Episcopal Church Foundation Vestry Papers - for leading congregations

Recruiting Vestry Leaders

In the November Vital Practices Digest, we’re sharing five resources to help you prepare for and prayerfully recruit new leaders for your congregation’s vestry, bishop’s committee, or other leadership team. Our fifth resource is to help congregations strengthen their practice of year-round stewardship.

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1. Build a Healthy Vestry

“Build a Healthy Vestry” shares a process and additional resources for recruiting leaders through careful preparation, communication, and education at the beginning of the vestry nomination process.

2. Identifying & Recruiting New Leaders

“Identifying & Recruiting New Leaders” shares concrete steps in learning how to spot parishioners with good leadership potential and recruit them in a way that connects your values to theirs.

3. Sample Vestry Job Description

“Sample Vestry Job Description” offers a starting point when describing vestry members’ responsibilities and can be used as a template for creating one for your congregation.

4. Discerning Individual Gifts on the Vestry

“Discerning Individual Gifts on the Vestry” shares Biblically-grounded reflections to help facilitate conversations on the role and purpose of being on the vestry.

THIS MONTH IN YEAR-ROUND STEWARDSHIP

5. The Gift of Volunteers

“The Gift of Volunteers” offers a refresher on the stewardship and care of our leaders by reviewing our volunteer recruitment, training, and retention practices to ensure that these practices are supportive and uplifting.

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