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Transition Committee Search Updates & Schedule

Walkabouts

In order to assist diocesan members in getting better acquainted with each nominee for bishop, a series of five “walkabouts”* have been scheduled throughout the Diocese from Monday-Friday, October 26-30. The walkabouts are designed to let voting delegates to the electing convention and other interested parties meet the nominees and ask them questions. The walkabouts will be scattered geographically throughout the diocese, at convenient parish sites. One of the walkabouts will take place at the clergy conference.

*"Walkabouts” are originally identified with Australian Aborigines who would spend six months in the wilderness in their adolescence as they journeyed to adulthood. Modern Christian spirituality has identified “Walkabouts” as a spiritual journey of discernment.

Walkabout Schedule

Portland Metro Area- Westside
Monday, October 26, 6:00 - 9:00pm, doors open at 5:45pm
St. John the Baptist/ Oregon Episcopal School
6300 SW Nichol Road
Portland, Oregon 97223
503.245.3777
Email the parish
Map

Southern
Tuesday, October 27, 6:00 - 9:00pm, doors open at 5:45pm
St. Mark
426 W 6th St.
Medford, Oregon 97501
541.773.3111
Email the parish
Map

South Coast
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 - 9:00pm, doors open at 5:45pm
Emmanuel
370 Market Ave.
Coos Bay, Oregon 97420
541.269.5829
Email the parish
Map

Central
Thursday, October 29, 6:00 - 9:00pm, doors open at 5:45pm
St. Thomas
1465 Coburg Road
Eugene, Oregon 97401
541.343.5241
Email the parish
Map

A Fall Gathering of Priests and Deacons
(at Oregon Garden Resort, Silverton)
Thursday, October 29 - 30
Meeting with nominees on Friday, October 30, Hour to be announced
Map

Portland Metro Area- Eastside
Friday, October 30, 6:00 - 9:00pm, doors open at 5:45pm
St. Aidan
17405 NE Glisan Street
Gresham, OR 97230/ Gresham, Oregon 97030
503.252.6128
Email the parish
Map

Questions for Nominees

Your Transition Team is following the guidelines established by the Episcopal Church in its handling of questions directed to the Nominees for Bishop. That structure dictates that the only appropriate forum and opportunity to ask questions of the Nominees will be during the walkabout. We want all delegates and other interested parties to hear all the responses, so we ask you respect the nominees and the process and not contact them individually. Consider this: no nominee should be distracted from his or her own professional responsibilities by issues and individuals here before the appointed time and place. They will be here and able to address your questions and concerns very soon.

Walkabouts are the opportunity to ask a question where all questions will be directed through a trained moderator. We would encourage you to think a question through in the Appreciative Inquiry format. We request that questions be submitted by 6:00pm on the date of the walkabout. If you need help with the phrasing of the question please contact a trained moderator from your convocation. Thanks so much for your interest and attention to this!

Electing Convention: 121st Diocesan Convention

Theme: “Jubilee”
Thursday, November 19- Saturday 21, 2009
The Hilton Hotel (adjacent to the Hult Center)
66 East 6th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
541.342.2000
Map

Balloting is scheduled to begin Friday morning, November 20.

Delegates to the 2009 Diocesan Convention are the delegates to the Electing Convention. More information on the Electing Convention will follow. All delegates will receive a convention packet from the Secretary of Convention (at the Diocesan Offices), which includes election details and information.Results of the Electing Convention will be placed immediately on the diocesan website following each ballot.

Consecration

April 10, 2010
Eugene, Oregon
More details to follow as they become available

Transition Committee Team Members

Consultant
• The Rev. Rob Voyle

Chaplain
• The Very Rev. Roy Coulter, Trinity Cathedral, Portland

Co-chairs
• The Rev. Mary Piper, St. Martin, Shady Cove
• Mr. John Davis, St. Thomas, Dallas

Communication
• Ms. Caprice Rosato, St. Thomas, Dallas
• The Rev. Scott Dolph, St. Aidan, Gresham (Sub-committee coordinator)
• The Rev. Deacon Beth Mallon, St. Francis of Assisi, Wilsonville

Staff Support
• Mrs. Sonja Miller, All Saints, Portland (Sub-committee coordinator)
• Mr. John Davis, St. Thomas, Dallas
• The Rev. Scott Dolph, St. Aidan, Gresham

Walkabouts
• Mrs. Edna Auld, St. Christopher, Port Orford (Sub-committee coordinator)
• Mr. John Ferris, Trinity, Ashland
• The Rev. Steve Tyson, Emmanuel, Coos Bay

Electing Convention
• The Rev. Steve Tyson, Emmanuel, Coos Bay
• Mr. John Ferris, Trinity, Ashland (Sub-committee coordinator)
• Ms. Caprice Rosato, St. Thomas, Dallas

Bishop-elect Support
• Mrs. Sonja Miller, All Saints, Portland (Sub-committee coordinator)
• Mrs. Edna Auld, St. Christopher, Port Orford
• The Rev. Mary Piper, St. Martin, Shady Cove

Consecration
• Mr. John Davis, St. Thomas, Dallas
• The Rev. Dn. Beth Mallon, St. Francis of Assisi, Wilsonville (Sub-committee coordinator)
• The Rev. Mary Piper, St. Martin, Shady Cove

Moderators

Moderators selected from each Convocation will collect, collate, rephrase (as necessary) and present (ask) questions to the nominees at each of the walkabout sessions. The Rev. Rob Voyle, our consultant, will help train these moderators in ways to extract the essence of the questions coming from the gathered participants (delegates, alternates and other interested parties), and to elicit the fullest possible answers from the nominees. Moderators should be people who possess good communication skills, people who are willing and able to attend the training (yet to be announced), and people who can remain reasonably objective during the discharge of this duty. Download a pdf of the moderator request letter to the Presidents and Deans of Diocese of Oregon Convocations.

Feedback

The members of the Bishop Transition Committee would love to hear from you. If you have a question, suggestion or concern, please email the Rev. Scott Dolph. Also, if you have questions for the candidates, please do not hesitate to contact us with those questions and we will do our best to make sure they get into the hands of the moderators at each walkabout site.