Clergy Resources - Deployment

The Office of Deployment assists congregations, agencies and the diocesan staff in finding suitable candidates for ministry positions.  This includes consulting with congregations on the search process for clergy leadership and on interim ministry and advising clergy on preparing for a new call.

Clergy Openings in the Diocese of Chicago

For additional Information about Clergy Deployment

activities, please contact:

The Rev. Canon Randall Warren

Canon for Deployment and Pastoral Care

rwarren@episcopalchicago.org

312-751-4209

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Elizabeth Erickson

Administrative Assistant for Deployment and Pastoral Care

312-751-4212

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The Rev. Canon Scott Hayashi

Canon to the Ordinary

312-751-4210

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Juleigh Ruby

Administrative Assistant for the Canon to the Ordinary

312-751-4214

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

A Guide to Calling a New Rector (2009)

Fresh Start is a diocesan-led program that seeks to foster healthy relationships

among clergy, their congregations and their dioceses during critical periods of transition. Encouraging open and honest discussion of transitional issues affecting both clergy and congregations, the program’s goal is to build a culture in which the mutual ministry of the clergy and congregation starts off on the right foot, enabling their new relationship to begin with a “Fresh Start”.

Making Excellent Disciples is a five-year pilot project which engages in clergy development. It is funded by endowment from the Lily Foundation.

• Guide new clergy into exercising effective ministry by giving them the tools and means to sustain pastoral excellence
• Renew, affirm and recognize the excellent ministry of mentoring clergy in order that it may be sustained and shared
• Lead, expand, enhance and sustain the inherent ministry within a vibrant, established congregation with growth potential
• Replicate and adapt the best practices of the established congregation in a nearby new congregation, thereby stimulating shared resources and congregational interconnection
• Sustain the ministerial and congregational mentoring process and institutionalize it within the Diocese of Chicago, to benefit pastors and congregations in an ongoing program

 The Rev. Canon Clarence Langdon (312-751-4205) is Diocesan Coordinator for the Fresh Start and Making Excellent Disciples programs.