Discernment and Ordination

• The Rev. Canon Whitney Rice, Discernment Coordinator ([email protected])
  Canon Whitney helps you navigate the discernment and ordination process both spiritually and logistically. Your first meeting after gaining the support of your priest is to meet with her to share your sense of call to ministry. She will guide and support you all the way through your discernment until your eventual placement in lay or ordained ministry.

• Jillian Smith, Executive Assistant to the Bishop ([email protected])
  Jillian is your partner in all things bureaucratic in the discernment process. You submit all of your forms to her electronically, and she keeps the checklist of all your steps as you complete them. She helps you navigate and complete the paperwork all the way through your ordination certificate.

• The Rev. Lu-Anne Conner, Chair of the Commission on Ministry ([email protected]org)
  Mother Lu-Anne is your diocesan discernment partner in this process. Just as you completed a season of discernment with your congregation in your Congregational Discernment Committee (CDC), you will work with the Commission on Ministry to continue to hone and refine your call to ministry throughout your process. Just as your CDC listened for God's call through community at the parish level, COM listens to that call through community at the diocesan level.

• Lynette Ballard, Chair of the Diocesan Board of Examining Chaplains ([email protected])
  Lyn is your partner for all things formation in the discernment and ordination process once you reach postulancy. As your call emerges, you will need to pursue education to equip you to fulfill it. That may take the form of a residential Episcopal Seminary, a local seminary such as Eden Theological Seminary, or hybrid in-person/distance learning through Bishop Kemper School for Ministry. Lyn helps you design your Formation Plan that will guide you through the education and equipping process.

Clergy:

• The Rev. Tom Albinson (2024)
  The Episcopal Church of St. Michael & St. George, Clayton
• The Rev. Barbi Click (2021)
  Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis
• The Rev. Lu-Anne Conner, Chair (2021)
  Transfiguration Episcopal Church, Lake St. Louis
• The Rev. Camie Dewey (2023)
  St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Creve Coeur
• The Rev. Paula Hartsfield (2022)
  Grace Episcopal Church, Jefferson City
• The Rev. Annette Joseph (2024)
  Christ Episcopal Church, Cape Girardeau
  and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sikeston

Lay:

• Rose Hayden (2023)
  Calvary Episcopal Church, Columbia
• Elizabeth Hines (2022)
  Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, University City
• Chris Kurth (2024)
  Grace Episcopal Church, Kirkwood
• Bren O'Connor (2023)
  Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis
• Mary Taylor (2022)
  Trinity Episcopal Church, Central West End / St. Louis
  
• DeWayne Trainer (2022)
  St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Ladue

• Lynnette Ballard (2023)
  Grace Episcopal Church, Kirkwood
• Dr. Michael Booker (2021)
  St. Francis Episcopal Church, Eureka
• The Rev. Dr. Maria Evans (2024)
  Christ Episcopal Church, Rolla
• Dr. Donna Hawk-Reinhard (2023)
  Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Lake St. Louis
• Elizabeth Hines (2022)
  Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, University City
• The Rev. Annette Joseph (2021)
  Christ Episcopal Church, Cape Girardeau
  and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sikeston
• The Rev. Susan Naylor (2024)
  Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis
• Bren O'Connor (2022)
  Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis