power of encountering God’s truth in unexpected and life-changing ways. Our biblical education needs to build on such experiences in order to raise mature Christian disciples throughout the diocesan community over an extended period of time. I’ve spoken often in a variety of contexts about my desire for us to address this situation and have used the example of the Suzuki Method of teaching music as a descriptor of how we might approach our teaching more systematically over a long period of time. In September, our keynote presenter at Clergy Conference was Joanne Melvin, a Canadian Suzuki Violin Method teacher trainer from Calgary, Alberta. Among her memorable comments was Shinichi Suzuki’s saying that, “It takes 10,000 hours to become expert.” And, she told us, Mr. Suzuki’s approach to learning was that any skill or concept can be taught to anyone if it is broken down into its smallest parts and learned one step at a time. When Ms. Melvin made the transition from talking about the musical method to talking about how it applies to Christian education and formation she first asked the question that guides the musical method: “What are the characteristics of an accomplished musician?” She then re-phrased the question, asking us, “What are the characteristics of an accomplished, mature Christian disciple?” when “prayerfulness” was named in the small group discussion at our table, Joseph Whitehurst said, “When I’m teaching prayer to youth, I start by asking them simply to sit quietly for a time.” —One step at a time. It became clear to all that this method and process could be translated into powerful Christian formation in our congregations. But the issue is deeper than pedagogical method and structure alone, for Teaching, Formation and Vocation, the combined subject of this section, are closely linked with each other. Discerning vocation that is grounded in God’s higher calling to us in Christ Jesus—whether that vocation is lay or ordained—is more fully made when one has deeply engaged the substance of Christian faith (teaching) and made a habit of participation in prayer, fellowship, service and worship within the disciple community (formation). Teaching, formation and vocational discernment are mission-critical, long-term disciplines of the Church that need constant evaluation and adaptation. We do however have key strengths in forming Christians for service in the world, vibrant worship and lively fellowship. When we add solid teaching to those strengths, establishing a base of knowledge, building on it, and developing our competence and capacity for mature discipleship across the diocese, we are able to discern more clearly and engage mission and evangelism more effectively. Page 100 A parishioner recently sent me a link to a couple of lectures, one of which was an historical development of how deeper Christian teaching and education moved over the centuries from being centered within local faith communities to being largely focused in universities and seminaries. The lecturer, Rev. Dr. Graham Tomlin, Dean of St. Mellitus College and Principal of St. Paul’s Theological Centre in London, described how they have developed a program over the last 5-6 years for both teaching individuals and training leaders for effective learning in parishes. A key goal of the program is to return the primary locus of teaching and learning to local and regional centers. Such a project could be a key to renewal and development within the Episcopal Church, and I see us applying substantial energy and resources to making some form of this possible. In connection with such a cohesive program of Teaching, Formation and Vocational Discernment is the need for us to develop better connections between age transitions from elementary age children into adulthood in areas of gifts discernment, vocational discernment, and leadership development. I spoke about this in last year’s convention address. The difficulty we have with maintaining continuity of learning and discernment can be seen throughout the Episcopal Church. The Canon for Youth and Christian Formation, whom we have yet to hire will play a key role in making these connections, working with a new Canon for Leadership and Congregational Development, and beginning by collaborating with Camp Gravatt, Canterbury ministries, and young adult ministries. Over the years ahead, we will need to recommit ourselves to campus ministries in material ways if we are to be a substantive support for young persons at that critical point of vocational discernment in their lives. An area in which we’ve already begun to make substantial changes is in the process of discernment through the work of a task force of the Commission on Ministry. The work of this task force has set the stage for broader discernment of gifts and call to ministry in the church in both lay and ordained capacities. But the most important part of that work was to make the structural shifts necessary to create a better discernment balance between the individual’s sense of call from God and the Church’s sense of call to that individual. They addressed a growing desire within the Church to call at least a good number of clergy who have an entrepreneurial spirit and a history of creative development. So as I look down the road for us, I see teaching, formation and discernment to be fundamental components in the development of our congregations, our leadership Page 101 and our effective participation in God’s mission of reconciliation and restoration in the world. We all yearn with eager longing to go deeper, to feel spiritually and theologically equipped, and perhaps above all to understand our lives and vocations as faithful expressions of God’s call to us in Christ Jesus. So my questions for you are these: “What are the characteristics of an accomplished, mature disciple? What are the building blocks of mature discipleship? How do we identify gifts for ministry within our community and offer meaningful ways to put them into service of God’s call?” d) Witness, Common Mission and Service to the World The third area we addressed in our Strategic Visioning Task Force was our “Witness, Common Mission and Service to the World.” Of all areas in diocesan life that have inspired me as I have come to know this diocese better, mission to those in need has been at the top of the list—from the various projects in Haiti and Ecuador, to St. Lawrence Place, disaster relief teams from around the diocese, Stop Hunger Now projects, to HIV/AIDS ministry in the diocese, school supply collections and countless other projects, large and small. Of course the most sustained and holistic efforts have been our mission projects in and around Cange, Haiti. Early on, I noticed that even in that long-term effort, the left hand has not always known what the right hand was doing. Individual parish projects—or sometimes projects undertaken by two or three parishes together—have not always been communicated to others in the diocese. This has not had any detrimental effects on the projects, but it does beg the question, “How do we share what we’re doing with the rest of the diocese to increase collaboration and perhaps make an even bigger difference?” Leaders are recognizing that we are now moving into a new stage of supporting development in Haiti as the most basic food, water and shelter needs are being addressed and we move towards building more schools, churches and creating opportunities for vocations and employment. One of the ways we are already increasing collaboration within the Diocese is through the deployment of our deacons. Parish assignments will now be limited to 2-3 year assignments with the specific charge of organizing parishioners for outreach or pastoral ministries and to develop the leadership to support those ministries after the deacon gets reassigned. Deacons are specifically not being assigned to congregations for the purpose of taking specific work load off of priests—such as providing direct pastoral care, liturgy planning, etc. The assignments will be intentionally focused on organizing people and developing leaders for ministry. A larger aspect of this shift in diaconal deployment is my intention to assign at least one and up to two convocational deacons in each of our five convocations. Fergie Page 102 Horvath has shown us that convocational assignment creates superb opportunities for collaborative ministries among parishes, and even expanding those collaborations into ecumenical projects. In many cases, the collaborations won’t necessarily involve new ministries, but will rather connect additional parishes to successful projects that may already be happening in a neighboring parish. The nature and extent of the collaborations will be determined locally. In order to accomplish this shift, I’m sending deacons and deacon candidates to special training events and the diaconal formation program is being substantially revamped under the leadership of Deacon Susan Parlier, who will be commissioned later today as non-stipendiary Canon for Diaconal Formation. There are several other intriguing mission collaborations that we are encouraging and organizing around. Both Still Hopes and York Place have experienced significantly changing environments for the work they do: Fewer people can afford residential care in their later years and, for similar reasons, residential care for troubled youth is considered an option less and less often. We’ve begun conversations with the staff at Still Hopes about extending their work with elders out into the diocese. They are developing programs that can be administered locally by working with our congregations to provide higher level care for people in their own homes, and to train pastoral ministers in congregations to provide lower level care. The York Place board is proposing a similar move to satellite sites around the state, in which trained staff would work in spaces, possibly provided by congregations, in more local communities. Both of these possibilities are exciting because they strengthen Still Hopes, York Place, our congregations, and the lives of those who benefit from these services. We are also working on strengthening our collaborations in several key areas, such as disaster relief. Our disaster relief coordinator, Jayne Crisp, has begun distributing disaster planning manuals to congregations. We will be specifically connecting convocational deacons with our disaster relief planning group so that we can create teams and/or a network of people who can be called upon with relatively short notice to respond as the Piedmont and Foothills convocations did providing five teams from 13 congregations to work in North Alabama after the recent tornadoes. Other collaborations are just emerging. St. Bartholomew’s in North Augusta, for example, has set up a table here at this convention to get other parishes connected to Episcopal Recovery Ministries to address the affects of addictions, in all its forms, in relation to the church’s mission. During my recent trip to the House of Bishops meeting in Ecuador, Cameron and Roberto Vivanco and Laura and Jorge Estévez and I began outlining a vision for, among other things, reconnecting youth ministry Page 103 and leadership development in Ecuador and here in Upper South Carolina, with teams going in both directions. In the season of Advent, we as a Diocese will be participating in an effort throughout the Episcopal Church to rebuild Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince that was destroyed in the earthquake. Led by Walter Edgar and Patsy Malanuk, we are planning a short, simple and clear campaign to raise our contribution to the effort. Because of our long history in Haiti, we feel that the Diocese of Upper South Carolina should be among the leadership donors. The campaign will be called, “Not by Bread Alone”, and has the simple goal of raising $20 per person in the diocese. At last count, there are 25,439 Episcopalians in Upper South Carolina, which would raise $508,780 in support of the spiritual center of Episcopalians in the largest diocese of the Episcopal Church. Participation is at the heart of the campaign. The plan is for every parish to take up a second collection on the 2nd and 3rd Sundays in Advent in support of it. And that will be the extent of the campaign. Look for more information to come in the weeks ahead! So my questions for you around mission, witness and service are these: “What lessons can we take from the collaborative, focused and sustained spirit and structure with which we have approached our work in Haiti? What projects in your congregations would be especially suited to collaborations with other congregations? In what ways do you encourage and teach ‘giving up ourselves to [God’s] service’ so that we witness ‘not only with our lips, but in our lives?’” e) Stewardship of People, Place and Money The last area of emerging vision has to do with “Stewardship of People, Place and Money”. I begin this section by acknowledging the effect that economic hard times across the nation and globe have had on us, too. Every congregation and institution of the diocese, including our office in Columbia, has trimmed budgets and engaged in remarkably effective mission with fewer resources. Some dreams and ideas have had to be put on hold, and in many congregations ministry to the unemployed and underemployed has become a new priority. My own observation is that we have been and continue to be good stewards of the resources God has given us to work with, and in these hard economic times we need to be especially attentive stewards of our people—their time and their talents. Congregations throughout the diocese have been eager to undertake training for leaders in stewardship, and yesterday’s sessions with Laurel Johnston and Jim Murphy were excellent resources as our Stewardship Commission gears up for additional support to congregations. Work I mentioned earlier on discernment of gifts for Page 104 ministry whether lay or ordained will be a critical component of how we engage people of the diocese in their response to God’s call in their lives. In recent months, for example, I have had individuals approach me who have felt a particular call to be stewards of the environment and to begin re-organizing our efforts to care for and tend the magnificent garden in which God has planted us. As voices become less and less attuned to changes in the environment at national and political levels, Christians have a God-given call to stewardship of creation and to make this an everyday discipline in our private and public lives. Later today we’ll have a chance to look closely at the Statement of Mission, or budget, for the diocese for 2012, but I have a word or two about it in this strategic visioning context. Our Statement of Mission represents a combination of financial resources that both sustain our present and look toward our future. It provides a bishop and diocesan staff who are being increasingly trained, focused and sent in support of your ministries. There will always be a basic cost for administering our relationships across this diocese and within the larger Episcopal Church, because we are the Episcopal Church. The Statement of Mission also contains ongoing support for mission congregations across the diocese each year. And, as I’ve have learned, there is only one other diocese in the Episcopal Church—Texas—that pays clergy health insurance premiums out of pledge monies received from congregations. In all other dioceses, clergy health premiums are paid by congregations above and beyond diocesan pledge amounts that are often in the range of 15-20% of parish budgets. Our decisions about funding priorities for expenditures that are not “fixed” in these ways require us to be highly strategic. Over the past two months, the Diocesan Executive Council (or “DEC”) looked at those priorities and decided continuing to support mission clergy as well as providing diocesan staffing adequate to facilitate collaboration and ministry growth across congregations was of highest priority. The DEC considered that particularly hard economic times were precisely the circumstance for which the operating reserve was created and could serve as a temporary bridge. To date, the reserve fund holds $828,330. This led to a cautious decision to submit a deficit budget for 2012 in order to permit us to hire a Canon for Youth and Children’s Formation in support of the strategic vision. I have also decided to change from having a Canon to the Ordinary on staff to having instead the more focused position of Canon for Leadership and Congregational Development. This change represents a savings of over $40,000. Both the DEC and I consider this deficit a temporary situation that recognizes our strategic need to ensure diocesan support for ministry throughout the diocese. As we look ahead, the financial, personal and physical resources within the diocese are all critical for us as we engage God’s call to us as disciples. The long-term goal is Page 105 to bring as many of those resources to bear in proclaiming the Good News of God in Christ by word and example, always noticing the proportion between what we spend or use of those resources on ourselves and what we spend or use beyond our walls. My questions for you are, “In what ways do we teach stewardship formation in our community? What are the building blocks of stewardship formation? How do we act as faithful stewards of people, place, and money? In what areas could we use the support of diocesan staff to build our mission and ministry? f) Conclusion: Describe the document to be produced Early in this address, I said that I’d be offering an “emerging vision.” There is more work to be done. For example, we can and need to spend time and thought on how our efforts in Christian formation will create disciples who actually share the story of how God has saved us in Christ Jesus. I think we call that the “e” word— “evangelism”. As this work proceeds, we do not intend to present a document with step-by-step plans in the course of our work. We will however, create a document with brief, vivid paragraphs describing this vision in each of the areas and include questions that are both provocative and evocative, questions designed to help you imagine and implement God’s mission in your faith community. We will also include living examples of what is going on around the diocese in each area. g) A Pastoral Note on our Times As I conclude, I give thanks for the privilege of serving God here in this place at this time. We are all deeply aware of tensions within our beloved church, and as I play the various roles I’m given to play in the course of all this, I am constantly aware of how much compassion and care there is within this diocesan community. We care about different things in different proportions, and because of that and because of your steadfastness with each other we remain a strong example of the breadth of the Episcopal Church as it has long been. I will commit to you, as I did in my Op-Ed article published in Columbia, Greenville, (and Charleston?), that I will be an insistent voice in the Church for a return to the comprehensiveness that has so long been a hallmark of Anglicanism. There is so much work to do in so many areas in this regard. And yet I do not fear the turbulence ahead. In fact, it is my deepest prayer that you and I together can bear witness to another way in turbulent times—a way that is neither left nor right, that is grounded in tradition and truth and yet delicately balanced between law and grace, that continues to honor not only the beauty of liturgy and dignified worship, but the beauty of souls made in the image of God. We have a mission here. All that I’ve talked about, all that we’re currently engaging, all that we dream about doing in response to God is still with us as it always has been. Page 106 And as it has always been, God calls us to serve and praise him, not only with our lips, but in our lives. Let us pray. O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Page 107 2010 Official Acts The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo Issued: Eucharistic Minister Licenses Eucharistic Visitor Licenses Worship Leader Licenses Safe Church Training Certificates Total Church Trinity Cathedral Christ Church St. John’s, Congaree St. Francis St. Philip’s St. Stephen’s St. Paul’s St. Bartholomew’s Our Saviour Grace St. Martin’s St. Thaddeus St. Mary’s St. Luke’s Advent Holy Cross Grace 108 70 9 438 625 Location Columbia Greenville Hopkins Greenville Greenville Ridgeway Batesburg N. Augusta Rock Hill Anderson Columbia Aiken Columbia Columbia Spartanburg Simpsonville Camden 17 Subtotals Page 108 Confirmed 23 9 6 7 3 2 0 11 1 20 11 6 16 3 7 6 12 Received Reaffirmed 1 1 7 4 2 143 34 2 3 1 3 1 6 3 4 (Official Acts 2010 cont’d) The Rt. Rev. Charles F. Duvall Church St. Michael & All Angels St. Paul’s St. John’s St. Augustine of Canterbury St. Francis of Assisi All Saints’ St. Barnabas St. Mark’s St. David’s St. Thomas Location Columbia Graniteville Columbia Aiken Chapin Beech Island Jenkinsville Chester Columbia Eastover 10 Subtotals Confirmed 4 3 13 0 4 0 0 2 5 0 31 Received Reaffirmed 5 0 Confirmed 16 Received Reaffirmed 1 21 0 1 Confirmed 1 0 0 6 0 10 12 2 5 2 13 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 Received 2 Reaffirmed 1 4 The Rt. Rev. Rogers S. Harris Church St. Matthew’s Location Spartanburg Boiling Springs St. Margaret's 2 Subtotals 5 The Rt. Donald M. Hultstrand Church Christ Church All Saints’ Ascension St. Albans' St. Christopher’s St. Timothy’s St. James Resurrection Church of the Ridge Good Shepherd Holy Trinity Advent St. George St. Michael’s Good Shepherd Trinity Epiphany Church of the Epiphany Location Lancaster Clinton Seneca Lexington Spartanburg Columbia Greenville Greenwood Trenton York Clemson Spartanburg Anderson Easley Greer Abbeville Laurens Spartanburg 1 1 1 2 18 Subtotals 55 7 0 47 Totals 250 46 3 Page 109 2011 Official Acts The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo Issued: Eucharisitic Minister Licenses Eucharistic Visitor Licenses Worship Leader Licenses Safe Church Training Certificates 139 43 49 233 464 Total Church St. Andrew's Incarnation St. Simon & St. Jude St. Margaret's St. Peter's St. Luke's St. Paul's Calvary (Glenn Springs) & Nativity St. Christopher's Redeemer St. Francis of Assisi Christ Church St. John's, Shandon Church of Epiphany All Saint's Trinity Cathedral St. Matthias St. John's St. James Resurrection Holy Cross St. Mary's Holy Trinity St. Peter's St. Michael's & All Angels Good Shepherd Church of the Cross Advent St. Bartholomew's St. David's Location Greenville Gaffney Irmo Boiling Springs Greenville Newberry Fort Mill Union Spartanburg Greenville Chapin Greenville Columbia Laurens Clinton Columbia Rock Hill Winnsboro Greenville Greenwood Simpsonville Columbia Clemson Great Falls Columbia Columbia Columbia Spartanburg North Augusta Columbia 30 Subtotals Page 110 Confirmed 6 6 9 5 1 1 9 0 5 2 5 49 16 2 0 40 0 2 11 6 12 4 0 2 8 3 1 8 5 0 218 Received 2 2 1 Reaffirmed 2 4 1 4 3 2 5 1 1 5 3 3 4 6 6 1 3 2 1 47 4 19 (Official Acts 2011 cont’d) The Rt. Rev. Charles F. Duvall St. Stephen's St. Timothy's St. John's, Congaree Church of the Good Shepherd Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Still Hopes Church of Our Saviour St. John's, Shandon St. Luke's Grace Ridgeway Columbia Hopkins York Columbia Rock Hill Columbia Columbia Camden 9 Subtotals 0 6 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 10 3 0 