June Update

June 2019.
The Search Committee has been meeting regularly since August of 2018. To date, several important phases of the search have been achieved successfully, including:

• Meeting with and receiving procedural guidance from our Diocesan Transition liaison, Canon Woodley
• Developing a Parish –wide Survey to solicit feedback, insight and suggestions from the St. Thomas Parish family
• Conducting several “Neighborhood Walks”
• Parish Summit, led by Canon Woodley to review Survey results and help build a Rector Profile

More recently, we have been developing a much needed Parish Profile, containing information that will become part of the Office of Transition Ministry (OTM) website submission, scheduled for early fall, 2019. Our June committee meeting was devoted to reviewing and editing a wide variety of topics for the OTM submission including: Church History, Town History, Education, Culture and Arts, Outreach, Governance, Demographics and “Our New Rector”. Collectively, these build a story about St. Thomas, Smithtown and living on Long Island, which future candidates use to help formulate their own decisions in their search for a new Ministry.
Our plan for the summer is to finalize the Parish Profile material and follow it through to the OTM submission process.

NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY JULY 10th

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