What is a Vestry?
In the Anglican tradition, the “Vestry” is what other churches might call a “church board.” It’s the leadership body responsible for the parish.
“Vestry” originally referred to the room in the church “in which the vestments, vessels, and other requisites for Divine worship are kept and in which the clergy robe.” However, since the Vestry was the room in which church business meetings took place, the word also came to mean “an elective body…composed of the rector and a group of elected parishioners administering the temporal affairs of the parish” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary).
In the Anglican tradition, the “Vestry” is what other churches might call a “church board.” It’s the leadership body responsible for the parish.
“Vestry” originally referred to the room in the church “in which the vestments, vessels, and other requisites for Divine worship are kept and in which the clergy robe.” However, since the Vestry was the room in which church business meetings took place, the word also came to mean “an elective body…composed of the rector and a group of elected parishioners administering the temporal affairs of the parish” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary).
Vestry Council
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Kristen Berthelotte, Senior Warden
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Paul Schurke, Junior Warden
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Kathy Wiernicki, Treasurer
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Jim Barnett, Clerk
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Vestry Members
David Allen - By Laws
Cory Greene, Formation
Luke Morgan, Formation
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Stacia Bontempo - Communications
Alden Gross, Worship
Chris Prender, Parish Life
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Marti Engstrom, Missions
Elizabeth Kopack, Stewardship
Susan Roberts, Neighborhoods
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Barbara Friedmann, Missions
Kathy Lang, Day School
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