Cayce Lexington Spartanburg Subtotals 6 1 11 18 5 1 6 1 1 St. Philip's Church of the Ascension Christ Church (+WAW visitation on 5/15) Church of the Ridge Church of the Advent St. Thaddeus Grace Church St. George's Church of the Good Shepherd St. Michael's 10 Greenville Seneca Greenville Trenton Spartanburg Aiken Anderson Anderson Greer Easley Subtotals 0 1 14 0 0 6 4 11 3 0 0 29 11 4 52 Totals 275 67 24 3 The Rt. Rev. Rogers S. Harris All Saints' St. Alban's St. Matthew's 3 The Rt. Rev. Donald M. Hultstrand Page 111 1 4 Ordinations and Letters Dimissory 2010 & 2011 Diaconate June 3, 2010 June 3, 2010 May 21, 2011 May 21, 2011 June 4, 2011 June 4, 2011 September 24, 2011 September 24, 2011 Priesthood October 29, 2011 June 14, 2011 Richard Kent Galloway Susan Moore Prinz Dianna LaMance Deaderick, Deacon Patricia Marie Gotautas, Deacon Thomas Edgar DiMarco December 7, 2011 David Christopher Sibley December 10, 2011 Thomas Al Hipp, Deacon Ennis Whiddon Letters Dimissory Accepted March 1, 2010 C. Alex Barron June 3, 2010 Manney C. Reid June 24, 2010 Roxanne Ruggles September 30, 2010 Jeremy Blauvelt October 10, 2010 Scott Ronald Fleischer February 22, 2011 Sister Ellen Francis Poisson O.S.H. March 1, 2011 Tommy Hicks Tipton March 4, 2011 Mark Treherne Werner September 22, 2011 David W. Wagner November 9, 2011 Jane Hostetter November 9, 2011 Norman McKeithan Turbeville November 9, 2011 Thomas Lee Dudley East Tennessee Arizona Lexington Mississippi South Carolina New York South Carolina Western New York Atlanta Southeast Florida West Texas Virginia Letters Dimissory Issued March 2, 2010 Patricia Steven July 22, 2010 * Robert Jemonde Taylor September 30, 2010 Philip Conrad Linder Sent March 31, 2011 Theodore W. Duvall April 4, 2011 Allan Cole August 16, 2011 Linda Sue vonRautenkrantz August 16, 2011 Mary Catherine Young October 17, 2011 Robert A. Horowitz November 8, 2011 * Richard Kent Galloway Atlanta Dallas Atlanta South Carolina Colorado Fond du Lac New York South Carolina Kentucky * indicates date sent from EDUSC but not Date of Record (date received in Accepting Diocese) Page 112 Canonical Consents 2010 The Rev. William Andrew Waldo The Rev. Norman Prior The Rev. Ian Theodore Douglas, PhD. The Rev. Michael Joseph Hanley The Rev.. Canon Diane M. Bruce Jardin The Rev.. Morris King Thompson The Rev. James B. Magness The Rev. David Earle Bailey The Rev. John Sheridan Smylie The Rev. Dr. Michael Louis Vono The Rev. Mark Andrew Lattime The Rev, Terry Allen White The Rev. Scott B. Hayashi The Rev. Daniel Hayden Martins The Rev. Michael Pierce Milliken Canonical Consents 2011 The Rev. Rayford Jeffrey Ray The Rev. Ralph William Franklin The Rev. Martin Scott Field The Rev Daniel Martins The Rev Michael Milliken Bishop of East Tennessee Bishop Coadjutor of Virginia Bishop Coadjutor of New York Bishop Coadjutor of Haiti Bishop of Nebraska Bishop of Washington, DC Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire Page 113 2010 Journal of The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo 2010 was a year of challenges and adventure. My goal was to see as much as possible, meet as many people as possible, and attend as many meetings as my schedule would allow. Mary and I attended the School for New Bishops and Bishops’ Spouses in Richmond, Virginia in mid-January. My last Sunday at Trinity, Excelsior, in Minnesota was February 14, and we flew to New York for our son James’s recital less than a week later. We returned from New York, closed on our house in Minnesota on March 10, the movers arrived on March 26, and worked through Palm Sunday and into Holy Week. Mary and I left for Columbia where we rented an apartment temporarily. April I began meeting with clergy and lay leaders in Upper South Carolina on April 8 and attended St. Timothy’s, Columbia on April 11. I began meeting one-on-one with diocesan staff the week of April 13 as together we sought to determine the needs of Upper South Carolina and ways we could best meet those needs. I had meetings throughout the week and worshipped at Grace Church, Camden, on April 18. Monday, April 19 was the anniversary of my Ordination to Priesthood. We held Clergy Business Day on April 20, meetings throughout the week, and a Leadership Day on Saturday, April 24. I attended St. John’s, Columbia, on April 25. I spent the next week in the office meeting with individuals until Thursday when I traveled to St. Simon’s Island for LARCUM. May May 1 brought another Leadership Day and another opportunity to hear the exciting ministries of our churches and to hear both the joys and the challenges of our leaders. Saturday May 10 was Founder’s Day at York Place. I had a conference call with Diocesan Executive Committee on Monday, May 4, then left the next day for a quiet retreat at the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in preparation for my consecration. I returned to South Carolina on Monday, May 10, had meetings throughout the week and attended worship at Still Hopes on Sunday, May 16. Friday, May 21, we were in Greenville for the pre-Consecration BBQ, and the Consecration at Christ Church on May 22, which was a glorious occasion. I left Monday, May 24, for “Living into Our Vows” at Lake Logan in NC. This was the second of three sessions of “Baby Bishops’ School.” My first visitation as the 8th Bishop of Upper South Carolina was to Trinity Cathedral in Columbia. June I was back in the office the following week, ordained two transitional deacons on the 3rd at St. Mary’s, Columbia, and held a third Leadership Day on Saturday, June 5. I was in residence in the Piedmont Convocation June 9-10, held a Leadership Day (evening) on the 10th in Clinton, and attended the Diocesan Executive Council meeting on June 12 in Spartanburg. Mary and I celebrated our wedding anniversary on June 13 while making a visitation to St. John’s, Congaree, in Hopkins. Page 114 June 14-15 were moving days, and we were thrilled to be settling into our new home. I was in the office for meetings Wednesday through Friday, then attended the fourth Leadership Day of the year on Saturday, June 19 and made a visitation to St. Francis, Greenville on June 20. I met with diocesan staff on Tuesday, June 22, left for Atlanta on June 23, and flew to Haiti on June 24, returning on Monday, June 28. I began meeting with my Personnel Advisory Committee. July July was the first month that I felt like I was not travelling constantly. I visited St. Philip’s, Greenville, on the 11th, St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg, on the 18th, and St. Stephen’s, Ridgeway, on the 25th. My birthday was July 17. I held informational meetings with the congregation of Trinity Cathedral on the 22nd and 25th, and had dinner with DYLC on the 30th at St. John’s, Shandon, in Columbia. I had meetings throughout the month with clergy, lay leaders, commission chairs and full commissions, and diocesan staff. August I met with DRYV on the 5th and visited St. Paul’s, Batesburg, on the 8th.he last week in August had me back in the office with a full meeting schedule. I was on vacation August 12th-27th, and met with the Trinity Vestry on Saturday, August 28th. Jane Goldsmith had foot surgery and retired while I was on vacation, and Mary Weston replaced her as my executive assistant. September The Executive Committee of Diocesan Executive Council met on the 2nd, I participated in Convocation at Heathwood Hall, and was in residence in the Gravatt Convocation on the 9th. Diocesan Executive Council met on the 11th, and I visited St. Bart’s, Augusta, on the 12th. Mary and I flew to Phoenix, Arizona, on the 13th for the Fall House of Bishops meeting, returning on the 22nd. I celebrated at the ECW Regional Meeting at St. Mary’s, Columbia, on the 25th and visited Our Saviour, Rock Hill, on the 26th. The Fall Clergy Conference was held September 27-29 at Gravatt, and I travelled from there to an evening vestry meeting at Ascension, followed by Catawba Residency in Fort Mill on the 30th. October On the 2nd and 3rd, my travels took me from Columbia to Clinton for the Bishop’s Interview and Discernment Committee meeting, then on to Anderson where I spent the night and visited Grace Church on Sunday. From there, I drove to Holy Cross, Simpsonville, for the Foothills Chili Cook-off then returned home. On the 5th, I met over lunch with the longrange planning committee and celebrated the closing Eucharist for Cursillo at Gravatt on the 10th. I meet with many people and tried to carve out time to prepare for the Seating of the Bishop in the Cathedral and the 88th Diocesan Convention at Trinity, October 15-16. On the 17th, I consecrated the organ at Still Hopes in West Columbia. On the 22nd, we attended “Under the Tent,” a fundraiser for Gravatt held in Columbia, then visited St. John’s, Shandon, in Columbia on the 24th. That afternoon, we took time for a ride on the steam train in Ridgeway. I celebrated the Opening Eucharist at the Cursillo National Convention in Myrtle Beach on the 29th, attended the Deacons’ Retreat on the 30th, visited St. Martin’sin-the-Fields on the 31st, and then flew to Minneapolis for a few days of vacation. Page 115 November November showed no signs of slowing, with the 4th finding me celebrating the Eucharist for the 150th Anniversary of Trinity, Abbeville. I visited St. Thaddeus, Aiken, on the 7th joined ECW leadership for the annual luncheon with staff on the 9th, and participated in my first DEC orientation at Gravatt on the 12th and 13th. I visited St. Mary’s, Columbia, on the 14th and officiated at the Diocesan Choir Festival Evensong at Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, that afternoon. On the 17th, we left for the Province IV Bishops’ meeting in Miami, returning on the 20th. On the 21st, I visited St. Luke’s, Columbia, and celebrated that afternoon at the HIV/AIDS Healing Service at St. Mary’s, Columbia. December I visited Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, on December 1st, for four services with the students. After meeting sin the office on the 2nd, I travelled to Aiken for an evening celebration of Holy Eucharist and Confirmation at St. Augustine. DEC met on the 5th, and I visited advent, Spartanburg, on the 5th. We went back to New York the 7th -10th for Church Pension Group Training for Bishops and then on to Simpsonville for Visitation at Holy Cross on the 12th. On the 16th, I spoke to the Daughters of the Holy Cross at Trinity, Columbia, met with candidates for the position of Canon to the Ordinary, and visited Grace, Camden, on the 19th. I celebrated my first Christmas Eve services (7:00 and 11:00 pm) in the newly restored Trinity Cathedral. The Diocesan office closed on December 24 and remained closed until New Year’s Day. Page 116 2011 Journal of The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo In 2011, I began to develop more of a routine. The general flow of my week included visitations and Confirmations on Sunday, a day off on Monday, in the office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and at home on Friday to study and write. Many Saturdays were busy with meetings. After several variations, we have settled into the routine of a two-hour staff meeting on Tuesday afternoon and an hour meeting with the canon staff, communications consultant, and my executive assistant on Thursday afternoon. Since I expect staff to support diocesan ministries and be resources to our clergy and lay leaders, we communicate regularly, share information, and maintain confidentiality in our discussions. I try to balance the need to be accessible to the clergy and leadership in Upper South Carolina with obligations outside the diocese. Our ministries in Cange are critical, and I want to travel annually to Haiti. I am in the third, and final, year of “Living our Vows” – known to some as “Baby Bishop’s School.” The House of Bishops meets twice a year – once in the Spring and the Fall – as do the Province IV Bishops. Knowing what it meant to me for bishops from other dioceses to be present for my consecration, it is important for me to attend other consecrations, as scheduling permits. Board meetings are also important to me, although I have had to miss many because of my travel schedule and other obligations. I had hoped to attend Clericus meetings regularly, but time did not permit it this year. Renewal weekends such as Happening and Cursillo are important to me, as well, and I attended closings whenever possible. At this stage in my Episcopacy, priority in appointment scheduling goes (in no particular order) to priests, deacons, bishops, wardens, search committee leaders, leadership of Diocesan committees and institutions, and staff. My staff is asked to field many of the additional meeting requests we receive. Between appointments and meetings of committees, boards, and commissions, little time remains for reflection and writing (sermons, pastoral letters, reflections for retreats and conferences, etc.). I find that there are not enough hours in the day or days in the week. Of course, prayer centers my life. During 2011, I visited 30 churches, with the goal of completing the cycle of visits to all 61 churches within the first two years of my Episcopacy. A typical visit includes celebrating and preaching for one or two services, a forum with the congregation during the Sunday School hour, gathering/reception/informal luncheon with the congregation following the service(s), and a meeting with the vestry/mission committee. The day often begins before 7:00 am and ends after 3:00 pm, depending on the travel distances. Keeping in touch with and being accessible to the clergy is a priority, so I try to be available when needed. It helps considerably when my assistant is informed of the issues and urgency of clergy requests so they can be addressed in a timely fashion. A monthly synopsis of 2011 follows, although routine meetings, including those with candidates for almost 20 openings (including staff), are not included. The schedule of Visitations is also included. Page 117 January The month began with a gathering of retired clergy and spouses, giving us another opportunity to become better acquainted. This was followed by delivery of the Benediction at the Prayer Service in Trinity Cathedral prior to the Inauguration of Governor Nikki Haley. Considerable time was spent interviewing candidates for the position of Canon to the Ordinary. I met with a bishop, priests, deacons, wardens, and diocesan leaders, and stood for official photographs in the vestments of the Episcopacy. I officiated at the wedding of one of our clergy, and participated in the LARCUM Prayer Service and hosted the dinner for the bishops. A longrange planning committee was initiated. I also managed to fit in a brief visit to Minnesota to meet our new grandchild and visit Mary’s mother, Betty Halverson, who was in declining health. February At the end of January, I travelled to England for the Canterbury Conference for bishops in the early years of their Episcopacy. For ten days, I was in community with bishops from around the Anglican Communion, cultivating new friendships and gaining a deeper understanding of the tensions that form our differences. I attended the Diocesan Youth Leadership Meeting, met with Kanuga leadership, attended the funerals of two clergy, and officiated at the Installation of a new rector. The topic for the Pre-Lenten Clergy Retreat at Gravatt was “A Long Loving Look at the Real: Discernment for Life,” led by Dr. Amy Sander-Montanez. In addition, I shared reflections from my time in Canterbury. March To center my thoughts and prepare for the 1st Theological Council, I took a three-day retreat aboard Amtrak. While travelling to Washington, DC, Charlottesville, through West Virginia to Chicago and back to Greenville, I spent time reading, reflecting, writing, or preparing. I celebrated at the noonday Ash Wednesday service at Trinity Cathedral, attended the Kanuga Board meeting with Bishop Duvall, and attended the DEC, Partnership Cange, and a joint meeting of the Commissions on the Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Church. I went back to Kanuga for a short-course on Title IV, which met for two days prior to the Spring House of Bishops meeting. The Rev. Tommy Tipton joined the diocesan staff as Canon to the Ordinary. April The First Theological Council convened April 8-9 at Christ Church, Greenville. The purpose of this Council was to engage in substantive Biblical and theological dialogue on norms for how we are in relationship with one another and to practice these norms in a dialogue on human sexuality. Facilitators from across the diocese were trained and led the table conversations which were both honest and respectful. During Holy Week, the Renewal of Vows service, distribution of oils, and luncheon were held at Trinity Cathedral, and I delivered the meditation at the Wednesday noonday service. I celebrated at the 6:00 am vigil and other Easter services at the Cathedral. I also spoke to the staff of St. Lawrence Place on wellness. Conversations began about the search process for the Cathedral Dean, and I attended the New Beginnings dinner at Gravatt. Page 118 May The first three weeks of the month were full of meetings and appointments. I attended a Province IV Task Force meeting in Atlanta and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree at Sewanee commencement. I dined with Province IV Deployments Officers who convened in Columbia and with VOCARE participants at St. David’s, Columbia. Two deacons were ordained in Trinity Cathedral, and the long-range planning committee began work. I attended a Heathwood Hall Board meeting. At the end of May, I traveled to Lake Logan for the second of three installments of “Living Our Vows” (College for Bishops) and returned for Heathwood Hall’s graduation. June My wife, Mary, and I enjoyed Holy Eucharist and a picnic at the Convent of the Order of St. Helena in Augusta. Two transitional deacons were ordained at Trinity Cathedral, and one priest was ordained at St. Michael’s and All Angels, Columbia. Staff reviewed their responsibilities with Fresh Start participants, and several of us participated in the retreat for the Trinity Vestry and Search Committee. DEC met, I attended a meeting of the Greater Columbia Community Relations Council, and celebrated the closing Eucharist at the Association of Anglican Musicians’ Conference in Greenville. Five-and-a-half days were spent at the Province IV Bishops’ and Synod Meetings at Kanuga. Mary and I took several days at the end of the month/beginning of July for a visit to Minnesota, where I also attended some of the EYE Conference in Minneapolis. Bethany Human left the Diocesan Staff for another position. July Thanks to the generosity of Bishop Lawrence, I spent 2 ½ days on retreat at St. Christopher’s Conference Center to reflect and prepare for the strategic visioning retreat in August. Other significant meetings included preparation for the Heathwood Hall Head of School search, a two-day Commission on Ministry retreat at Gravatt, the Gravatt board retreat at Gravatt, and a second retreat for the vestry and search committee of Trinity Cathedral. In the midst of all this, I did stop to celebrate my birthday mid-month, and had lunch and blobbed with campers at Gravatt. August While churches were preparing to start a new church-school year, took a few days of vacation before returning to focus on strategic visioning. The Strategic Visioning task force met at Lake Logan for two days, August 19-20 to build a framework for the group’s work. From there, I flew to back to Minnesota for the two-and-a-half-day meeting of the Gathering of Leaders. Ms. Alisha Hudson joined the diocesan staff on August 22 as an administrative assistant. I also met with York Place leadership to discuss transition. September I toured Fort Jackson with an Army chaplain, completed my Visitation Customary to share at Clergy Retreat, participated in HHES Convocation, attended the Luncheon Club, and participated in a 9/11 Memorial Service at Trinity Cathedral. I spent 10 days in Quito, Ecuador, for the Fall House of Bishops meeting and where I also spent time with Cameron Graham Vivanco and Laura Jennings Estévez. I returned from Quito and ordained two deacons at Holy Cross, Simpsonville. At the end of the month, we spent two days at Kanuga for Fall Clergy Conference focused on “Forming the People of God as… Pastor, Priest, Teacher … Servant, Page 119 Interpreter, Teacher.” The conference featured Joanne Melvin, Director of the Suzuki Talent Education Society, Calgary, Ontario, who shared the process of Suzuki formation. Rains flooded the first floor of the Diocesan House, so everything had to be relocated to the second floor. The Rev. Tommy Tipton left employment at the Diocesan House. October Betty D. Halverson, Mary’s mother, passed away on September 19, and we flew to Minnesota for the funeral service on October 1. I met with residents at Still Hopes and participated in the funeral of a clergy member. The LARCUM Bishops’ Dialog was held at Lutheran Seminary, Columbia, with Immigration as the topic for discussion. The 89th Diocesan Convention was held October 22 at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church in Aiken and was co-hosted by St. Augustine of Canterbury Church. A priest was ordained at Advent, Spartanburg, at the end of the month. November I spent three days in New York and had the opportunity to meet with the Presiding Bishop. All staff enjoyed our annual lunch with ECW Board members ECW traveled to Washington, DC, for the consecration of the Rev. Mariann Budde, who was on my Credo team. I presented a program on trains at the SC Archives, participated in the two-day Diocesan Executive Council orientation at Gravatt, and met with the VOCARE committee. Thanksgiving provided a short break before travelling to Memphis for the five-day Province IV Bishops meeting. December December marked the beginning of searches for the Dean of Trinity Cathedral and the Head of School for Heathwood Hall and the multitude of meetings that both entailed. A priest was ordained at Church of the Ridge (Trinity, Edgefield), and we enjoyed the annual luncheon with retired priests and spouses at the Palmetto Club. I spent an afternoon in Charleston in conversation with other bishops and went back five days later for the LARCUM Prayer Vigil and press conference following the court’s decision on immigration. The search began for the Canon for Christian Formation. I celebrated and preached at two Christmas Eve services at the Cathedral and enjoyed an elegant dinner with the choir in between. Closure of the Diocesan House through January 1st provided a welcome break. Page 120 Clergy Submitting Non-parochial Reports In accordance with Title I Canon 6 Section 2 of the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church the following clergy submitted Non-parochial Reports in 2010 & 2011: 2010 The Rev. George I. Chassey The Rev. Peter W. Hawes The Rev. Edward G. Meeks The Rev. William H. Walters 2011 The Rev. C. Alex Barron, Jr. The Rev. David E. Bridgforth The Rev. Grahame Butler-Nixon The Rev. George I. Chassey The Rev. Marie Cope The Rev. G. Milton Crum, Jr. The Rev. James R. Cullipher The Rev. Peter W. Hawes The Rev. Alice Haynes The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr. The Rev. Preston B. Huntley, Jr. The Rev. B. Wayne Kinyon The Rev. Jeffrey W. Meadowcroft The Rev. Edward G. Meeks The Rev. Prescott E. Nead, III The Rev. J. Blaney Pridgen The Rev. Georg Retzlaff The