Rector Search – 2022

Grace Episcopal Church is seeking our next Rector. If you are interested in this position, please review our Parish Profile [link to profile]. To view our Office of Transitions Ministries (OTM) profile, and to submit your resume and cover letter, please contact The Rev. Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, Canon for Transitions and Church Development, Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, at  carriesb@cnyepiscopal.org 

Search Process Overview

Rector search and transition is a multi-step process that begins with the vestry appointing a search committee. This is followed by a period of parish self-study to reconfirm the parish’s core values and ministries.  The results of the self-reflection are summarized in the parish profile, which provides a description of the parish, its history, goals for the future and what it seeks in a new rector.  The search committee then submits the parish profile and the OTM questionnaire to the Diocese.  With the posting of the approved parish profile on the parish website, the search for a new rector is officially open!  Interested candidates respond to the Diocese’s Office of Transition Ministries.  All candidates are screened first by the Diocese.  The search committee then reviews the vetted candidates and interviews finalists.  The Bishop also meets with the finalist candidates. The search committee recommends the selected candidate to the vestry.  The vestry votes to call the proposed candidate as rector and informs the Bishop.  After a letter of agreement has been signed, the rector-elect can be announced to the parish. 

Grace Church Rector Search – 2022 

The Vestry of Grace Church is restarting the search process begun in January 2020, building on the work completed in 2021 by the vestry-appointed search committee:  Jamal Adams, Kate Auwaerter (chair), Dan Bilow, Lou Clark, Mary Lou Clark, Shaniece Clark, Susan Keeter, and Ernestine Patterson.