We seek a rector with collaborative leadership experience and a deep spiritual life. Our next rector will join with us in welcoming our visitors and also be willing and able to speak to the needs of parishioners in their daily lives. Our worship combines Episcopal liturgy in a low-church tradition with alternative prayers and interventions. The rector and assistant clergy collaborate closely with parishioners of all generations and genders who prepare the flowers and altar, help administer the Eucharist, deliver the prayers, and sometimes even preach. We aim to continue a tradition of sermons delivered by a rector with oratorical skill and theological depth who walks beside us boldly into God’s future.

In addition to fostering meaningful worship, strengthening and enlivening our fellowship is a central task.  We intend to be a community that creates opportunity for our members to come together in supportive fellowship and meaningful encounters with God and have been called to create additional worship, educational, and fellowship opportunities for our members. Lay leadership is an essential component of the Christ Church community. As a result, our future rector needs to be a skilled collaborator, able to support lay leaders and other staff members when they need. A Christ Church rector must be able to handle administrative as well as spiritual tasks. We are also led to connect more fully with our neighborhood, city, and region. We are not – and never have been – a community that faces only inward. God is leading us out into the world, and we intend to follow.