Rev. Mary Moore Mills Roberson The Rev. D. Eric Schnaufer The Rev. William E. Thompson, Jr. The Rev. Henry E. Tollison The Rev. Kenneth M. Tucker The Rev. William H. Walters The Rev. Philip H. Whitehead Page 121 NECROLOGY 2010 House of Bishops Bishop’s Name Diocese of The Rt. Rev. John H. Burt, retired Ohio The Rt. Rev. C. Charles Vaché, retired Southern Virginia The Rt. Rev. Robert Rowley, Jr., retired NW Pennsylvania The Rt. Rev. G. Paul Reeves, retired Georgia The Rt. Rev. Robert H. Cochrane, retired Olympia The Rt. Rev. Harry B. Bainbridge, retired Idaho The Rt. Rev. Leigh Allen Wallace, Jr., retired Spokane The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith, retired New Hampshire Diocese of Upper South Carolina Clergy Name Date of Record The Rev. John Herbert Waldrop March 28, 2010 Page 122 NECROLOGY 2011 House of Bishops Bishop’s Name Diocese of Date The Rt. Rev. Richard L. Shimpfky, resigned El Camino Real February 28, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Robert M. Anderson, resigned Minnesota May 3, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Walter C. Righter, resigned Iowa September 11, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Bertram N. Herlong, resigned Tennessee October 21, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Elliott L. Sorge, resigned Easton December 6, 2011 Diocese of Upper South Carolina Clergy Name Date The Rev. Withers Waller Caldwell October 7, 2011 The Rev. Thomas Carson December 10, 2011 The Rev. Donald E. Chapman March 22, 2011 The Rev. Terry R. Cobb August 11, 2011 The Rev. Mellie H. Hickey February 18, 2011 The Rev. Paul R. Long August 11, 2011 The Rev. Robert H. Long February 22, 2011 The Rev. Carolyn H. West October 2, 2011 Page 123 The Diocese of Upper South Carolina 2010 PARISH & MISSION OFFICERS Printed 2/28/2011 THE GEORGE M. ALEXANDER DIOCESAN HOUSE THE RT. REV. W. ANDREW WALDO, BISHOP 1115 Marion St.; Columbia, SC 29201 Telephone: 803-771-7800, 800-889-6961; Fax: 803-799-5119 Email: [email protected]; Web Site: www.edusc.org ABBEVILLE AIKEN Trinity Episcopal Church, Abbeville Convocation: Gravatt 200 Church Street, Abbeville Phone: 864-366-5186 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://trinityabbesc.org/ St. Augustine of Canterbury, Aiken Convocation: Gravatt Vicar The Rev'd Leslie Sargent Drake 1630 Silver Bluff Road, Aiken , SC 29803 Phone: 803-641-1913 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.staugustinesaiken.org/ Senior Warden Ms. Cynthia B Jefferies [email protected] 864 942-2850 Junior Warden Mr. John B Pullin [email protected] 864-366-3397 Senior Warden Mr. Tom Williams [email protected] 803-642-6702 Junior Warden Mr. Eddie George [email protected] 803-649-1374 Treasurer Mr. Steven C Fulmer [email protected] 803.734.0789 Treasurer Ms. Joan I Donnelly [email protected] 803-642-6954 Page 124 St. Thaddeus Church, Aiken Convocation: Gravatt Rector The Rev'd Grant Buchanan 125 Pendleton Street S.W., Aiken, SC 29801 Phone: 803-648-5497 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stthaddeus.org St. George’s Church, Anderson Convocation: Foothills Long-term The Rev'd David E Bridgforth 2206 East Greenville Street, Anderson, SC Phone: 864-224-1104 E-mail: [email protected] Website: mypeoplepc.com/members/stgeorgee/ Senior Warden Mr. Bob McClure [email protected] 803-642-9319 Junior Warden Mrs. Jennifer Huff [email protected] 803-643-5640 Senior Warden Mr. Bill Johnson [email protected] 864-225-2388 Junior Warden Ms. Joyce Voights [email protected] 678-938-7940 Treasurer Mr. Richard A. Waugh [email protected] 803-648-0417 Treasurer Mr. Leo A. Smith [email protected] 864-376-7899 ANDERSON BATESBURG Grace Episcopal Church, Anderson Convocation: Foothills The Rev'd John B Hardaway, IV Rector 711 South McDuffie Street, Anderson Phone: 864-225-8011 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.gracechurchanderson. St. Paul’s Church, Batesburg Convocation: Gravatt The Rev'd Dr. Teddy John Higgins Priest-in116 S. Perry Street, Batesburg, SC 29006 Phone: 803-532-0950 E-mail: [email protected] Website: n/a Senior Warden Mrs. Julie Bates [email protected] 864 225-3184 Junior Warden Mr. Don Colman [email protected] 864-261-8389 Senior Warden Mr. Harry Long [email protected] 803-532-3388 Junior Warden Mr. Harry Long [email protected] 803-532-3388 Treasurer Mr. Lee M. Hancock [email protected] 864-224-3921 Treasurer Mrs. Mary Long [email protected] 803-532-3388 Page 125 BEECH ISLAND CAMDEN All Saints’, Beech Island Convocation: Gravatt Priest-inThe Rev'd Ellen Poisson, OSH 1595 Williston Rd., Beech Island, SC 29842, Phone: 803-648-1461 E-mail: n/a Website: http://www.allsaintsbeechisland.org/ Grace Episcopal Church, Camden Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Douglas Lloyd Holmes Rector 1315 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020 Phone: 803-432-7621 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.gracechurchcamden.org Senior Warden Ms. Cynthia K Waddell [email protected] 803-827-0595 Junior Warden Mr. Paul Guenveur [email protected] 803-278-4867 Senior Warden Ms. Frances Griggs [email protected] 803-432-6453 Junior Warden Mr. Jim Burns [email protected] 803-432-1515 Treasurer Ms. Barbara Guenveur [email protected] 803-278-4867 Treasurer Mr. Pierce W. Cantey [email protected] 803-432-6148 BOILING SPRINGS CAYCE St. Margaret’s, Boiling Springs Convocation: Piedmont Rector The Rev'd H Alan Leonard 4180 Hwy. 9 North, Boiling Springs Phone: 864-578-3238 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stmargaretsonline.com All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Cayce Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Dr. Georg Retzlaff 1001 Twelfth Street, Cayce, SC 29033 Phone: 803-796-5735 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.allsaintscayce.org Senior Warden Mr. Dean Schaper [email protected] 864 472 5563 Junior Warden Mr. Bob Morrell [email protected] 864 578 7973 Senior Warden Ms. Barbara Robinson [email protected] 803-794-1915 Junior Warden Mr. Mark Eurell Gilliam [email protected] 803-791-9753 Treasurer Mr. Jim Landon [email protected] 864-472-5754 Treasurer Mrs. Mara Ballard [email protected] Page 126 CHAPIN CLEMSON St. Francis of Assisi, Chapin Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Canon J. Philip Purser Rector 735 Old Lexington Highway, Chapin Phone: 803-345-1550 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stfrancischapin.org Holy Trinity, Clemson Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd John S Nieman 193 Old Greenville Highway, Clemson, SC Phone: 864-654-5071 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.holytrinityclemson.org Senior Warden Ms. Sandra A Whiting [email protected] 803-9488022 Junior Warden Mr. Harvey Coleman 803-781-1425 Senior Warden Mr. Phil Maiberger [email protected] 864-654-8322 Junior Warden Mr. Ed Hamilton [email protected] 864-882-1770 Treasurer Mr. Daniel Spencer [email protected] 803-932-2654 Treasurer Ms. Mellie Warner [email protected] 864-654-5080 CHESTER CLINTON St. Mark’s Church, Chester Convocation: Catawba The Rev'd William W Wight 132 Center Street, Chester Phone: 803-581-3273 E-mail: [email protected] Website: n/a All Saints’, Clinton Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Harold E Morgan, III 505 Calvert Avenue, Clinton, SC 29325 Phone: 864-833-1388 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.allsaintsclinton.org Long-term Senior Warden Mr. Sterling A Boyd n/a 803-377-4894 Junior Warden Ms. Gwen Yandell [email protected] 704-458-6113 Senior Warden Mr. Phil Towles [email protected] 864-984-9345 Junior Warden Mr. Harry B Sullivan [email protected] 803-276-0007 Treasurer Ms. Marian R Orr [email protected] 803-581-7432 Treasurer Ms. Kay Addison [email protected] 864-833-5811 Page 127 COLUMBIA Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Chaplain The Rev'd Johnnie M Davis 1 Still Hopes Drive, Columbia Phone: 803-739-5033 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.sceh.org Senior Warden Junior Warden Treasurer Church of the Cross, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Priest-inThe Rev'd J. Lloyd Edwards 7244 Patterson Avenue, Columbia Phone: 803-776-1864 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.cofc.bravehost.com/ Senior Warden Mr. Stanford E. Lacy [email protected] 803-252-5444 Junior Warden Mr. Ray Burns [email protected] 803-776-1036 Treasurer Ms. Connie Lacy [email protected] 803-252-5444 Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Dr. James F Lyon, IV Rector 1512 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201-2907 Phone: 803-779-2960 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.goodshepherdcolumbia. Senior Warden Mr. William Willoughby, II [email protected] 803-739-4727 Junior Warden Ms. Glyn Smith [email protected] 803-776-7252 Treasurer Mr. Robert B Muir [email protected] 803-781-5132 St. David’s, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Robert L Chiles 605 Polo Road, Columbia , SC 29223-2905 Phone: 803-736-0866 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stdavidscolumbia.org Senior Warden Mr. Joseph Smoak [email protected] 803-699-5416 Junior Warden Mr. Dusty Rhodes [email protected] 803-572-3337 Treasurer Ms. Angela Scott [email protected] 803-233-8365 Page 128 St. John’s, Columbia Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd J. Fletcher Montgomery Rector 2827 Wheat Street, Columbia, SC 29205 Phone: 803-799-4767 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stjohnscolumbia.org St. Martin’s-in-the Fields, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Sarah V Johnston 5220 Clemson Avenue, Columbia, SC 29206 Phone: 803-787-0392 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stmartinsinthefields.com Senior Warden Ms. Dana Turner [email protected] 803-834-2520 Junior Warden Mr. Jason Lockhart [email protected] 803-787-3846 Senior Warden Mr. Robert F Askins [email protected] 803-787-1179 Junior Warden Mr. Elliott D Thompson, Jr [email protected] 803-787-1498 Treasurer Mr. Russ McCoy [email protected] 803-771-4011 Treasurer Mr. Ed Kellett [email protected] 803-788-4999 St. Luke’s, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Calvin R Griffin 1300 Pine Street, Columbia, SC 29204 Phone: 803-254-2327 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stlukescolumbia.org St. Mary’s, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd J Blaney Pridgen, III 170 St. Andrews Rd., Columbia, SC 29210 Phone: 803-798-2776 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stmarysepiscopalchurch.org Senior Warden Ms. Corliss Wise [email protected] 803-256-8056 Junior Warden Ms. Frances Goodwin Senior Warden Ms. Patricia A Stout [email protected] 803-361-8812 Junior Warden Mr. Bob Hayden [email protected] 803-926-8881 803-771-4779 Treasurer Mr. Herbert Bynoe [email protected] 803-781-4981 Treasurer Ms. Michele Lyerly 803-781-8177 Page 129 St. Michael & All Angels’, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Paul Eugene Stricklin 6408 Bridgewood Road, Columbia, SC 29206 Phone: 803-782-8080 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stmichaelepiscopal.com Trinity Cathedral, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Interim The Rev'd Stephen M Bolle 1110 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29201 Phone: 803-771-7300 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.trinitysc.org Senior Warden Mr. Jack Evans [email protected] 803-782-4387 Junior Warden Mr. Karl Long [email protected] Senior Warden Mrs. Mary Belser [email protected] 803-799-8540 Junior Warden Mr. Brett Frantz brett.frantz@@firstcitizensonline.com 803-743-9464 Treasurer Ms. Doris Ashworth [email protected] 803-635-1311 Treasurer Mr. James E Smith [email protected] 803-771-6813 St. Timothy’s, Columbia Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Dimitrula Henson 900 Calhoun Street, Columbia, SC 29201 Phone: 803-765-1519 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.sainttimothyscolumbia. Senior Warden Mr. Mike Spicer [email protected] 803-413-7390 Junior Warden Ms. Dawn Jacobs [email protected] 803-479-5388 Treasurer Mr. Dylan Erhart [email protected] 803-253-6762 EASLEY St. Michael’s, Easley Convocation: Foothills 1200 Powdersville Road, Easley, SC 29642 Phone: 864-859-6296 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stmec.org/ Senior Warden Mr. Robert W. Loomis [email protected] 864-878-6871 Junior Warden Ms. Valarie Burgin [email protected] 864-855-0008 Treasurer Ms. Cary Burgin [email protected] 864-855-0008 Page 130 EASTOVER GAFFNEY St. Thomas, Eastover Convocation: Midlands Yelton Road, Eastover Phone: 803-261-2270 E-mail: n/a Website: n/a Church of the Incarnation, Gaffney Convocation: Piedmont The Rev'd Jeannette Newell Gettys Rector 308 College Drive, 29340, Gaffney Phone: 864-489-6183 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.incarnation-gaffney.org Senior Warden Mr. Calvin Woodard [email protected] 803-419-1644 Junior Warden Mr. Calvin Woodard, Sr. Senior Warden Mr. Bobby Love [email protected] 864-487-7256 Junior Warden Ms. LaDonna T. White [email protected] 864-590-9617 803-353-8411 Treasurer Ms. Hellen Duckett 803-786-2791 Treasurer Mr. Robert J Friedman, II [email protected] 864-489-2044 FORT MILL GLENN SPRINGS St. Paul’s, Fort Mill Convocation: Catawba Rector The Rev'd Sarah C. Franklin 501 Pine Street, Fort Mill Phone: 803-547-5968 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stpaulsfortmill.org Calvary Episcopal, Glenn Springs Convocation: Piedmont 3685 Glenn Springs Rd, Hwy 150, Glenn Phone: 864-582-3952 E-mail: [email protected] Website: m/a Senior Warden Ms. Julia Bemis [email protected] 704-587-0523 Junior Warden Ms. Lizann Lutz [email protected] 803-547-5863 Senior Warden Ms. Teresa Shands n/a 864-599-5985 Junior Warden Mr. George Leamy [email protected] 864-582-2803 Treasurer Ms. Susan Leighton [email protected] 803-548-4355 Treasurer Ms. Elizabeth Finney [email protected] 864-542-2196 Page 131 GRANITEVILLE GREENVILLE St. Paul’s , Graniteville Convocation: Gravatt The Rev'd Douglas A. Puckett 1 Hard Street, Graniteville Phone: 803-663-3407 E-mail: [email protected] Website: n/a Christ Church, Greenville Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Harrison Marvin 10 N. Church Street, Greenville, SC 29601 Phone: 864-271-8773 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ccgsc.org Rector Senior Warden Mr. Richard Castles n/a 803-649-2970 Junior Warden Ms. Linda Puckett [email protected] 803-663-9457 Senior Warden Mr. Milton Bates [email protected] 864-322-6180 Junior Warden Mr. Richard Edward Hassold [email protected] 864-271-7303 Treasurer Mr. Steven Peterson Treasurer Mr. William S Hummers [email protected] 864-292-2761 803-663-4741 GREAT FALLS St. Peter’s , Great Falls Convocation: Catawba Vicar The Rev'd Susan M Wight Hampton Street, Great Falls, SC 29055, Great Phone: 803-482-6755 E-mail: [email protected] Senior Warden Dr. H.C. Starnes [email protected] 803-482-2540 Junior Warden Mr. Hank Starnes 803-482-7148 Treasurer Mr. Frank Johnson [email protected] 803-482-2895 Church of the Redeemer, Greenville Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Robert A Horowitz 120 Mauldin Rd., Greenville SC 29605, Phone: 864-277-4562 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.churchoftheredeemer.com Senior Warden Ms. Carol Hallman [email protected] 864-244-0867 Junior Warden Mr. Edward Roberts [email protected] 864-299-1912 Treasurer Mr. Amos Irwin [email protected] 864-963-4962 Page 132 St. Andrew’s, Greenville Convocation: Foothills The Rev'd John Gilbert Garland, Rector 1002 South Main St., Greenville Phone: 864-235-5884 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.standrewsgreenville.org St. James, Greenville Convocation: Foothills The Rev'd David Geoffrey Taylor Rector 301 Piney Mountain Road, Greenville, SC Phone: 864-244-6358 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stjamesgreenville.org Senior Warden Mr. Jeff Outten n/a 864-235-5884 Junior Warden Ms. Patty C Slay [email protected] 864.303.0727 Senior Warden Mr. George C Lafaye [email protected] 864-242-2453 Junior Warden Mr. William C Wells [email protected] 864-244-5098 Treasurer Ms. Maggie Gregga [email protected] 864-235-5884 Treasurer Mr. Joseph Charles Long, Sr. [email protected] 864-268-2759 St. Francis, Greenville Convocation: Foothills Vicar The Rev'd Robert C Taylor St. Francis Episcopal Church, 301 Piney Phone: 864-244-4510 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stfrancisgreenville.com/ St. Peter’s, Greenville Convocation: Foothills The Rev'd Furman Lee Buchanan Priest-in910 Hudson Road, Greenville Phone: 864-268-7280 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stpetersgreenville.com/ Senior Warden Ms. Gale R. Clark [email protected] 864-213-9070 Junior Warden Mr. Eduardo Zacarias Senior Warden Mr. Wesley Alan Smith [email protected] 864-676-9781 Junior Warden Ms. Sally Armstrong [email protected] 864.991.5714 Treasurer Ms. Silene Avendano [email protected] 864-294-8718 Treasurer Mr. John L. Faulkner [email protected] 864-292-0523 Page 133 St. Philip’s , Greenville Convocation: Foothills 31 Allendale Lane, 29607, Greenville Phone: 864-271-1382 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stphilipsgreenville.org/ Senior Warden Mr. James L Martin [email protected] 864-277-2991 Junior Warden Ms. Rogers Stinson [email protected] Treasurer Ms. Mary Joyce Thompson 864-277-5764 GREENWOOD Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood Convocation: Gravatt Rector The Rev'd Nicholas M Beasley 700 S. Main Street, 29649, Greenwood Phone: 864-223-5426 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.episcopalgreenwood.org Senior Warden Mr. D. Hughes [email protected] 864-229-4687 Junior Warden Mr. Jason Haigler [email protected] 864-227-8868 Treasurer Ms. Connie Hammett [email protected] 864-223-3421 GREER Church of the Good Shepherd, Greer Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Michael Schnatterly 200 Cannon Street, 29651, Greer Phone: 864-877-2330 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.goodshepherdgreer.org/ Senior Warden Mr. W. R. Hindman [email protected] 864-879-4343 Junior Warden Ms. Alice Hill [email protected] 864-801-3465 Treasurer Mr. Karl W Moore [email protected] 864-895-6875 HOPKINS St. John’s, Hopkins Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Jeremy David Blauvelt Rector 1151 Elm Savannah Road, Hopkins, SC 29061 Phone: 803-776-9292 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stjohnscongaree.org Senior Warden Mr. Charles L McCaskill [email protected] 803-776-2548 Junior Warden Mr. James Fowles [email protected] 803-353-3273 Treasurer Ms. Anne Lott [email protected] 803-776-1485 Page 134 IRMO LANCASTER St. Simon & St. Jude, Irmo Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Mark Anthony 1110 Kinley Road, Irmo Phone: 803-732-0153 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ecsssj.org/ Christ Episcopal Church, Lancaster Convocation: Catawba Priest-inThe Rev'd Gordon Hamilton 534 Plantation Road, 29720, Lancaster Phone: 803-286-5224 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.christchurchlancaster.com Rector Senior Warden Mrs. Caroline E. V. Armstrong [email protected] 803-749-9216 Junior Warden Mr. Arthur D. Strudwick [email protected] 803-407-0571 Senior Warden Mr. Taylor Stephens [email protected] 803-285-8827 Junior Warden Mr. Mike Sistare [email protected] 803-285-6785 Treasurer Ms. Pat Hile [email protected] 803-216-0623 Treasurer Mr. Christopher L. Smith JENKINSVILLE LAURENS St. Barnabas , Jenkinsville Convocation: Midlands Priest-inThe Rev'd Glenn Gould St. Barnabus Road, Jenkinsville Phone: 803-635-4995 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stbarnabasusc.org/ Church of the Epiphany, Laurens Convocation: Foothills The Rev'd Susan Louttit Hardaway Priest-in225 West Main Street, Laurens, SC 29360 Phone: 864-984-7000 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.epiphanyoflaurens.org Senior Warden Mr. Wade Peay, Jr n/a 803-635-6869 Junior Warden Mr. Gordon A Pauling [email protected] Senior Warden Mr. Edgar Taylor [email protected] 864-984-6726 Junior Warden Ms. Harriett Barksdale 803-283-2939 864-682-8089 Treasurer Mr. Raye O’Neal Boyd [email protected] 803-635-4607 Treasurer Mr. George Love 864-984-4786 Page 135 LEXINGTON NORTH AUGUSTA St. Alban’s, Lexington Convocation: Midlands The Rev'd Leslie Howard Maltby Rector 403 Park Road, Lexington, SC 29072, Phone: 803-359-2444 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stalbanschurch.net St. Bartholomew’s, North Augusta Convocation: Gravatt The Rev'd David F.O. Thompson Rector 471 West Martintown Road, North Augusta, Phone: 803-279-4622 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.saintbart.org Senior Warden Mr. David Dunnagan [email protected] 803-951-3924 Junior Warden Mr. Craig Giles [email protected] 803-957-9834 Senior Warden Ms. Carolyn Barfield [email protected] 803-279-1969 Junior Warden Mr. Robert Connelly [email protected] Treasurer Mr. Mark FitzMaurice [email protected] 803-356-0962 Treasurer Ms. Helen Scott [email protected] 803-278-1486 NEWBERRY RIDGEWAY St. Luke’s, Newberry Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd Mamie Elizabeth 1605 Main Street, Newberry , SC 29108 Phone: 803-276-4891 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stlukesnewberry.org St. Stephen’s, Ridgeway Convocation: Midlands Long-term The Rev'd Robert William 335 Longtown Road, Ridgeway Phone: 803-337-2905 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ststephenssc.org/ Senior Warden Mr. John Wagner [email protected] 803-276-3205 Junior Warden Ms. Susan Harrison [email protected] 803-924-0080 Senior Warden Ms. JoAnn Palmer [email protected] 803-337-3394 Junior Warden Mr. George Langdale [email protected] 803-754-1693 Treasurer Mr. Dave Carey [email protected] 803-276-7655 Treasurer Ms. Carolyn P Babb [email protected] 803-337-8913 Page 136 ROCK HILL SENECA Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill Convocation: Catawba Rector The Rev'd Dr. Charles S Foss 144 Caldwell Street, Rock Hill, SC 29730-4534 Phone: 803-327-1131 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oursaviourrockhill.org Church of the Ascension, Seneca Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Carol Anne Phillips 214 Northhampton Road, Seneca, SC 29672 Phone: 864-882-2006 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ascension-seneca.org/ Senior Warden Dr. Nick Ross [email protected] 803-366-2095 Junior Warden Mr. Phil Okey [email protected] 803-327-0646 Senior Warden Mr. Sid Bryson [email protected] 864-638-0409 Junior Warden Mrs. Lelia Walker [email protected] 864-654-4864 Treasurer Mr. Charles M. Redfern, III [email protected] 803-327-6427 Treasurer Ms. Connie A Spencer [email protected] 864-944-0779 St. Matthias, Rock Hill Convocation: Catawba Vicar The Rev'd Alice Smith Haynes 535 Hollis Lakes Rd. 29732, Rock Hill Phone: 803-981-5334 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.saintmatthiasrockhill.org Senior Warden Ms. Christine E Johnson [email protected] 803-627-0084 Junior Warden Mr. Eugene Meyer [email protected] 803-817-6349 Treasurer Ms. Yvonne Schroeder [email protected] 803-328-5814 SIMPSONVILLE Holy Cross, Simpsonville Convocation: Foothills Rector The Rev'd Michael Patrick 205 East College Street, Simpsonville Phone: 864-967-7470 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.holycrossep.org/ Senior Warden Mr. Mark McGrail [email protected] 864-236-5534 