Register for New Latino Ministries Directory (September 2008)
We are excited to announce that the Office for Latino/Hispanic Ministry and CDO’s Office for Transition Ministry have developed a bilingual Latino Ministries Directory as a great way for you to offer your gifts for ministry to the Church! This directory is also a tool which dioceses and congregations can use to assist in their discernment processes for calling clergy and lay professionals.
This easy-to-use online directory offers the following opportunities:
• To assist the deployment and calling of Latino/Hispanic ministers—lay and ordained—by making their skills and experiences known in Spanish and English.
• To promote the deployment and calling of Anglo clergy and lay ministers who are bilingual and/or who feel called to ministry with Latinos/ Hispanics;
• To enable registrants, both Latino/Hispanic and Anglo, to display their unique gifts for Latino/Hispanic ministry by providing another tool in addition to the CDO Profile.
• To provide a database on the ministry and skills of Latino/Hispanic ministers.
This is the first time and place where persons whose primary language is Spanish can make themselves known to bishops, transitions/deployment officers, and congregations in the Episcopal Church through a churchwide vehicle.
We encourage you to register and make known to the Church your leadership skills and experience. If you are a lay minister, you will first need authorization to register.
Click this link to download the form.
Click the appropriate link to get started:
• For English-speaking Clergy/Lay Ministers: www.netdirectories.com/~lmd/premenu.htm
• For Spanish-speaking Clergy/Lay Ministers: www.netdirectories.com/~lmd/premenus.htm
Fall 2008 DDO Training
The Fall DDO Training will take place on October 13-15, 2008, at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City.
NEW RESOURCE! Parish Calling Kit on CD
All publications included in the hardcopy “Parish Calling Kit” are now on an affordable, easy to download CD:
What is the CDO/How the System Works, Search, Prayer in the Calling Process, Interim Ministries Books I and II, Caring for Clergy in the Calling Process, Caring for Clergy through Compensation, How to Read a CDO Profile, John Doe and Sally Roe Sample Profiles, Interviewing in the Calling Process, Ministry Skill/Experience Manual, Called to Work Together, Living into our Ministries: the Mutual Ministry Cycle.
CDs can be ordered through CDO for $5.00/each with a 10% discount for 10 or more. These short publications are excellent resources for vestries and Search Committees just beginning the prayerful discernment and calling process.
Clergy Compensation Report (2006)
Dr. Matthew Price of the Church Pension Group has completed the Clergy Compensation Report for 2006 as of September 2007. Please see this 20-page informative report which lists: national as well as provincial and diocesan statistics; compensation by gender and position in comparative perspective; lay employees' compensation, and much more.
Download report (pdf).
Calling Clergy: a Spiritual and Practical Guide through the Search Process
by Elizabeth Rankin Geitz
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Deployment/Transitions Officer for the Diocese of New Jersey, Geitz offers guidelines for preparation of the parish profile and the work of the calling committee. Web-based appendix includes sample letters, questionnaire templates, a calendar wizard for meeting and itinerary planning, interviewing tips, and prayers and brief liturgies for use by committee members.
Rebecca McClain, Executive Director of Godly Play, says: "Elizabeth Geitz has written a remarkable pilgrims’ guide for congregations in transition… It is a wonderful and welcome new resource to every community in transition and is highly recommended by CDO."
Ordering information: $12/each with a 20% discount to parishes and dioceses. See the Church Publishing+ Seabury Books website at: www.churchpublishing.org/callingclergy or call (800) 242-1918.
 Discernment Process for Rectors/Vicars based on Calling Clergy by the Rev. Canon Elizabeth Geitz (Powerpoint presentation)
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Order online from the Church Publishing Company
Guide to Human Resources Practices
The Church Pension Group (CPG) recently published the 2nd Edition of a "Guide to Human Resources Practices for Lay Employees in Episcopal Churches." CDO is serving on a Task Force coordinated by the Office for Ministry Development, together with representatives from CPG, NNECA, CEPVA, B+E+S+T, NACED, and HR experts in the church workplace. We commend this excellent guide particularly to congregations and dioceses who work with justice, accountability, and legalties in church-related employment. $20.
Order from CPG
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