Junior Warden Mr. Fred Whitmire, Sr. [email protected] 864-876-2291 Treasurer Mr. Gary Dicer [email protected] 864-963-2066 Page 137 SPARTANBURG Church of the Advent, Spartanburg Convocation: Piedmont Rector The Rev'd J Edward Morris 141 Advent Street, Spartanburg, SC 29302 Phone: 864-585-2268 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.churchofadvent.org Senior Warden Mr. John Dargan [email protected] 864-583-8782 Junior Warden Mr. Craig Williams [email protected] 864-579-9450 Treasurer Mr. Bruce Schwartz [email protected] 864-579-9606 Church of the Epiphany, Spartanburg Convocation: Piedmont Long-term The Rev'd Henry E Tollison 121 Ernest L. Collins Avenue, Spartanburg E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.epiphanyspartanburg. Senior Warden Mr. Thomas Middleton [email protected] 864-582-8697 Junior Warden Ms. Walters H Wofford [email protected] 864-582-3171 Treasurer Ms. Walters H Wofford [email protected] 864-582-3171 St. Christopher’s, Spartanburg Convocation: Piedmont The Rev'd Joseph Kershaw Smith Vicar 400 Dupre Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29307 Phone: 864-585-2858 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stchrisonline.org Senior Warden Mr. Mitch Slade [email protected] 864-582-4212 Junior Warden Mr. William F. Canny [email protected] 864-579-1397 Treasurer Ms. Ruth Anne Hickerson [email protected] 864-579-4019 St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg Convocation: Piedmont Rector The Rev'd Robert L Brown 101 St. Matthew’s Lane, Spartanburg, SC 29301 Phone: 864-576-0424 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stmattsepiscopal.com Senior Warden Mr. Will Boyd [email protected] 864-576-8158 Junior Warden Mr. Johnny Kay [email protected] 864-576-2545 Treasurer Mr. Jeff Jennings [email protected] 864-587-7237 Page 138 TRENTON WINNSBORO Church of the Ridge, Trenton Convocation: Gravatt PO Box 206, 117 Watson Street, Trenton, SC Phone: 803-275-3934 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.churchoftheridge.org St. John’s Episcopal Church, Winnsboro Convocation: Midlands Rector The Rev'd James Edward 301 W. Liberty Street, Winnsboro, SC 29180 Phone: 803-635-4398 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stjohnswinnsboro.org/ Senior Warden Ms. Sarah B. Schwarz [email protected] 803-685-7961 Junior Warden Mr. Lee Holmes Senior Warden Mr. Walter H. Deierlein [email protected] 803-754-7222 Junior Warden Mr. Harold Jones 803-635-4429 Treasurer Mr. Jerrold j Watson [email protected] 803-685-7881 Treasurer Mr. Tom Chase [email protected] 803-635-6038 UNION YORK Church of the Nativity, Union Convocation: Piedmont P.O. Box 456, Union, SC 29379 Phone: 864-427-8610 E-mail: [email protected] Website: n/a Church of the Good Shepherd, York Convocation: Catawba Rector The Rev'd Robert Kirkland 108 E. Liberty Street, York Phone: 803-684-4021 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.goodshep.net/ Senior Warden Mr. Ralph Lawson [email protected] 864-427-1702 Junior Warden Mr. Phillip Gough [email protected] 864-429-5653 Senior Warden Mr. John Ness [email protected] 803-831-7380 Junior Warden Ms. Jeanne Ferguson [email protected] 803-684-6020 Treasurer Dr. John M Baarcke [email protected] 864-427-0046 Treasurer Mr. Randy Neff [email protected] 803-684-2251 Page 139 Page 140 Page 141 Page 142 Page 143 Page 144 Page 145 Page 146 Page 147 Page 148 Page 149 Page 150 Page 151 Page 152 Page 153 Page 154 Page 155 Actions of Diocesan Executive Council, 2010 March Approved Letter of Agreement for the Bishop-elect, The Rev. Andrew Waldo June Changed the name of the Reedy River Convocation to the Foothills Convocation September Established a Diocesan task Force to formulate and articulate a template for the essential elements of all commission guidelines Accepted the minimum coverage standards report from the Property and Insurance Committee while acknowledging that the committee is confirming the minimum on stained glass / fine art. Approved the recommendation and approval of $10,000 to Trinity Cathedral for repairs and maintenance of Diocesan House, with the treasurer determining the best funding source to use Moved that the Property and Insurance Committee take all steps necessary to market the property and offer for sell the property of ST. Francis, Greenville Approved the recommendation for an Episcopal Pledge for 2011 of 16%, and further that pledge requests not be sent to the churches until after Diocesan Convention Approved the Recommendation that the Diocesan Executive Council approve the Statement of Mission provided by the SOM Committee and that this be the proposed SOM to be voted on at Diocesan Convention December Approved Bishop Waldo’s request to hold an additional convention in 2011, The First Theological Council will provide the diocese with the opportunity to establish norms for conversation and engage in dialogue Approved General Principles and Recommendations for Honorariums and Stipends Page 156 Actions of Diocesan Executive Council, 2011 March Received a structural engineering report regarding Trinity, Abbeville. Requested that Brooks Knobel follow-up with the engineer of record and, if there is any report that the building is unsafe, immediate and appropriate steps be taken to secure the building for all due regards to legal requirements and safety Passed a motion regarding funding and expenses for a chaplain’s ministry at York Place June Approved the sale of the St. Francis, Greenville property and authorized the Canon to the Ordinary to negotiate the sale Approved the Gravatt Conference Center Articles of Incorporation Approved to accept the Procedure for sale of Diocesan Real Property Moved to add a youth staff member to the Statement of Mission and to present a deficit budget September Affirmed and supported the work of the Commission on Ministry Task Force with the Vocational Discernment Process Authorized the dissolution of St. Matthias, Rock Hill and recommended that the Eightyninth Annual Convention of the Diocese take similar action Approved that the sale of St. Francis, Greenville and St. Matthias Rock Hill be designated as non-recurring revenues, with use to be subsequently determined by Diocesan Executive Council December Moved that Title I, Section 4 A of the Canons of The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina be changed in order to eliminate convention delegate penalties to parishes November Council members participated in a strategic visioning process Page 157 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2009 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Clinton Clemson Chester Chapin Cayce Camden Boiling Springs Beech Island Anderson Anderson Aiken Aiken Abbeville City St Martins in the Fields St Lukes Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Cross All Saints Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Francis of Assisi All Saints Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Margarets Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St George Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Thaddeus Episcopal Church St Augustine of Canterbury Trinity Episcopal Church Congregation 605,883 714,196 211,382 964,016 326,589 364,271 0 111,773 546,711 19,734 315,032 134,083 363,674 119,839 59,441 71,036 307,294 618,573 93,041 41,066 Plate & Pledge Income 393,751 624,909 714,196 218,227 990,185 327,222 407,750 0 131,812 548,625 40,374 355,382 134,083 378,586 157,473 87,534 71,074 307,294 666,338 132,041 48,366 Operating Revenue 165,034 443,080 915,060 777,778 258,444 1,207,594 352,453 600,198 0 160,008 825,851 40,924 570,176 138,474 570,321 157,934 87,534 80,639 373,677 754,106 132,041 69,398 Total Revenue 184,172 399,806 618,311 701,555 211,470 904,506 280,310 427,706 0 130,670 557,150 37,795 365,990 139,784 375,236 153,784 79,573 92,836 306,926 760,499 138,848 46,461 Operating Expense 406,770 18,000 20,000 87,875 131,000 38,700 150,054 30,000 50,000 0 21,000 78,906 5,252 55,442 11,500 57,800 2,875 8,069 2,288 51,698 75,000 12,000 14,304 To the Diocese 137,418 7,692 39,675 314,665 4,178 6,892 201,429 95,527 26,095 0 8,832 48,228 2,200 159,990 44,326 10,269 1,857 8,004 0 150 55,076 3,379 12,868 Outreach & Development 2,850,889 187,996 445,587 980,560 835,386 217,562 1,121,951 378,860 439,321 0 140,983 566,455 37,795 439,646 182,581 383,046 153,784 86,537 104,337 373,209 880,035 138,848 59,329 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina Columbia St Marys Episcopal Church 375,849 159,534 2,738,424 EXPENSE Columbia St Michael and All Angels 131,951 2,854,926 REVENUE Columbia St Timothys Episcopal Church 2,746,000 Columbia 2,683,851 22,480 193,029 Trinity Cathedral Church 4,400 10,165 Columbia 2,400 17,575 181,165 17,780 8,160 165,480 182,864 28,380 2,033 20,533 170,174 22,500 179,028 St Michaels Episcopal Church 246,164 164,597 61,261 19,533 St Thomas Church 174,025 147,225 0 146,561 Easley 160,379 142,510 0 13,871 Eastover St Pauls Episcopal Church 138,297 61,261 135,163 Fort Mill Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 61,711 Gaffney 61,711 St Pauls Episcopal Church 61,711 Graniteville Page 158 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2009 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Spartanburg Simpsonville Seneca Rock Hill Rock Hill Ridgeway Pauline North Augusta Newberry Lexington Laurens Lancaster Jenkinsville Irmo Hopkins Greer Greenwood Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Great Falls City Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church of the Advent Holy Cross Episcopal Church Church of the Ascension St Matthias Episcopal Church Episcopal Church of Our Saviour St Stephens Episcopal Church Calvary Episcopal Church St Bartholomews Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church Church of the Epiphany Christ Episcopal Church St Barnabas Episcopal Church Epis Ch of St Simon & St Jude St Johns Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Resurrection St Philips Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church St Francis Episcopal Church St Andrews Episcopal Church Church of the Redeemer Christ Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Congregation 155,195 27,760 1,285,125 419,308 199,347 52,782 440,170 89,851 51,676 365,946 0 231,521 73,129 106,251 27,991 191,776 117,564 128,792 320,072 58,901 375,315 482,343 35,123 176,490 280,848 2,812,068 29,221 Plate & Pledge Income 325,825 254,182 36,068 1,380,886 422,295 201,181 134,819 443,841 95,281 58,847 440,690 0 232,784 90,284 110,478 27,991 215,919 117,564 130,435 358,922 62,774 379,394 495,043 71,144 192,362 298,116 2,891,022 29,221 Operating Revenue 398,399 254,182 36,068 1,864,631 522,722 248,586 142,088 743,660 96,050 58,847 753,725 0 325,871 90,284 112,952 78,576 266,660 132,555 134,307 372,996 78,107 396,784 532,198 157,242 214,498 341,787 3,556,084 29,221 Total Revenue 371,123 220,225 5,093 1,632,084 451,070 228,315 138,604 450,989 85,086 58,847 395,163 0 231,225 86,506 92,435 77,026 210,642 117,564 133,109 343,556 51,272 360,734 483,092 89,249 190,777 295,311 2,882,210 26,584 Operating Expense 45,404 9,000 5,093 219,744 69,211 37,000 6,800 40,716 9,600 7,560 67,407 0 48,240 1,000 19,567 4,200 35,418 20,886 16,000 49,818 11,586 62,820 35,750 938 15,467 22,000 305,460 4,399 To the Diocese 221,606 1,300 1,928 63,464 107,891 33,716 595 337,682 4,300 1,810 179,213 0 58,691 817 7,981 15 11,936 17,965 1,104 23,958 649 27,642 4,830 120,947 3,190 29,581 658,504 1,626 Outreach & Development 561,094 220,225 7,021 1,941,943 551,497 253,053 139,908 805,788 85,086 58,847 583,703 0 291,093 86,719 100,416 78,576 233,980 130,529 134,213 347,630 52,352 376,115 491,526 209,275 194,467 322,161 3,296,806 26,584 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina Spartanburg St Christophers Church Episcopal 288,725 EXPENSE Spartanburg St Matthews Episcopal Church REVENUE Spartanburg Page 159 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2009 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation 113,961 Plate & Pledge Income 53,941 113,961 Operating Revenue 57,400 127,058 Total Revenue 53,775 109,909 Operating Expense 7,219 23,572 To the Diocese 1,725 925 Outreach & Development 56,200 109,909 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina City Episcopal Church of the Ridge 53,236 129,475 EXPENSE Trenton Church of the Nativity 31,325 REVENUE Union 16,308 201,922 95,040 3,600 23,706,225 95,817 33,044 3,174,024 95,817 201,922 2,650,615 91,317 221,191 20,417,025 St Johns Episcopal Church 190,474 24,630,857 Winnsboro 188,084 20,136,657 Church of the Good Shepherd 18,958,594 York Total Page 160 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2010 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Clinton Clemson Chester Chapin Cayce Camden Boiling Springs Beech Island Anderson Anderson Aiken Aiken Abbeville City St Martins in the Fields St Lukes Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Cross All Saints Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Francis of Assisi All Saints Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Margarets Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St George Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Thaddeus Episcopal Church St Augustine of Canterbury Trinity Episcopal Church Congregation 486,937 745,618 201,613 906,530 339,760 365,201 73,513 113,261 500,942 18,744 344,257 0 363,183 120,858 52,675 55,650 317,123 635,325 101,064 41,220 Plate & Pledge Income 342,949 491,208 745,618 208,174 928,122 344,747 372,500 79,513 128,811 501,734 34,164 351,856 0 385,385 157,473 73,230 55,666 317,123 677,944 151,021 42,106 Operating Revenue 211,201 515,668 954,650 831,041 248,391 1,205,696 424,063 422,500 83,148 137,361 779,001 35,806 1,043,024 0 385,385 157,934 73,230 63,022 348,511 861,062 183,058 134,478 Total Revenue 164,827 398,304 509,067 762,658 211,720 900,035 267,388 367,617 79,513 128,936 523,564 30,629 548,301 0 368,313 154,014 65,300 66,258 316,706 763,008 166,797 46,776 Operating Expense 364,770 18,000 2,000 83,832 117,000 30,872 150,305 32,500 33,000 9,910 12,441 87,855 4,700 50,625 0 56,175 2,875 9,578 0 48,501 84,000 12,900 10,950 To the Diocese 121,759 7,535 73,864 376,491 76,435 31,463 211,983 70,846 114,318 3,595 759 48,893 3,494 253,416 0 2,508 1,857 14,144 0 14,563 123,496 2,939 6,556 Outreach & Development 2,796,727 170,030 460,718 947,871 834,234 242,483 1,141,176 365,520 468,617 83,148 137,486 528,229 35,765 620,279 0 373,113 154,014 75,965 75,221 361,517 930,271 167,409 52,982 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina Columbia St Marys Episcopal Church 339,623 158,058 2,735,809 EXPENSE Columbia St Michael and All Angels 119,880 2,683,455 REVENUE Columbia St Timothys Episcopal Church 2,622,537 Columbia 2,603,583 12,340 193,623 Trinity Cathedral Church 1,200 16,906 Columbia 2,400 13,635 256,867 12,340 65,790 152,112 162,974 27,060 2,100 20,369 175,321 16,915 216,893 St Michaels Episcopal Church 255,893 150,146 58,709 20,369 St Thomas Church 177,616 162,926 0 168,720 Easley 163,929 159,200 1,200 16,169 Eastover St Pauls Episcopal Church 149,632 58,534 163,697 Fort Mill Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 54,068 Gaffney 54,068 St Pauls Episcopal Church 51,418 Graniteville Page 161 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2010 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Spartanburg Spartanburg Simpsonville Seneca Rock Hill Ridgeway Pauline North Augusta Newberry Lexington Laurens Lancaster Jenkinsville Irmo Hopkins Greer Greenwood Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Greenville Great Falls City St Christophers Church Episcopal Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church of the Advent Holy Cross Episcopal Church Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church of Our Saviour St Stephens Episcopal Church Calvary Episcopal Church St Bartholomews Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church (2009) Church of the Epiphany Christ Episcopal Church (2009) St Barnabas Episcopal Church Epis Ch of St Simon & St Jude St Johns Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Resurrection St Philips Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church St Francis Episcopal Church St Andrews Episcopal Church Church of the Redeemer Christ Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Congregation 292,299 170,098 28,760 1,368,699 441,336 190,973 406,323 87,544 52,063 336,825 88,877 231,521 68,372 106,251 26,844 174,696 120,308 134,422 333,813 49,821 327,868 506,723 29,103 166,690 293,924 2,701,969 28,875 Plate & Pledge Income 117,049 302,415 268,743 38,264 1,455,972 442,296 204,853 414,658 95,189 52,067 356,527 95,377 232,784 82,345 110,478 26,844 174,696 120,308 135,504 361,265 49,821 333,170 506,841 49,988 187,550 297,674 2,762,961 29,514 Operating Revenue 132,378 502,469 268,743 38,264 1,894,129 620,361 256,218 655,326 95,489 52,067 597,853 95,377 325,871 114,499 112,952 49,794 315,735 156,250 142,511 449,001 68,785 385,933 522,798 62,488 213,911 324,266 3,187,647 29,514 Total Revenue 109,249 339,576 229,399 3,201 1,523,651 565,886 204,853 433,795 88,076 56,730 386,176 108,218 231,225 78,060 92,435 26,844 207,759 120,308 130,174 339,780 44,707 338,891 511,538 69,430 182,441 290,076 2,672,263 25,663 Operating Expense 13,306 44,248 9,600 3,201 224,487 68,985 32,903 36,663 9,600 8,641 45,000 14,401 48,240 4,042 19,567 4,515 22,167 18,922 16,000 51,859 10,869 60,650 35,750 978 2,500 24,200 259,726 4,333 To the Diocese 987 154,634 0 3,054 99,327 5,265 66,920 231,932 31,653 0 386,032 850 58,691 412 7,981 81,850 97,713 14,389 987 25,000 5,103 64,369 6,800 29,815 30,430 34,784 744,498 684 Outreach & Development 109,249 461,426 229,399 6,255 1,847,987 626,583 271,773 670,186 117,394 56,730 803,025 108,218 291,093 78,346 100,416 111,646 294,361 133,847 131,661 369,482 51,003 391,561 519,995 98,595 212,637 320,885 3,269,744 25,663 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina Spartanburg St Matthews Episcopal Church 117,049 EXPENSE Spartanburg Episcopal Church of the Ridge REVENUE Trenton Page 162 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2010 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Plate & Pledge Income 42,760 Operating Revenue 45,490 Total Revenue 47,014 Operating Expense 4,620 To the Diocese 1,520 Outreach & Development 48,934 Total Expense Diocese of Upper South Carolina Congregation 42,030 95,656 EXPENSE City Church of the Nativity 0 REVENUE Union 15,087 222,602 95,656 29,889 23,772,778 96,734 29,048 3,862,479 95,565 193,980 2,428,107 82,565 208,409 19,881,909 St Johns Episcopal Church 164,307 24,513,096 Winnsboro 161,840 19,357,697 Church of the Good Shepherd 18,559,886 York Total Page 163 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Clinton Clemson Chester Chapin Cayce Camden Boiling Springs Beech Island Anderson Anderson Aiken Aiken Abbeville City St Martins in the Fields St Lukes Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Cross All Saints Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Francis of Assisi All Saints Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Margarets Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St George Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Thaddeus Episcopal Church St Augustine of Canterbury Trinity Episcopal Church Congregation 1,209 697 267 1,258 428 339 85 128 696 30 518 257 489 209 30 112 364 586 115 37 Active Members 657 663 168 924 401 339 85 88 432 30 518 195 390 124 30 84 364 766 135 37 Communicants in Good Standing 9 150 34 5 20 52 5 5 10 163 5 3 7 37 20 2 7 34 83 0 7 Others 135 421 266 79 321 161 138 31 52 206 15 176 108 142 83 19 34 161 261 56 26 Average Sunday Attendance 102 183 103 52 139 124 106 52 48 122 52 104 96 106 0 52 52 117 142 45 43 0 5 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 Sunday 16 yrs Eucharists and Older 41 1 1 29 6 2 20 7 3 0 0 5 1 6 5 7 2 0 1 3 8 5 0 Under 16 Years 54 9 6 30 19 0 11 12 4 0 1 7 0 6 4 9 5 2 4 7 15 0 3 Confirmed or Received Baptisms Columbia St Marys Episcopal Church 200 3 Diocese of Upper South Carolina Columbia 204 1 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2009 Columbia St Michael and All Angels 101 Columbia 216 2 72 0 823 5 3 0 2 1 111 1 1 109 0 St Timothys Episcopal Church 0 1 3,535 Trinity Cathedral Church 0 36 8 11 126 Columbia 101 1 4 4,341 Columbia 106 65 102 9 3 2 60 52 1 58 0 36 340 0 1 0 18 99 1 0 6 62 733 108 0 245 1 145 181 0 St Michaels Episcopal Church 75 101 138 100 48 St Thomas Church 312 33 6 127 102 Easley St Pauls Episcopal Church 75 101 2,278 30 96 Eastover Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 33 300 19 37 Fort Mill St Pauls Episcopal Church 3,275 215 0 Gaffney St Peters Episcopal Church 326 225 16 Graniteville Christ Episcopal Church 180 127 Great Falls Church of the Redeemer 291 396 Greenville St Andrews Episcopal Church 57 Greenville St Francis Episcopal Church 151 Greenville 29 Greenville Page 164 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Spartanburg Spartanburg Spartanburg Simpsonville Seneca Rock Hill Rock Hill Ridgeway Pauline North Augusta Newberry Lexington Laurens Lancaster Jenkinsville Irmo Hopkins Greer Greenwood Greenville Greenville Greenville City Episcopal Church of the Ridge St Matthews Episcopal Church St Christophers Church Episcopal Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church of the Advent Holy Cross Episcopal Church Church of the Ascension St Matthias Episcopal Church Episcopal Church of Our Saviour St Stephens Episcopal Church Calvary Episcopal Church St Bartholomews Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church Church of the Epiphany Christ Episcopal Church St Barnabas Episcopal Church Epis Ch of St Simon & St Jude St Johns Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Resurrection St Philips Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church Congregation 56 102 573 125 43 1,643 610 213 80 698 83 76 526 130 348 68 104 70 252 220 153 446 52 476 598 Active Members 51 93 573 125 43 1,468 427 211 59 531 77 58 432 100 303 68 76 72 252 192 143 365 52 461 568 Communicants in Good Standing 2 8 0 0 0 236 12 15 8 70 4 8 32 7 72 3 2 2 0 2 82 150 0 23 130 Others 44 26 45 243 78 20 362 274 90 38 179 35 34 196 56 122 35 45 17 128 80 97 179 28 218 257 Average Sunday Attendance 136 55 27 0 120 51 52 192 157 102 51 106 45 37 168 77 101 53 69 51 106 104 151 106 52 54 158 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 Sunday 16 yrs Eucharists and Older 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 24 7 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 4 9 0 0 7 4 4 8 0 13 9 Under 16 Years 5 1 3 0 0 5 0 29 15 6 9 6 0 1 6 2 4 0 2 2 6 1 0 9 0 14 11 Confirmed or Received Baptisms Spartanburg Church of the Nativity 121 Diocese of Upper South Carolina Trenton 2 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2009 Union 47 510.00 116 377 207 43 116 5,736.00 207 8,291 St Johns Episcopal Church 1,964 Church of the Good Shepherd 21,283 Winnsboro 25,394 York Total Page 165 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Clinton Clemson Chester Chapin Cayce Camden Boiling Springs Beech Island Anderson Anderson Aiken Aiken Abbeville City St Martins in the Fields St Lukes Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Cross All Saints Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Francis of Assisi All Saints Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Margarets Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St George Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Thaddeus Episcopal Church St Augustine of Canterbury Trinity Episcopal Church Congregation 1,255 720 270 1,315 417 349 88 117 504 31 524 257 506 216 30 92 404 580 136 40 Active Members 703 627 165 974 364 310 88 90 423 26 524 251 391 107 27 81 404 715 29 40 Communicants in Good Standing 10 165 13 5 69 50 5 5 15 10 1 4 5 28 3 10 0 28 131 4 8 Others 78 435 260 76 320 160 135 27 43 194 15 166 88 152 101 18 29 167 275 62 36 Average Sunday Attendance 100 156 106 51 139 129 107 53 45 122 50 111 97 103 63 47 50 109 149 48 46 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 3 0 Sunday 16 yrs Eucharists and Older 0 6 18 2 3 23 6 6 0 0 8 1 3 4 6 4 0 0 12 11 4 1 Under 16 Years 24 11 4 38 14 4 24 9 0 0 1 25 2 5 0 17 5 0 0 26 10 10 2 Confirmed or Received Baptisms Columbia St Marys Episcopal Church 200 37 Diocese of Upper South Carolina Columbia 211 1 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2010 Columbia St Michael and All Angels 0 Columbia 41 0 217 0 67 3 3 800 3 0 0 0 0 51 135 0 1 137 St Timothys Episcopal Church 0 58 3,634 Trinity Cathedral Church 100 0 7 137 Columbia 96 27 102 3 0 4,346 Columbia 58 48 0 8 1 40 236 0 0 0 16 0 52 4 8 53 754 0 0 246 1 102 0 2 St Michaels Episcopal Church 75 109 1,512 106 0 St Thomas Church 308 28 136 166 32 Easley St Pauls Episcopal Church 75 109 2,250 101 103 Eastover Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 30 25 103 30 Fort Mill St Pauls Episcopal Church 3,335 250 0 34 108 Gaffney St Peters Episcopal Church 335 0 181 0 Graniteville Christ Episcopal Church 181 16 Great Falls Church of the Redeemer 343 31 Greenville St Andrews Episcopal Church 130 Greenville St Francis Episcopal Church 57 Greenville 163 Greenville Page 166 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Spartanburg Spartanburg Spartanburg Spartanburg Simpsonville Seneca Rock Hill Ridgeway Pauline North Augusta Newberry Lexington Laurens Lancaster Jenkinsville Irmo Hopkins Greer Greenwood Greenville Greenville Greenville City Church of the Nativity Episcopal Church of the Ridge St Matthews Episcopal Church St Christophers Church Episcopal Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church of the Advent Holy Cross Episcopal Church Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church of Our Saviour St Stephens Episcopal Church Calvary Episcopal Church St Bartholomews Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church (2009) Church of the Epiphany Christ Episcopal Church (2009) St Barnabas Episcopal Church Epis Ch of St Simon & St Jude St Johns Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Church of the Resurrection St Philips Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church Congregation 119 53 106 591 140 47 1,488 645 195 590 73 75 551 127 348 78 104 71 256 217 169 459 33 489 638 Active Members 119 50 0 570 140 48 1,488 463 195 551 67 75 444 85 303 78 76 71 256 185 153 379 32 461 606 Communicants in Good Standing 2 2 0 0 7 0 137 8 20 15 6 8 123 6 72 1 2 1 7 5 80 25 1 23 96 Others 45 23 49 241 77 24 354 269 81 158 36 31 194 50 122 34 45 18 129 75 103 176 27 221 245 Average Sunday Attendance 52 25 52 135 52 50 136 155 111 107 50 52 171 75 101 51 69 48 110 106 148 119 0 101 157 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 Sunday 16 yrs Eucharists and Older 1 0 6 8 1 2 17 12 1 6 4 0 7 1 4 4 0 0 2 0 2 5 0 6 11 Under 16 Years 0 0 5 20 2 7 34 13 1 2 2 0 32 0 4 2 2 2 0 6 8 1 2 0 13 Confirmed or Received Baptisms Trenton St Johns Episcopal Church Diocese of Upper South Carolina Union 2 Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2010 Winnsboro 0 461.00 0 376 133 48 111 5,527.00 40 8,084 200 3,040 200 20,705 Church of the Good Shepherd 25,343 York Total Page 167 Constitution of The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina ARTICLE I JURISDICTION AND ACCESSION The Clergy and Laity of that portion of the Episcopal Church located in the State of South Carolina lying north and west of the counties of Chesterfield, Darlington, Lee, Sumter, Calhoun, Orangeburg and Barnwell, known as the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, for the purpose of establishing orderly government of the Episcopal Church within these boundaries, and to avail themselves of the advantages of the Word and Sacraments of God's Holy Church, do establish this CONSTITUTION. The Diocese of Upper South Carolina is within the jurisdiction of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, otherwise known as The Episcopal Church, which is a constituent member of the Anglican Communion, a Fellowship within the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, of those duly constituted Dioceses, Provinces, and regional Churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, upholding and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer. This Diocese accedes to and adopts the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and acknowledges its authority. ARTICLE II DIOCESAN CONVENTION The legislative authority of the Diocese shall be vested in a Convention selected from the membership of the Diocese and convened annually or by special call, as set forth in the Canons of the Diocese, to exercise its authority as granted by this Constitution and the Canons promulgated hereunder. ARTICLE III OFFICERS OF THE DIOCESE The Bishop of the Diocese shall be President of the Convention, and the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese. If the Bishop is absent or unable to serve, the Bishop Coadjutor, or the Suffragan Bishop, if there is one, shall administer the duties of President of Convention and Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese. Should none of them be present, the Presiding Officer of the Diocesan Executive Council shall be the President of the Convention and if the Presiding Officer of the Diocesan Executive Council is not present, a presiding officer shall be elected by the Convention. The Diocesan Executive Council, in performance of its duties as The Standing Committee, shall be the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese in the absence of an Episcopal officer as described above. Whenever in this Constitution or the Canons promulgated hereunder the term "Bishop" is used without the adjectives "Coadjutor", "Suffragan", or "Assistant", the term shall refer to the Diocesan Bishop. The other officers of the Diocese shall be a Chancellor, a Vice-Chancellor if needed, a Secretary, a Treasurer and a Registrar, who shall also perform the duties of Historiographer, and such other officers as the Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council deem necessary. Page 168 (Constitution, cont’d) ARTICLE IV DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL The affairs of the Diocese are to be managed by the Bishop of the Diocese, The Standing Committee, which shall consist as provided for in the Canons of the Diocese, and by such other officers and committees as may be provided for from time to time by the Canons. The Standing Committee shall also assume the responsibilities of the Diocesan Executive Council as defined in the Canons of the Diocese. The Canons and such By-Laws as shall be enacted shall provide for the time and manner in which the Diocesan Executive Council and other officers and committees are elected or appointed. ARTICLE V STATEMENT OF MISSION AND MINISTRY The Diocese recognizes that the Diocesan budget and other financial resources of the Diocese exemplifies the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese. In furtherance of the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese, the Diocesan Executive Council, in conjunction with the Bishop, shall be responsible for requesting the Episcopal Pledge from each congregation of the Diocese. After a complete review of the needs for the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese for the coming year, the Episcopal Pledge shall be established by the Diocesan Executive Council in the most cost effective method for achieving that part of the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese which cannot be accomplished by individual congregations. The process for development of the budget, along with the total balances of all assets and liabilities of the Diocese which are necessary for the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese, shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and the Canons promulgated hereunder. ARTICLE VI AMENDMENT This Constitution may be amended by concurrence of a majority at one Annual Convention, and by twothirds of each order present at the next Annual Convention. The amendment shall become effective immediately upon the successful vote. Page 169 The Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina TITLE I DIOCESAN CONVENTION CANON 1 MEMBERS OF CONVENTION SECTION 1. PRIESTS AND BISHOPS. (a) The following Priests and Bishops shall be members of the Convention and shall be accorded seat, voice and vote: (1) The Bishop, the Bishop Coadjutor, and the Bishop(s) Suffragan, and the Assistant Bishop(s), if there is one or more; and (2) Each Priest canonically resident in the Diocese and in good standing, and all priests or pastors of churches in full communion who are providing extended service as rectors, vicars or assistants in congregations in this Diocese with the consent of the Bishop; and (3) Retired or resigned Bishops of the Episcopal Church shall be accorded seat, voice, and in some instances vote, as provided by the National Canons. SECTION 2. DEACONS. (a) All Deacons who are canonically resident and in good standing shall be afforded seat, voice and vote at the convention. SECTION 3: CLERGY LIST. (a) The list of Clergy entitled to seat voice and vote, and a list of Clergy entitled to seat and voice, shall be prepared by the Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council, and shall be available at Convention. SECTION 4. LAY MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION. (a) The Lay members of the Convention who are accorded seat, voice and vote shall be from each organized congregation of the Diocese. There shall be two delegates from each Mission, and four delegates from each Parish. Each parish with more than 1,000 confirmed communicants in good standing shall have an Page 170 (Canons, cont’d) additional two delegates, and each parish with more than 2,000 confirmed communicants in good standing shall have an additional four delegates, but no parish shall have more than eight Lay delegates. Lay delegates from any congregation with greater than four delegates which has failed to pay its total requested Episcopal Pledge for the preceding fiscal year shall not be entitled to greater than four votes at Convention. (b) Delegates shall be confirmed communicants in good standing and members of the congregation from which elected. (c) Delegates to Annual or Special Conventions shall be chosen in such manner as the Mission or Parish By-Laws or the Canons of the Diocese may prescribe. (d) Lay members of the Diocesan Executive Council are accorded seat, voice and vote at Convention. (e) Lay Deputies to General Convention. (f) Two (2) Youth Deputies from each Convocation, who are confirmed communicants in good standing and members of the Convocation from which they are elected. The election for a one (1) year term would be held at the first Convocation meeting in a calendar year. (g) Such other Lay persons as may be nominated by the Bishop and approved by the Diocesan Executive Council may be accorded seat and voice but not vote at Convention. (h) Delegates, their alternates, and other Lay members entitled to seat, voice, and vote, shall present signed credentials to participate in the Convention, according to the Canons. No Delegate shall represent more than one Parish or Mission in the Convention. The list of Lay members entitled to seat voice and vote, shall be prepared by the Secretary of Convention, and shall be available at Convention, and thereafter the names of the Lay members may be called therefrom, and the same shall be taken as presumptive evidence of their privilege in the Convention; provided that if a question is made, the right of any Delegate shall be determined according to the provisions of the Canons by the Convention itself. CANON 2 CONVENING CONVENTION SECTION 1. ANNUAL CONVENTION. (a) A Diocesan Convention shall be held annually, at such time and place as shall have been determined upon by the preceding Convention, or upon failure of the Convention to so determine, at such time and place as the Ecclesiastical Authority shall appoint. Page 171 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. SPECIAL CONVENTION. (a) The Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese shall have power to call a special Convention, and such meeting shall be held when and where the Ecclesiastical Authority calling it shall determine, and at such meeting no other business shall be transacted than that specified in the notice calling the meeting. Lay Delegates from the Parishes and organized Missions in union with the Convention shall be selected by said Parishes and organized Missions. SECTION 3. CHANGE IN TIME AND PLACE OF CONVENTION. (a) For sufficient cause such as disease, epidemic or other major catastrophe, the Ecclesiastical Authority upon consultation with the Diocesan Executive Council may change time or place for the meeting of any Convention, and shall designate another time or place for the meeting. CANON 3 ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF CONVENTION SECTION 1. CALLING AND ORGANIZATION OF CONVENTION. (a) Notice of the meeting of any Convention shall be given by the Secretary in a letter transmitted by mail, to all Clergy, and to every Parish and Mission in the Diocese in union with the Convention. These letters shall contain a notice of the time and place of the Convention and, if it is a special Convention called as provided in the Canons for a particular purpose, the letters shall specify that purpose. The letters to Rectors, Vicars, or Priests-in-Charge responsible for the administration of a parish or mission shall also contain the form of parochial reports and the form of certificate for Delegates, and such extracts from the Constitution, Canons and Standing Resolutions as relate to the election of Delegates. The form of certificate for Delegates shall be filed with the Secretary of the Convention not later than six months prior to the Annual Convention date, or thirty days prior to a Special Convention date. (b) The Convention shall be preceded by such services as the Ecclesiastical Authority may direct, and if the Ecclesiastical Authority desires a sermon preached by someone else the Ecclesiastical Authority shall appoint the preacher. (c) Each Parish or Mission shall send its annual Parochial Report to the Secretary of the Diocese not later than the date required by the Diocesan Executive Council, and failure to do so shall preclude such Parish or Congregation, both as to Clergy and to Laity, from representation in said Page 172 (Canons, cont’d) Convention; provided that representation may be extended to such Parish or Congregation failing to comply upon a two-thirds vote of the Convention. The Clerical and Lay Delegates from any Parish or Congregation which has been precluded, under these Canons, from representation in the Convention shall not be denied seat, voice and vote in the election of a Bishop, Bishop Coadjutor or Suffragan Bishop. (d) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Convention of this Diocese to forward to the Secretary of the House of Deputies immediately upon publication the Journal of the Convention of the Diocese, together with Episcopal charges, statements and such other papers as may show the state of the Church in the Diocese. It shall also be the Secretary's duty to prepare, immediately after the adjournment of the Diocesan Convention next preceding the regular meeting of every General Convention, and forward forthwith to the Secretary of the House of Deputies upon the blank provided for that purpose, a condensed summary of the statistics contained in the Parochial Reports and the Ecclesiastical Authority's statement, with information as to all institutions in any way connected with the Church within the Diocese, and also as to the condition of all invested funds and the amount of all contributions received and expended by the Ecclesiastical Authority, or otherwise within the Diocese. (e) The Diocese shall operate on a calendar year basis. (f) All reports shall be in the form of a schedule, prepared by the Secretary, in accordance with the provisions of this Canon. And the failure of any person to make out a Parochial Report according to this form shall be deemed sufficient cause for the exclusion of such report from the pages of the Journal. CANON 4 NOMINATING, DELIBERATING, AND VOTING IN CONVENTION SECTION 1. DELIBERATING AND VOTING (a) On all questions, unless otherwise provided by the Constitution and Canons, the members shall deliberate and vote as one body; except that three Clergy entitled to vote or a majority of the Lay Delegates from one Parish or two Missions may call for a vote by orders in which case a concurrent majority of the two orders shall be necessary to a decision. (b) A vote of not less than a two-thirds majority of Lay and Clergy voting at convention shall be required to adopt the budget and Episcopal Pledge. Page 173 (Canons, cont’d) (c) In the election of a Bishop, Bishop Coadjutor, or Bishop Suffragan, the vote shall be by secret ballot, and by orders. The vote of each Lay Delegate, of each elected Lay officer of the Diocese entitled to vote and of each Clerical member of the Convention entitled to vote shall be counted as one vote. A concurrent majority of the two orders shall be necessary to elect. Nominations of any qualified Clergy may be made at any time during the balloting from the floor by process of writing in such name on a ballot. In such an election two-thirds of all Clergy entitled to vote and Lay representation from two-thirds of the congregations entitled to representation shall be present. CANON 5 DEPUTIES TO GENERAL CONVENTION AND PROVINCIAL SYNOD SECTION 1. ELECTION (a) Four Clergy and four confirmed Lay adult communicants in good standing shall be elected by ballot as Deputies of this Diocese and four of each order shall be elected as Alternates to the General Convention in a manner consistent with the Canons of The Episcopal Church. The four of each order receiving the majority of votes cast shall be considered duly elected Deputies; the four of each order receiving the next highest number of votes shall be considered Alternates in order of their votes and considered duly elected. Such Deputies and Alternates shall serve until their successors are elected. (b) If any of those elected decline election, or are unable to attend, that person shall inform the Ecclesiastical Authority, and the Ecclesiastical Authority shall submit to the General Convention one of the Alternates in the order of election. If none of the Alternates elected shall accept such appointment, the Ecclesiastical Authority may appoint a Deputy of like qualifications as the Deputy who resigned. (c) Clerical and Lay Deputies to the Provincial Synod shall be in such numbers as the Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council shall determine. In the absence of a Bishop the Diocesan Executive Council shall appoint such Clerical and Lay Deputies. Page 174 (Canons, cont’d) TITLE II OFFICERS OF THE DIOCESE CANON 1 ASSISTANT BISHOP SECTION 1. When in the opinion of the Bishop of the Diocese, additional episcopal services are required, the Bishop may, with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, in lieu of requesting the election of a Coadjutor or Suffragan Bishop, ask the Diocesan Convention to approve the creation of the position of Assistant Bishop, and to authorize the Bishop to appoint a Bishop to such position, with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, and under such conditions as the Bishop may determine. SECTION 2. An Assistant Bishop so appointed shall serve at the discretion of, and be under the control and direction of, the Bishop having jurisdiction, and shall not serve beyond the termination of the jurisdiction of the appointing Bishop or after attaining the age of seventy-two years. CANON 2 CHANCELLOR SECTION 1. The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor shall be nominated by the Bishop from among the confirmed communicants in good standing. They shall be members of the South Carolina Bar, and licensed to practice law in the State of South Carolina, and shall be elected by the Convention. Each shall serve for three years, or until a successor is elected. Their duties shall be to act as the legal advisers to the Bishop. CANON 3 REGISTRAR SECTION 1. The Registrar shall be appointed by the Bishop to serve for three years, or until a successor is appointed. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to collect and take charge of all documents and papers pertaining to the history of the Church in this Diocese or in any one of the Congregations. It shall also be the duty of the Registrar to collect and keep for reference a set of Page 175 (Canons, cont’d) Journals of the Diocese, and of the General Convention, and to report annually to the Diocesan Convention. CANON 4 SECRETARY SECTION 1. The Secretary shall be elected at each Annual Convention and shall continue in office until a successor is elected and shall have such duties as are prescribed from time to time by the Constitution, Canons, Resolutions and Rules of Order of the Convention, and the Constitution, Canons, Resolutions and Rules of Order of the General Convention. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a correct Journal of the proceedings of the Convention, to attest its public acts, preserve its records, and to deliver to a successor all books and papers belonging to it, or appertaining to its business. SECTION 3. The Secretary shall also give notice, at least six weeks beforehand, to all Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese and each Vestry or Mission Committee, of the time and place of any stated or special meeting of the Convention. SECTION 4. The Secretary shall transmit to the Secretary of the General Convention a certified list of the Clerical and Lay Deputies elected by this Diocese to the General Convention, together with all other documents required of the Canons and Regulations of that body and shall perform all other duties required of that body and shall perform all other duties required of the Secretary by said Canons and Regulations. SECTION 5. Whenever there is a vacancy in the Office of the Secretary, its duties shall devolve upon the Secretary of the Diocesan Executive Council. Page 176 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 5 TREASURER SECTION 1. The Treasurer shall be elected at each Annual Convention upon nomination by the Bishop with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council. The duties of the Treasurer shall be as prescribed by the Canons, and the Treasurer shall continue in office until a successor is elected and qualified. SECTION 2. It shall be the Treasurer's duty to collect and disburse all monies collected under the authority of the Convention, and of which the collection and distribution is not otherwise regulated. The Treasurer shall keep regular accounts of all transactions to be annually laid before the Convention, and shall faithfully deliver into the hands of a successor all books, papers and funds relative or belonging to the Convention, which may be the Treasurer's charge. SECTION 3. The Treasurer of the Diocese shall forward to the Treasurer of General Convention those funds required of this Diocese toward defraying the expenses of that body. SECTION 4. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Treasurer, the Bishop with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council shall appoint a Treasurer to serve until the Convention shall elect a successor. CANON 6 DEATH, DISABILITY, OR RESIGNATION SECTION 1. In the event of the death, disability or resignation of any officer of the Diocese, the Bishop with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council shall have the right to appoint a successor as interim, except as otherwise provided herein. Page 177 (Canons, cont’d) TITLE III THE STANDING COMMITTEE (DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL) CANON 1 MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICERS SECTION 1. The Diocesan Executive Council shall consist of eighteen members elected by the Diocesan Convention to include nine Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese and nine Lay confirmed communicants in good standing in the Diocese. The Bishop, Chancellor, and the Treasurer shall serve ex-officio with seat and voice, but no vote. Ex-officio members shall have no seat, voice, or vote when the Diocesan Executive Council is acting as a Standing Committee in the performance of its responsibilities as required by the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. SECTION 2. The Diocesan Executive Council members shall serve staggered three year terms. A member who has served a full three year term shall be ineligible for re-election for two years following the expiration of that member's term of office. Unexpired terms created by vacancies occurring between Diocesan Conventions may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Diocesan Executive Council members, subject to maintaining an equal numerical balance between Clergy and Lay members. SECTION 3. The Diocesan Executive Council shall elect its own officers and define their duties. Its Presiding Officer shall be designated President and shall serve a term of one year and shall be eligible for reelection for another one year term. The Presidency shall rotate between a Clergy and a Lay member. Page 178 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 2 RESPONSIBILITIES The Diocesan Executive Council shall: SECTION 1. Act as the Standing Committee of the Diocese in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, the Constitution of this Diocese, and these Canons. SECTION 2. Act as a Council of Advice to the Bishop. SECTION 3. Function as an interim legislative authority of Convention, performing such specific functions as are delegated to it by the Convention, the Constitution, and these Canons. Such duties shall include administering the budget and financial resources of the Diocese as described within the Statement of Mission and Ministry below. SECTION 4. Act as a Long Range Planning Committee for the Diocese and be responsible for the creation of a rolling five year strategic plan. The plan shall be updated annually with input from the Convocations, Diocesan officers, commissions, and individual parishioners, and said plan shall be presented to and approved annually by the Diocesan Convention. SECTION 5. Establish a Department of Finance in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, the Diocesan Constitution, and these Canons. SECTION 6. Establish a Commission on Ministry in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, the Diocesan Constitution, and these Canons. The Commission members shall serve a three year term, and the term of one-third of the membership shall end each year. The Commission shall consist of Clergy and Lay persons and shall perform its duties in such manner as may be prescribed by the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church, and as further prescribed by the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese, and by the By-Laws of the Diocesan Executive Council. Page 179 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 7. Establish an Ecclesiastical Trial Court in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church, the Diocesan Constitution, and these Canons. SECTION 8. Establish such Leadership and Program Groups, in consultation with the Bishop, as shall be desirable from time to time. The Diocesan Executive Council shall also promulgate guidelines which shall regulate the operation of all Leadership and Program Groups. Each Leadership and Program Group shall have a three year cycle of membership, and the term of one-third of the membership shall end each year. The membership shall be appointed by the Bishop, in consultation with the Diocesan Executive Council. The Bishop may, in his discretion, appoint Diocesan Officers and charge such officers with responsibility for specific tasks which can be handled expeditiously by one person rather than a Leadership and Program group. SECTION 9. Establish a Nominations Committee, approved by the Diocesan Convention, whose task it will be to obtain nominations for the various Diocesan offices, including vacancies on the Diocesan Executive Council. Such nominations shall be obtained from Parishes, Missions, Convocations, other Diocesan agencies, and individuals as the Nominations Committee deems appropriate. SECTION 10. Carry out such other duties as may be assigned by the Diocesan Convention or required by the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church and the laws of the State of South Carolina. SECTION 11. Create its own By-Laws to carry out the provisions herein. CANON 3 RECORDS SECTION 1. The Diocesan Executive Council shall keep records of its proceedings and shall provide an annual report of its activities to the Diocesan Convention, except (a) such activities as pertain to the exercise of its responsibility as a Council of Advice to the Bishop, or (b) other confidential matters pertaining to the business and operation of the Ecclesiastical Trial Court. Page 180 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 4 MEETINGS SECTION 1. The Diocesan Executive Council shall hold regular meetings, not less than four times each year, at such time and place as it may select, and at such other times as it may be called into session by the President, by the Bishop, or by any three of its members. CANON 5 QUORUM SECTION 1. A majority of the Diocesan Executive Council members, exclusive of exofficio members, shall constitute a quorum. CANON 6 ORGANIZATION SECTION 1. The Diocesan Executive Council shall be organized into the following disciplines or departments: (i) Mission and Ministry; (ii) Christian Formation; (iii) Finance and Administration; and (iv) the work of the Standing Committee and Ecclesiastical Trial Court as required by the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church, and further in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese. The President, with the consent of the Council, shall make appointments of the members to said disciplines or departments as may be necessary and appropriate to fulfill the various duties and responsibilities of the Standing Committee (Diocesan Executive Council); provided each discipline or department shall have at least two members. Page 181 (Canons, cont’d) TITLE IV MISSION AND MINISTRY CANON 1 STATEMENT OF MISSION AND MINISTRY SECTION 1. PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPMENT. (a) To assure orderly development of the Leadership and Program of the Diocese in furtherance of its Mission and Ministry, the Diocesan Executive Council shall request submission of proposed budgets based on the mission statement by the Bishop for all personnel, program, and financial needs of the Diocese. The Diocesan Executive Council shall then prepare a preliminary budget which shall be submitted with the proposed Episcopal Pledges to congregations and to Convocations for comments and recommendations. (b) After sufficient time has been made for comment and recommendations, the final budget shall be completed by the Diocesan Executive Council and presented to the Diocesan Convention for approval along with a statement of mission by the Bishop. This budget shall include the total funds flow of the Diocese, a balance sheet statement of all assets and liabilities under the control of the Diocese, and a summary of actual expenditures and receipts for the current budget year. (c) In conjunction with the submission of the budget to the Diocesan Convention, the Diocesan Executive Council shall submit a rolling five year strategic plan of all of the needs of all Leadership and Program of the Diocese to assist in development of Mission and Ministry for the future. SECTION 2. DIVISION AND JUSTIFICATION. (a) Episcopate and Support Staff: The Episcopate and Support Staff shall include the Bishop, his staff, and the operation of the Diocesan House. The Bishop shall provide the Diocesan Executive Council with a detailed listing of personnel and associated expenses, and a staffing and organizational plan to accomplish the mission of the office of the Bishop, justifying in detail additional or changed staff positions. (b) Institutions Not Directly Controlled by the Diocese: Each Institution not directly controlled by the Diocese shall provide the Diocesan Executive Council with a statement of needs for the funds it has requested from the Diocese, together with a Report of the Institution which describes the accomplishments of the Institution which have been made as a result of the funds provided by the Page 182 (Canons, cont’d) Diocese within the previous budget year. Such Report of the Institution shall contain a statement of how the Mission and Ministry of the Institution is consistent with the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese. (c) Leadership and Program: Leadership and Program shall include all programs and missions supported directly by the Diocese whose affairs are under the direct control of the Diocese. Each annual budget request by Leadership and Program shall be considered a new request not related to any previous budget. Each such request shall provide a statement which describes: (1) How, why, and when the program was established, and how it furthers the Mission and Ministry of the Diocese. (2) The accomplishments of the program which have been made as a result of the funds provided by the Diocese within the previous budget year. (3) An explanation of the goals of the program for the budget year which justifies to the Diocesan Convention the continuation of the program at the Diocesan level, and why such goals cannot be accomplished at the Convocation level, the congregational level, or by other reasonable means. (4) If the budget request involves paid staff or paid services, such request shall include a statement that the program is unable to make such services available on a voluntary basis. (5) Such other information as may be required from time to time by the Diocesan Executive Council. CANON 2 BUSINESS METHODS IN CHURCH AFFAIRS SECTION 1. The Diocese of Upper South Carolina and its Parishes, Missions and Institutions shall observe the following standard business methods: (a) Funds held in trust, endowment and other permanent funds, and securities represented by physical evidence of ownership or indebtedness, shall be deposited with such body as may be approved in writing by the Diocesan Executive Council, under a deed of trust, agency or other depository agreement providing for at least two signatures on any order of withdrawal of such funds or securities. This paragraph shall not be deemed to prohibit investments in securities issued in book entry form or other manner that dispenses with the delivery of a certificate evidencing the ownership of the securities or the indebtedness of the issuer. Page 183 (Canons, cont’d) (b) Records shall be made and kept of all trust and permanent funds showing at least the following: (1) Source and date. (2) Terms governing the use of principal and income. (3) To whom and how often reports of condition are to be made. (4) How the funds are invested. (c) Treasurers and custodians, other than banking institutions, shall be adequately bonded; with the exception of treasurers of funds that do not exceed 500 dollars at any one time during the fiscal year. (d) Books of account shall be so kept as to provide the basis for satisfactory accounting. (e) All accounts of the Diocese shall be audited annually by an independent Certified Public Accountant. All accounts of Parishes, Missions or other institutions shall be audited annually by an independent Certified Public Accountant, or independent Licensed Public Accountant, or such audit committee as shall be authorized by the Diocesan Executive Council. All reports of such audits, including any memorandum issued by the auditors or audit committee regarding internal controls or other accounting matters, together with a summary of action taken or proposed to be taken to correct deficiencies or implement recommendations contained in any such memorandum, shall be filed with the Ecclesiastical Authority not later than thirty days following the date of such report, and in no event, not later that September 1 of each year, covering the financial reports of the previous calendar year, and failure to do so shall preclude such Parish or Congregation, both as to Clergy and to Laity, from representation in said Diocesan Convention; provided that representation may be extended to such Parish or Congregation failing to comply upon a two-thirds vote of the Convention. (f) All buildings and their contents shall be kept adequately insured by the Vestry, Mission Committee or other governing body having ownership or supervision of the property. (g) The Diocesan Executive Council may require copies of any or all accounts described in this Section to be filed with it and shall report annually to the Convention of the Diocese upon its administration of this canon. (h) The fiscal year shall begin January 1. SECTION 2. No Vestry, Trustee, or other Body, authorized by Civil or Canon law to hold, manage, or administer real property for any Parish, Mission, Congregation, or Institution, shall encumber or alienate the same or any part thereof without the written consent of the Bishop and Page 184 (Canons, cont’d) Diocesan Executive Council, except under such regulations as may be prescribed by Canons of the Diocese; provided however, that no such consent shall be required with respect to: (a) Any Institution not wholly controlled by this Diocese. (b) The refinancing of the current balance of an existing loan. (c) A short term loan (a loan to be repaid, within twelve months of its date) from a lending institution made for the purpose of funding current operating expenses and which loan is not secured by a mortgage on real estate. (d) The alienation of real estate conveyed as a gift if the alienation is made within twelve months of the receipt of the gift. (e) A loan approved and made by the Diocesan Executive Council which loan is not secured by mortgage on real estate. SECTION 3. All real and personal property held by or for the benefit of any Parish, Mission or Congregation is held in trust for this Church and the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. The existence of this trust, however, shall in no way limit the power and authority of the Parish, Mission or Congregation otherwise existing over such property so long as the particular Parish, Mission or Congregation remains a part of, and subject to, this Church and its Constitution and Canons. CANON 3 PENSION FUND SECTION 1. In conformity with the legislation adopted by the General Convention setting forth the principles upon which a pension system for the Clergy of the Church and their dependents should be constructed pursuant to which the corporation, the Church Pension Fund, has been created to carry these principles into effect, the Diocese of Upper South Carolina adopts the system of the Church Pension Fund. SECTION 2. The Treasurer of the Diocese shall remit all premiums payable on behalf of the Bishop, and also on the Bishop Coadjutor, Bishop Suffragan, and Assistant Bishop, if there be such, and Diocesan Clergy staff, to the Treasurer of the Church Pension Fund. SECTION 3. The Treasurer of each Parish shall remit directly to the Treasurer of the Church Pension Fund the amount due upon the annual premiums of the Rector, Vicar, or any other stipendiary Clergy of the Parish. The Treasurer of each Mission shall remit direct to the Treasurer of Page 185 (Canons, cont’d) the Church Pension Fund the amount due on the annual premiums on that part of the stipend of the Clergy paid by the Mission. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of all Clergy, aforesaid receiving a stipend or stipends, and the duty of every Parish, Mission, or organization as aforesaid paying a stipend or stipends to furnish a statement of such stipend or stipends, and of every change in the amount thereof as soon as such change shall occur, to the Treasurer of the Church Pension Fund. TITLE V ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE CANON 1 JURISDICTION SECTION 1. All proceedings in this Diocese for canonical discipline of members of the clergy shall be governed by Title IV of the Canons of the General Convention as supplemented by this Title. To the extent that any of the provisions of this Title are in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of Title IV, the provisions of Title IV shall govern. CANON 2 ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINARY BOARD SECTION 1. FORMING AN ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINARY BOARD There shall be an Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board for THE DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA to try such charges as may be preferred against any member of the Clergy canonically resident in this Diocese. The Board shall consist of not less than seven (7) members, four (4) of whom are members of Clergy, canonically and geographically resident of the Diocese, and three (3) of whom are confirmed adult Lay communicants in good standing who are members entitled to vote in congregations of this Diocese and who are geographically resident in the Diocese. Clergy and Lay members shall not be members of the Diocesan Executive Council and shall be elected at the Annual Convention of this Diocese according to Section 2 below. The Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board may make, by majority vote, such rules as may be necessary for the orderly conduct of its business, consistent with Canon Law. Page 186 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. ELECTION OF MEMBERS (a) Currently, there are three (3) Lay and four (4) Clergy members serving on the Ecclesiastical Trial Court. Those members will transition to the Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board when the new Canon IV takes effect on July 1, 2011. In case a member is rotating off the Trial Court, his or her replacement will take his or her place as anticipated herein and transition as herein anticipated. (b) Thereafter, as members of the Judicial entity rotate off the entity, new members shall be elected by the Annual Convention. Each clergy member, shall be elected for a four (4) year term and each Lay member shall be elected for a three (3) year term; except, if a member is elected to fill a vacancy, the term of such member shall be the unexpired term of the member being replaced. The term of the member shall commence on the first (1st) day of the year following election. The terms of office of the Board shall be staggered and arranged into classes. (c) Vacancies The Diocesan Executive Council may fill vacancies on the Board, other than for cause in the conduct of a presentment, occurring in the interval between Conventions; however, any member of the Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board appointed by the Diocesan Executive Council shall serve only until the next Annual Convention at which time the Convention shall elect a member to serve the unexpired term. SECTION 3. PRESIDENT Within two months following the Annual Convention the members shall elect from among themselves by majority vote one person to serve as President for a one year term. The President shall preside at all meetings of Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board, and shall be responsible for the conduct of the administration and business of the Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board. SECTION 4. PRESERVING IMPARTIALITY In any proceeding under this Title, if any member of a Conference Panel or Hearing Panel (as defined in Canon IV of the General Canons) of the Board shall become aware of a personal conflict of interest or undue bias, that member shall immediately notify the President of the Board and request a replacement member of the Panel. Respondent’s Counsel and the Church Attorney shall have the right to challenge any member of a Panel for conflict of interest or undue bias by motion to the Panel for disqualification of the challenged member. The members of the Panel not the subjects of the challenge shall promptly consider the motion and determine whether the challenged Panel member shall be disqualified from participating in that proceeding. Page 187 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 5. INTAKE OFFICER The Intake Officer shall be appointed from time to time by the Bishop after consultation with the Board. The Bishop may appoint one or more Intake Officers according to the needs of the Diocese. The Bishop shall publish the name(s) and contact information of the Intake Officer(s) throughout the Diocese. SECTION 6. INVESTIGATOR The Bishop shall appoint an Investigator in consultation with the President of the Board. The Investigator may, but need not, be a Member of the Church. SECTION 7. PASTORAL RESPONSE COORDINATOR The Bishop may appoint a Pastoral Response Coordinator, to serve at the will of the Bishop in coordinating the delivery of appropriate pastoral responses provided for in Title IV.8 of the General Canons and this Title. The Pastoral Response Coordinator may be the Intake Officer, but shall not be a person serving in any other appointed or elected capacity under this Title. SECTION 8. ADVISORS In each proceeding under this Title, the Bishop shall appoint an Advisor for the Complainant and an Advisor for the Respondent. Persons serving as Advisors shall hold no other appointed or elected position provided for under this Title, and shall not include chancellors or vice chancellors of this Diocese or any person likely to be called as a witness in the proceeding. SECTION 9. CLERK The Board shall appoint a Board Clerk to assist the Board with records management and administrative support. The Clerk may be a member of the Board. SECTION 10. NOTICE OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE HEARING PANEL A written notice of the time and place of the first meeting of the Hearing Panel shall be served at least thirty (30) days before that meeting on the accused and on the Church Attorney. This period may be shortened with the prior written consent of the accused and the Church Attorney. Page 188 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 3 CHURCH ATTORNEY SECTION 1. CHURCH ATTORNEY A church attorney will be appointed by the Bishop with the advice and consent of the Diocesan Executive Council. The Church Attorney is not to be a member of the Diocesan Executive Council, but is to be licensed to practice law in a jurisdiction of the United States of America. In addition, he or she must be either a member of the Clergy canonically resident in this Diocese or a confirmed adult lay communicant in good standing who is entitled to vote in a congregation of this Diocese. The Church Attorney shall be appointed to terms of one year and shall serve at the pleasure of the Bishop. SECTION 2. APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT CHURCH ATTORNEYS The Bishop, with the advice and consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, may authorize the appointment of one or more Assistant Church Attorneys, who shall then be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Church Attorney, provided, however, that such Assistant Church Attorneys must have the same qualifications as those applied to the Church Attorney. CANON 4 EXPENSES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINARY BOARD The expenses of the Ecclesiastical Disciplinary Board, including but not limited to those of the Church Attorney, shall be presented to the Diocesan Executive Council for payment. TITLE VI CONVOCATIONS SECTION 1. By action of the Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council, the Diocese shall be divided into geographical districts, hereafter known as Convocations. Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council shall establish the number of such Convocations, their boundaries and names. Page 189 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. Each Convocation shall have as its presiding officer a Dean. For each Convocation, the Bishop shall nominate two Clergy as candidates for Dean, and the voting members of each Convocation shall elect, from the two nominees, its Dean. Each Convocation shall have a Convocation Warden selected from the Laity of the Convocation by the voting members of Convocation. Upon the Bishop’s approval the Dean and Convocation Warden shall be appointed and installed in their respective offices at the Annual Diocesan Convention. The terms of the office of the Dean and Convocation Warden shall begin with their installation and continue at the direction of the Bishop, not to exceed three years. Vacancy in the office of the Dean shall be filled by an Acting Dean, appointed by the Bishop, to serve until the next Annual Diocesan Convention, and vacancy in the office of the Convocation Warden shall be filled by an Acting Convocation Warden appointed by the Dean who shall serve until the next regularly scheduled Convocation Meeting, at which time a Convocation Warden shall be elected to serve the unexpired term. SECTION 3. The voting members of each Convocation shall be clergy resident within that Convocation who are qualified to vote at Diocesan Convention, and delegates or alternates to Diocesan Convention resident within the Convocation. SECTION 4. Each Convocation shall study the local needs within its boundaries, and shall develop Programs to address those needs. SECTION 5. Each Convocation shall receive from the Diocesan Executive Council copies of the preliminary Statement of Mission and proposed Episcopal Pledge. Each Convocation shall review the preliminary Statement of Mission and Episcopal Pledge, and shall make comments and recommendations to the Diocesan Executive Council. SECTION 6. Each Convocation shall nominate no more than two Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese and two Lay confirmed communicants in good standing in the Diocese as candidates for election to the Diocesan Executive Council. Such Convocation nominees shall be included in the roster of all nominees for Diocesan Executive Council, and shall be voted upon on the same basis as all other nominees. Page 190 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 7. The Deans, Convocation Lay Wardens, the staff liaison, and Diocesan Executive Council Chairpersons for the Commission on Convocations shall meet no less than quarterly. The Deans and Lay Wardens shall meet with the Bishop at the Bishop’s discretion. The Dean and Lay Wardens shall be ex-officio members with seat and voice on the Diocesan Executive Council. TITLE VII LEADERSHIP AND PROGRAM CANON 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1. A Commission is a group that performs functions required by the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, or a group established by the Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council or Diocesan Convention to perform continuing functions within the Diocesan structure. SECTION 2. A Task Force is a group established to accomplish a specific task at the request of the Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council, and which will complete its work during a specific period of time. SECTION 3. A Committee is a subordinate group of a Commission, Task Force or the Diocesan Convention. CANON 2 ELECTION OF COMMISSION AND TASK FORCE MEMBERSHIP SECTION 1. Each Commission within the Diocese shall be subject to a three year cycle for the selection of its members, and one-third of such membership shall be selected each year; however, the Bishop, with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, may, for any Commission, suspend this requirement so that a three year cycle is not required. Page 191 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. Members of Commissions and Task Forces shall be appointed by the Bishop with the concurrence of the Diocesan Executive Council. CANON 3 DIVERSITY OF MEMBERSHIP SECTION 1. Appointments and elections to Commissions and Task Forces shall as far as possible reflect the diversity of the membership of the Diocese in regard to race, gender, age, and congregational size and location. TITLE VIII PARISHES AND MISSIONS CANON 1 ANNUAL PARISH MEETINGS SECTION 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the qualified members of every Parish or Mission in this Diocese on the Monday after the First Sunday in Advent, or some other day legally appointed, for the purpose of electing Wardens and Vestry members, and of transacting such other business as may come before said meetings, one week's notice of the meeting shall be given by the Minister or Vestry. SECTION 2. At these meetings the Rector shall preside; but if there is no Rector, or if the Rector is absent, the Senior Warden shall preside; if there is not a Senior Warden, then a presiding office shall be chosen and a Secretary shall be appointed, and ratified by the members present. SECTION 3. The election of the Wardens and Vestry members shall be by written ballot, and the qualifications of those who may vote shall be prescribed by the By-Laws of the Parish or Mission. SECTION 4. The Vestry shall make to this meeting an annual report of their official acts during the year. Page 192 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 2 VESTRIES SECTION 1. The By-Laws of every Parish shall contain specific provisions establishing a Vestry, the number of members constituting the Vestry, and the manner by which the members of the Vestry shall be elected at the Annual Parish Meeting. SECTION 2. The Church Wardens and other members of the Vestry shall be elected from among the adult confirmed communicants in good standing of the Parish, as prescribed by its ByLaws. SECTION 3. In every Parish there shall be a system of rotation of the Vestry, the details of which shall be regulated by the Articles of Association or By-Laws, or in the absence of the same, by a Congregational Meeting; provided, that no persons shall serve as a Warden or Vestry member for more than three years in either capacity or a combination of the two offices continuously for more than five years, after which time that person shall not be eligible for election for one year; provided further, that the preceding provision shall not apply to any Parish of less than forty adult confirmed communicants in good standing, nor to any individual elected by the Vestry to fill an unexpired term of less than one year. SECTION 4. The Senior Warden and Junior Warden shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of the By-Laws of the congregation. The term of each shall not exceed three years, and vacancies in either office or in the office of Vestry member may be filled by the Vestry for the unexpired term. SECTION 5. At the first meeting of the Vestry following the Annual Parish Meeting, the Vestry shall elect, though not necessarily from their own number, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The terms of the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be for a one year period. Both of these offices may be filled by the same individual. SECTION 6. The election shall always be by written ballot, and its details shall be regulated by the Article of Association, or By-Laws of the Parish. Within one month after their election, Church Wardens and Vestry members may be duly installed into their respective offices with an appropriate service authorized by the Bishop. Page 193 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 7. The Church Wardens and Vestry members thus elected, together with the Rector, if there be one, shall constitute the Vestry, and shall be the official representatives of the Parish. The meetings of the Vestry shall be held regularly at stated intervals or upon call of the Rector after due notice has been given to all members; provided that on a call signed by one Warden and two Vestry members and after due notice to the Rector in charge of the Parish, the Vestry may meet and transact such business as may seem proper. The By-Laws of each Congregation shall establish procedures to ensure that the Vestry Meetings are open to members of the Congregation. SECTION 8. The Vestry shall have charge of the temporalities of the Church, and it shall be their duty to provide for all repairs, salaries and current expenses, and take all necessary steps to raise the funds required, and to keep a proper account of the same. They shall also execute all duties which are now, or may hereafter be, imposed upon them by any General Convention or Convention of the Diocese. SECTION 9. It shall be the special duty of the Wardens to provide whatever may be necessary for the due celebration of divine worship (as books, vestments, etc.); also for the decency and comfort of the church buildings and furniture, books for church records, and the elements of The Holy Eucharist, and to put down all disorder during public worship. They shall be ready to collect "the alms and other devotions of the people," and in case the Congregation is without Clergy, shall disburse them; and also provide for public worship by occasional Clerical services, or by lay reading, as circumstances will permit. They shall also, during such vacancy, take charge of the Church plate, records, etc. and shall present to the Bishop at each Annual Convention, a report of the Parish. It shall also be their further duty to aid the Rector or Clergy in all agencies and efforts for the advancement of the Church, such as Sunday Schools and other related matters, and they may report to the Bishop any irregularities in the mode of conducting public worship, and all offenses by their Clergy, or by any other officiating in behalf of their Clergy, against Rubrics or Canons, faith or morals. SECTION 10. The pastoral connections shall not be dissolved except as provided for by the Canons of the General Convention. SECTION 11. When a Parish is vacant, it shall be the duty of the Vestry to notify the Bishop of the fact, and also to elect and invite a Rector, but not without due regard to the ascertained wishes of the congregation, and the opinion and advice of the Bishop. Page 194 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 12. When a Parish is vacant, upon the request of the Wardens and Vestry, the Bishop, with the advice of the Chancellor, may extend the term of the Wardens and Vestry until such time as a Rector is elected and settled. Election of Vestry shall then take place at the next regular Annual Meeting of the Parish. CANON 3 CLERGY AND THEIR DUTIES SECTION 1. The Rector of a Parish shall have the exclusive charge of all things affecting the spiritual interests of the Parish, subject to the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention of this Church. It shall be the duty of the Rector to take order concerning the worship of the Church, together with all that appertains thereunto. The Rector shall be at all times entitled to access to the Church, to open the same for public worship, for catechetical or other religious instructions, marriages, baptisms, burials, and all other offices authorized by the Church. The Rector shall have direction and control of all parish owned and/or operated day schools, educational endeavors and outreach ministries connected with the parish, and shall preside at all Vestry meetings. In case of the Rector's absence, the Senior Warden shall preside or the Junior Warden in the absence of both Rector and Senior Warden. Provided, however, that the Rector may be released from his or her duty of oversight and control over any separately incorporated parish school or other institution by resolution adopted by the Diocesan Executive Council and endorsed by the Bishop; said resolution shall be issued upon a finding that articles of incorporation and other documents under which the institution will operate sufficiently protect the Episcopal nature of the institution, and bind the school to the mission and ministry of the diocese, such that the responsibilities of the Rector may be delegated to the board of directors or other governing bodies of the institution. Such resolutions and endorsements may be withdrawn at any time that the Bishop or Diocesan Executive Council determines withdrawal to be necessary to protect the interest of the Diocese in the mission and ministry of the institution. The articles of incorporation and other documents of the institution shall clearly reflect that the institution is subject to the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese and shall not permit any change of those terms without approval by the Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council. Page 195 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 4 INTERIM MINISTRY SECTION 1. The Interim Ministry is the collective ministry of the Diocese with the Parish through the Bishop, staff, interim Clergy, interim consultant, and Lay leaders, when the parish is between rectors. SECTION 2. The Interim Priest, working with the Vestry, shall provide the leadership necessary to maintain stability during the interim period and assist the congregation as it begins the self-study related to the search process. The Interim Priest shall have the same authorities as a Rector unless the Bishop and Vestry agree otherwise. The interim Priest shall not be a candidate for the permanent position. SECTION 3. Each Vestry shall negotiate and execute a written Letter of Agreement with the Interim Priest. The Letter of Agreement shall be approved by the Bishop, and shall include the duties and tenure of the Interim Priest, and the Letter of Agreement shall be consistent with these Canons. CANON 5 PARISH REGISTER AND REPORTS SECTION 1. Each Clergy shall keep a register of all baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials solemnized by said Clergy or Ministries in that Clergy's Parish performed by another Clergy, and if the Clergy has a cure of souls, a list of baptized and confirmed persons in the cure. SECTION 2. The Register so kept shall specify the name and date of birth of the person baptized, the name of the parents and sponsors--in the case of an adult, the name, and those of the witnesses--the name of persons confirmed, married and buried with the date of every rite performed and the name of the officiating Clergy. SECTION 3. In every Parish these entries shall be made by the Clergy in a book provided by the Church Wardens for that purpose. If there is no Clergy, the Wardens themselves shall see that such registry is made. The registry shall be known as the Parish Register, and it shall be preserved as a part of the records of the Church. It shall also be the duty of every Clergy, in case of removal from a Parish, to deposit this Register with the Church Wardens. Page 196 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of every Clergy of this Diocese in charge of a Parish or Mission, or if there be no Clergy-in-Charge, of the Church Wardens, or other proper officer, to prepare upon the blank form adopted by the General Convention, a report for the year ending December 31st preceding, and to deliver the same to the Secretary of the Convention not later than February 1st following the calendar year which the report covers. This report shall include the following information: (1) the number of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials during the year; the total number of baptized persons and confirmed communicants at the time of the report; (2) a summary of the receipts and expenditures from whatever source derived, and for whatever purpose used; and (3) a statement of the property held by the Parish, whether real or personal, with an appraisal of its current replacement value, together with a statement of the indebtedness of the Parish or Congregation if any, and of the amount of insurance carried. Every Clergy not in charge of any Parish or Congregation, shall also report occasional services, and if there have been none, the cause or reasons which have prevented the same. These reports or such part of them as the Bishop may deem proper, shall be entered in the Journal. SECTION 5. For the purpose of this Canon the word "Communicants" shall be held to include all confirmed persons, residents within the Cure of any Clergy, who have not been suspended, or excommunicated or renounced their privilege by joining another body of Christians not in communion with this Diocese. SECTION 6. No Clergy shall remove the name of any confirmed person from the Register of Communicants unless such person be known to the said Clergy as having been transferred, by proper letter of transfer, to another congregation. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of all Clergy of this Diocese canonically resident without charge, to submit annually to the Bishop a report of their official acts. Where no official acts have been performed, a report to this effect shall be submitted. CANON 6 THE ORGANIZATION OF MISSIONS SECTION 1. Whenever twenty-five or more persons of whom at least fifteen shall be adult confirmed communicants in good standing, desire to be organized and recognized as a Mission, they shall make application to the Ecclesiastical Authority in writing. The written application shall Page 197 (Canons, cont’d) express their desire and promise of conformity to the Constitution and Canons, Doctrine, Discipline and Worship of the Episcopal Church, this Diocese, and the rules regulating such Missions. They may propose a name for the Mission and shall state the minimum amount each pledging unit will give for the support of the Mission and for the support of the work of the Diocese and National Church; provided, that they shall conform to the requirements of CANON 6, SECTIONS 2 and 3 when applicable. SECTION 2. If the Ecclesiastical Authority determines such organization expedient and upon the approval of the Diocesan Executive Council, the Ecclesiastical Authority, or a Priest under the direction of the Ecclesiastical Authority, shall appoint from among the members of the Mission, a Warden, who shall always be an adult confirmed communicant in good standing. The Ecclesiastical Authority or Priest shall also appoint a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other officers as may be necessary, and such officers shall be elected annually thereafter, on the Monday after the First Sunday in Advent, or some other day to be designated, upon two weeks notice given by the Priest-inCharge. Such officers shall hold office until their successors are elected. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the Warden to procure a suitable place of public worship, and to provide things necessary for decent and orderly Church services. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to collect or receive all contributions, and remit or disburse them, under the direction of the Ecclesiastical Authority. All accounts shall be maintained in conformity with the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese. SECTION 5. Missions so organized shall report to the Bishop through the Priest-in-Charge, or if there be none, through the Warden, in like form as Parishes. Failure on the part of a Mission to fulfill its Diocesan obligations for two successive years, or a decline in membership below the twenty-five persons required to organize the Mission, shall warrant the Ecclesiastical Authority in withdrawing the Priest and dissolving the organization. SECTION 6. A Mission may be established without the twenty five or more persons stipulated in SECTION 1 above if the Ecclesiastical Authority, with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, sees a need and deems the establishment of said Mission essential to the welfare of the targeted geographical area, and to the spreading of the Gospel in this Diocese. The Page 198 (Canons, cont’d) administrative organization and reporting procedures of Missions established under this Section will be decided by the Diocesan Executive Council. This decision will be made upon the establishment of each new Mission and will take into consideration the unique needs of each Mission thus established. Upon establishment of the Mission, the Convocation shall assist in the nurture and growth of the Mission into Parish status. SECTION 7. While a Mission should work toward parish status, it is recognized that some Missions may for pastoral or historic considerations be maintained in union with the Diocese even when Parish status is not foreseen within the reasonable future, but it is the responsibility of the Diocesan Executive Council to establish, evaluate, and if need be dissolve a Mission. SECTION 8. No congregation shall be dissolved without the concurrence of the Diocesan Convention. SECTION 9. Diocesan support of Missions will be a line item in each Diocesan budget with delineation of the funds allocated to each Mission by name. CANON 7 THE ORGANIZATION OF PARISHES SECTION 1. Any organized Mission which contains seventy-five adult confirmed communicants in good standing may make application in writing to the Ecclesiastical Authority giving a statement of its condition and prospect for maintaining such organization after the following requirements have been met: (a) It can provide in whole for the support of full-time Clergy or Lay leader(s) at or greater than the minimum Diocesan remuneration approved annually by the Diocesan Council, (b) It is able to provide its proportionate share of the support of the Diocese and National Church and has maintained financial self-sufficiency for a minimum of two years and, (c) It has, during those two years, undergone evaluation and consultation of its life and ministry by the Ecclesiastical Authority or Designee, (d) It desires to become an organized Parish, and (e) having obtained its consent, it shall adopt Articles of Association in the following form: Page 199 (Canons, cont’d) "We, the undersigned, assembled for the purpose of organizing a Parish of the Episcopal Church at ________________________ County of _____________________ of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, after due notice given, to be known by the name of ____________________ Church ________________ and such do hereby acknowledge, accede to and adopt the doctrine, discipline and worship, the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Constitution and Canons of the same Church in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, and do accordingly appoint A. B. and C. D. to be Wardens, E. F. G. H. J. K., etc to be vestry members of __________________________ Church; to continue in office until others be chosen in their places. "Witness our hands, this ___________ day _____________ , of the year of our Lord _______________________ A certified copy of these Articles of Association shall be laid before the Ecclesiastical Authority, by every congregation desiring to be recognized as part of the Church in this Diocese, and subject to the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction thereof. Any Parish so organized and recognized shall be an integral part of the Church in the Diocese, whether admitted into union with the Convention or not. SECTION 2. In forwarding to the Ecclesiastical Authority their application for permission to organize a new Parish, the petitioners shall enclose the written approval or disapproval of the Clergy or Lay Leader(s), the Vestry or the Vestries aforesaid, and if the Clergy or Lay Leaders(s) fail to give either, a certificate of that fact shall be forwarded to the Ecclesiastical Authority. SECTION 3. Whenever such organization is proposed within the bounds of existing congregation(s), they shall give due notice to the Clergy or Lay leaders thereof, or, if the congregation(s) be without Clergy or Lay leaders, to the Vestry(ies) or Mission Committee(s) of the same. CANON 8 PARISHES AND MISSIONS IN UNION WITH CONVENTION SECTION 1. A Parish shall be defined as a Congregation or Congregations that maintain all of the requirements as stated in Canon 6 Section 1 for the organization as a Parish, and as provided by Canon 8, Section 1. Page 200 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. An organized Mission shall be defined as a congregation which maintains the qualifications, as stated in Canon 9, Section 1. SECTION 3. Whenever any Parish or Mission shall apply to be admitted into union with the Convention, in addition to the constitutional requirements they shall present a certified copy of their Articles of Association, together with their application for admission. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of every Parish or Mission in union with the Convention to send Delegates to every Convention. Such Delegates shall present a certificate, signed by either the Rector, the Secretary of the Vestry, or one of the Wardens, in the following form: Diocese of Upper South Carolina Parish of _______________________ This is to certify that, at a meeting of the Congregation or Vestry of ________________ held on the ________day of __________ A.D. _________________ the following named confirmed communicants of the church were elected (or appointed) to represent the same in the ___________________ Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina to be held on the ______ day of ________________ A.D. . The following alternates were elected: ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________. (signed) Rector, Secretary, Warden. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of every Vestry to forward to the Secretary of the Convention, not later than six months prior to the Convention date, a certified list of the Delegates elected to represent their Church, in order to aid in preparing a list of members of the Convention. Page 201 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 9 CHANGING OF STATUS OF PARISHES, MISSIONS, AND CHURCHES SECTION 1. Failure on the part of a Parish to maintain the conditions for becoming a Parish shall warrant the Ecclesiastical Authority, with the approval of Convention, in placing said Parish in the status of Mission. Under such conditions the Ecclesiastical Authority shall have the right to appoint a Priest-in-Charge. SECTION 2. If any Parish or Mission shall have failed for three successive years to elect a Vestry (if a Parish) or to send Delegates to the Convention, or to make the reports required by the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, or the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese, such Parish or Mission may be considered dormant. SECTION 3. Parishes or Missions may be restored to union with the Convention or to their former status, by complying with the provisions of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, and the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the Ecclesiastical Authority to adopt the measures necessary to preserve the property of such Parishes or Missions as may be dormant. CANON 10 MISSIONARY WORK AND THE ARCHDEACON OF THE DIOCESE SECTION 1. The Bishop, who is responsible for the supervision and control of the Missionary Work of the Diocese, shall appoint all missionaries and may suspend or remove them. SECTION 2. The Bishop shall select and call the Archdeacon of the Diocese, if there is to be one. The duties and responsibilities of the Archdeacon in the Bishop's discretion, may include assisting the Bishop in the responsibilities for the Missionary Work of the Diocese. SECTION 3. The Bishop may also delegate to any appropriate Diocesan organization such supervision of the Missionary Work of the Diocese as the Bishop determines. Page 202 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 4. All Diocesan Missionaries and Wardens of Mission churches shall make a report on June 15 of each year to the Bishop or to the Archdeacon, if there is one and if the Bishop so elects, concerning the condition of each Mission Church and the progress of their work during the preceding twelve months. Treasurers of Mission Churches shall report to the same person on dates prescribed by that Authority, reporting the financial condition and state of the Mission Churches during the preceding period since the last such report. All reports herein required shall be on forms and in the manner approved by the Bishop. TITLE IX TRINITY CATHEDRAL PARISH CANON 1 CONCEPT OF A CATHEDRAL CHURCH SECTION 1. The Bishop and Convention of this Diocese adopt the concept of a Cathedral Church for the Diocese of Upper South Carolina to serve as a central or focal point for the administration and strengthening of the Diocese, and the Convention empowers the Bishop to designate Trinity Parish, Columbia, South Carolina, of this Diocese to be constituted a Cathedral Parish, in accordance with the provisions and requirements as set forth in this Canon. Upon such designation, said Parish Church shall become the Cathedral Church of the Diocese in accordance herewith. SECTION 2. Trinity Parish, when designated by the Bishop and constituted the Cathedral Church, shall be known as the "Trinity Cathedral Parish." CANON 2 TRINITY CATHEDRAL PARISH SECTION 1. Trinity Church, Columbia, herein designated as the Cathedral Parish wherein shall be located the Cathedral Church, shall not be deprived of any of the rights and privileges as provided by the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese, of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and under the charter and By-Laws of Trinity Church nor shall it be relieved of any of its obligations and responsibilities as a Parish unless specifically set forth in this Canon. The Cathedral Parish as a Parish of the Diocese and as a corporate body shall retain title to all Parish Page 203 (Canons, cont’d) property with full authority over and responsibility therefore, and as a Cathedral Parish shall have the same rights, representations, participation, obligations and responsibilities both in the Parish and in the Diocese as a Parish without Cathedral status. SECTION 2. The Vestry of the Cathedral Parish shall be elected and function as a Parish Vestry in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, with the exception that the Dean of the Cathedral shall be the Rector of the Cathedral Parish and the proper title of the Cathedral Parish shall be "Trinity Cathedral Parish" or "The Dean, Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Cathedral Parish." SECTION 3. When the office of Dean of Trinity Cathedral Parish is vacant, it shall be the duty of the Vestry to notify the Bishop of the fact, and also to elect and invite a Dean in accordance with and pursuant to the By-Laws of Trinity Church but not without due regard to the opinion and advice of the Bishop. CANON 3 THE DIOCESE AND THE CATHEDRAL SECTION 1. Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council, or a Committee thereof, shall meet with the Vestry of the Cathedral Parish in the event it is necessary at any time to resolve any questions which may have arisen between the Diocese and the Cathedral Parish. SECTION 2. Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council shall not have any power or jurisdiction over the administration of Trinity Cathedral Parish. SECTION 3. The Diocese shall be responsible for the expenses in connection with Diocesan functions, and for those portions of Diocesan or Cathedral properties regularly occupied as Diocesan offices and any other extra expenses incurred by the Cathedral Parish by reason of its serving as the Cathedral Parish of the Diocese which are beyond the normal expenses of a Church without Cathedral status. Page 204 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 4 SERVICES IN THE CATHEDRAL SECTION 1. The Bishop, upon due notice to and in consultation with the Dean, shall have the right to conduct services in the Cathedral Parish and set the norm of ceremony and ritual to be observed on such occasions. CANON 5 CANONS OF THE CATHEDRAL SECTION 1. The number of Canons Residentiary on the Staff of Trinity Cathedral Parish may be determined by the Vestry. Their titular designation may be determined by the Bishop after consultation with the Dean. SECTION 2. Honorary Canons may be appointed at the discretion of the Bishop. CANON 6 TERMINATION OF CATHEDRAL DESIGNATION SECTION 1. The designation of a Cathedral Parish and the consent and acceptance by a Parish of such designation are intended and expected to continue so long as both the Diocese and Parish exist. Nevertheless, either the Diocese or the Parish shall have the right to terminate this designation and to return said Cathedral Parish to Parish status through formal action of either the Bishop and Convention of the Diocese or the Congregation of the Cathedral Parish by giving one year's written notice thereof through formal action of either of said bodies. CANON 7 AMENDMENT SECTION 1. This Canon may be amended just as other Canons of the Diocese are amended except as to any matter affecting the authority, rights, representation, participation, obligations and/or responsibilities of the Cathedral Parish in the Diocese and in the General Church, Page 205 (Canons, cont’d) which amendments must be ratified and accepted by the Cathedral Parish acting through its duly authorized body before same shall become effective. TITLE X INSTITUTIONS CANON 1 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOR CHILDREN SECTION 1. The institution known as "The Episcopal Church Home for Children" (York Place) is hereby recognized and adopted as the Institution of this Diocese for the purpose of caring for children and families in need of its services. SECTION 2. The Episcopal Church Home for Children shall be managed and controlled by a Board consisting of twelve trustees, and the Bishops of the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of South Carolina and the Diocese of Upper South Carolina shall be ex-officio members of said board with full privileges. The twelve shall be elected as follows: (a) Four persons: one Lay member, one Clergy member, and two members who may be Clergy or Lay, for a three year term shall be elected each year by the Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina upon nomination by the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Church Home for Children. (b) No person who has served two successive terms of three years shall be eligible for reelection as a trustee, until the expiration of one year after the completion of such service; provided, however, the service of an unexpired term of office of two years shall be deemed, for purposes of eligibility, a full three year term. (c) Vacancies in the Board caused by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled by the Board until the next Convention. The Board shall nominate to the next Convention a person to any unexpired term. Page 206 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SECTION 1. The institution known as The University of the South, situated at Sewanee, Tennessee, is hereby recognized and adopted as an educational institution of the Diocese. SECTION 2. The Trustees of the said University shall consist of one Clergy and two Lay members. The vacancies shall be filled annually for a three year term. SECTION 3. The Diocesan Executive Council, upon nomination by the Bishop, shall fill any unexpired term or terms until the next Convention of the Diocese at which time a successor or successors shall be elected by the Convention to fill the unexpired term or terms. CANON 3 ST. MARY'S SCHOOL SECTION 1. The institution known as St. Mary's School situated at Raleigh, North Carolina, is hereby recognized and adopted as an educational institution of this Diocese. SECTION 2. The Bishop shall nominate to St. Mary's Board of Trustees one person, Clerical or Lay, to serve a five year term as a trustee from this Diocese to the said school. SECTION 3. The Diocesan Executive Council, upon nomination by the Bishop, shall fill any unexpired term until the next Convention of the Diocese at which time a successor shall be elected by the Convention to fill the unexpired term. CANON 4 KANUGA CONFERENCES INCORPORATED SECTION 1. The camp and conference center located at Kanuga near Hendersonville, North Carolina is hereby recognized and adopted as a camp and conference center related to this Diocese. Page 207 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. Membership on the Board of Directors shall be determined by the Constitution and By-Laws of the Kanuga Corporation. The Bishop of the Diocese shall serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors. SECTION 3. The Board of Directors shall make an annual report to each Diocesan Convention through the Executive Director. CANON 5 VOORHEES COLLEGE SECTION 1. Voorhees College situated in Denmark, South Carolina is hereby recognized and adopted as an institution of this Diocese as provided by the Resolution adopted by the Convention of the Diocese on January 21, 1925. SECTION 2. Voorhees College shall be managed and controlled by a Board of Trustees, the number which shall be determined by the By-Laws of Voorhees College. SECTION 3. The Bishop of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina shall be an ex-officio member of said Board with full privileges. SECTION 4. Two persons, Clergy or Lay, shall be elected to the Board of Trustees for a term of three years by the Convention of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina upon the nomination of the Trustees of Voorhees College. SECTION 5. No person who has served two successive terms of three years shall be eligible for re-election as a trustee until the expiration of one year after the completion of such service; provided, however, the service of an unexpired term of office of two years shall be deemed for purposes of eligibility a full three year term. SECTION 6. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees caused by death, resignation, or otherwise as related to the positions on the Board of Trustees held by this Diocese shall be filled by Board of Trustees until the next Convention, at which time the Board shall nominate to the Convention of the Diocese a person to fill such unexpired term. Page 208 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 6 HEATHWOOD HALL SCHOOL SECTION 1. Heathwood Hall Episcopal School was created as an eleemosynary corporation under the laws of the State of South Carolina by charter issued by the Secretary of State under date of March 31, 1951 and amended October 21, 1971 and is an institution of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina by virtue of the action of the special Diocesan Convention of September 15, 1950. SECTION 2. The school shall be under the management of a board composed of not more than thirty-five members, a majority of whom shall be Episcopalians and shall include three Episcopal Clergy and the Bishop of the Diocese, who shall be a member ex-officio. SECTION 3. The Board shall elect its own members whose election shall be ratified by the Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council, which shall have the power to take any action on behalf of the Diocese on any matter relating to Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. SECTION 4. The Board of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School as provided for herein shall adopt its own By-Laws and elect its own officers to accomplish the orderly transaction of its duties. CANON 7 STILL HOPES EPISCOPAL HOME SECTION 1. The institution known as "The South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes" is hereby recognized and adopted as an institution of this Diocese in conjunction with the Diocese of South Carolina. Six Directors to its Board of Directors shall be nominated by the Board of Directors of Still Hopes yearly for a three year term to be approved by the Bishop and confirmed by the Convention. Page 209 (Canons, cont’d) CANON 8 THE BISHOP GRAVATT CENTER SECTION 1. The institution known as “The Bishop Gravatt Center, Inc.” is recognized as an institution of the Diocese for the purpose of operating a camp and conference center and is subject to its Constitution and Canons. SECTION 2. The Bishop Gravatt Center, Inc. (the “Corporation”) shall have a Board of Trustees which shall control and manage the Corporation, promulgate its own by-laws and establish its own officers. The Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese or a designee shall be a member of said Board and one additional Trustee shall be an ordained clergy of the Diocese. At least 51% of the Trustees shall be adult confirmed communicants in good standing in parishes and missions of the Diocese. Upon election by the Board of Trustees, Trustees shall be confirmed by the Diocesan Bishop and the Diocesan Executive Council. TITLE XI GENERAL PROVISIONS ENACTMENT, ALTERATION AND REPEAL OF CANONS CANON 1 AMENDMENT SECTION 1. These Canons shall not be altered or amended, nor shall any new Canon be enacted, except at a stated Convention in the manner here provided. All proposals for new, altered or amended Canons shall be: (a) Submitted in writing to the Secretary of the Convention no less than sixty days prior to the commencement of the Convention for reference by the Secretary to the Committee on Constitution and Canons: (b) Read to the Convention prior to action by the Convention thereon; and (c) Approved by a two-thirds vote of those present at the Convention at which it is first presented or by a majority vote of those present if the identical proposal had been previously read to and considered by the immediate preceding Convention where less than two-thirds but at least a majority of those present voted to approve the proposal. Page 210 (Canons, cont’d) SECTION 2. All proposed Canons or amendments thereto receiving less than a two-thirds but at least a majority vote of those present at the Convention at which they are first presented shall automatically lie over for consideration and final action at the next Annual Convention. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ) CERTIFICATION OF CANONS COUNTY OF RICHLAND ) I certify that the foregoing CANONS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA are a true and accurate copy of such Canons as amended by the EIGHTY EIGTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA on October 15 through 16, 2010. ____________________________________ DAN HUNT, CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND CANONS EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA Page 211 Clergy Transitions 2010 New to Diocese Andrew Waldo (Eight Bishop of Upper South Carolina) Jeremy Blauvelt (Rector – St. John’s, Columbia) Roxanne Ruggles (Assistant – St. James, Greenville) Changes within Diocese Susan Hardaway (Priest-in-charge - Epiphany, Laurens) David Bridgforth (Long-term supply – St. George’s, Anderson) Furman Buchanan (Priest-in-charge – St. Peter’s, Greenville) Gordon Hamilton (Priest-in-charge, Christ Church, Lancaster) Philip Linder (Resigned as dean of the Cathedral) Caroline Goodkind (Resigned as rector of St. George’s, Anderson) Jeffrey Meadowcroft (Concluded his interim ministry at St. John’s, Hopkins) Retired Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr. (Seventh Bishop of Upper South Carolina) Eric Schnaufer (From St. Peter’s, Greenville) Mary Moore Roberson (From St. John’s, Columbia) Charlotte Waldrop (From All Saints’, Beech Island) Page 212 Clergy Transitions 2011 Clergy in new ministries Susan Prinz (St. Michael’s) Stephen Bolle (Trinity Cathedral) Scott Fleischer (St. John’s, Columbia) Sister Ellen Francis (All Saints’, Beech Island) Alice Haynes (York Place) David Wagner (St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Columbia) Halcott Carter (Advent, Spartanburg) Charles Jeremy Smith (St. Matthew’s, Spartanburg) Bob Chiles (Christ Church, Greenville) Keith Turbeville (Christ Church, Greenville) Tom DiMarco (Church of the Ridge, Trenton) Michael Bullock (Grace, Camden) Susan Heath (Trinity Cathedral) Dudley Thomas (St. Michael’s, Easley, Begins November 27) Susan Parlier (Canon for Diaconal Formation) Joseph Whitehurst (Canon for Liturgy) Fred Walters (St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields) Patricia Sexton (All Saints, Cayce) Letter of Agreement should be signed by convention Patricia Gotautas (Incarnation, Gaffney) Ennis Whiddon (Foothills Convocation) Al Hipp (Foothills Convocation) Dianna Deaderick (St. Luke’s, Columbia) John Zellner (St. Philip’s, Greenville) Letter of Agreement should be signed by convention Retirements Blaney Pridgen (St. Mary’s, Columbia) Charlie Foss (Our Saviour, Rock Hill) Georg Retzlaff (All Saints’, Cayce) Page 213 Postulants and Candidates for Holy Orders 2010 Postulants Priesthood Tom DiMarco (Sewanee) Gwin Hanahan (Lutheran Theological) Kellie Wilson (Lutheran Theological) Bruce LeFluer (Lutheran Theological) Bradley Carter Anne Jolly (Sewanee) John Bethell (General) Dan Wagner Diaconate Ennis Whiddon Debra Fulmer Mary Jeffers Patricia Gotautas Dianna Deaderick Charles Wilbanks Al Hipp Robert Chestnut Mary Jeffers Candidates Priesthood David Sibley (General) Page 214 Postulants and Candidates for Holy Orders 2011 Postulants Priesthood Kellie Wilson (Lutheran Theological) Bruce LeFluer (Lutheran Theological) Anne Jolly (Sewanee) John Bethell (General) Nicholas Roosevelt (Virginia) Dorian del Priore (Virginia) Dan Wagner (Sewanee) Mia McDowell Diaconate Linda Dolny Robert Chestnut Mary Jeffers Page 215
